New Britain herald., 1927-08-03

Sally Jerome, pretty and clever
 Is the prop and mainstay of he
 family in the absence of her fath
 CT. who has not lived with he
 mother for nine years. The famil,
 consists of Mrs. Jerome. the twins
 Beau and Millie. and Sally herself
 Mrs. Jerome enjoys poor health, st
 Sally does the housework morning.
 and office work for Mir. Peevey l afternoons. down town.
 In the flat below the Jeromes l lives young Ted Sloan, an automo.
 bile salesman who wants her tt marry him and keep on working
 But the only man in whom she if
 interested Is John Nye, whose req.
 estate office Is across the hall from
 MT. Peevey's. Nye hires Millie as his
 secretary and becomes blindly in fatuated with her. Sally is heartsick
 and unreasonably jealous.
 l Beau and Millie spend most of l their earnings on themselves. and | Sally's only real financial help is an 1 occasional check sent to Mrs. Je- rome by her absent husband. Every | now and then she is forced to bor- row from Aunt Emily Jerome, who is giving up school teaching to turn her old home into a wayside inn serving chicken dinners.
 Beau manages to get S110 from | Ted Sloan by means of two bad checks and Ted threatens to turn him over to the police. Sally bor- ! rows s1o0 from Mir. Peevey and gives if to Beau to pay his debt | with. But Beau uses the money to | elope with Mabel Wilmot. his jazzy, slangy little flancee. Upon their re- turn the newly married pair quarrel
 with Millie, who has turned Beau out of his bedroom in the flat. Millie's love affair with John Wye goes serenely on. She gives up all her other admirers for him, includ- i ing a man named Davidson. Sally meets Davidson at dance and he asks if he may come to see her. She !, tells him he cannot.
 | Aunt Emily plays peace-maker in l the family by having Beau and | Mabel at her house for a fall picnic on a Sunday when the others are to 1 be there. Mabel tells Sally sad 1 story of Beau's extravaganza, and 1 Sally lends her five dollars. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVI
 l Late that afternoon, when long.
 blue-gray shadows lay across Aunt l Emily's lawn. a big. brown car i drove in betw cen the gate-posts and came to q stop before the steps of | the house.
 "Why-it's John Nye." Sally cried, her wistful eyes on the tall. dark. goodlooking man who swung himself ont of 1t. Something. in her voice made Aunt Emily give her sharp, quick lcok before she trotted briskly away to welcome him.
 "So it is." drawled Millie, pulling herself up from the basket char where she had been taking quiet cat nap" He said last night he might drive out to get me today "He can take us ALL home and we won't have to ride the crowded street carl" Mrs. Jerome broke In eagerly. Before Millie could stop her she was halfway across the lawn, calling ont to him.
 "Oh, Mr. Nye. how nice of you I'll go right in and get my hat and be ready in minute!" She went up the steps with swiftness that she had not show in years.
 Mabel burst into a laugh. "Well, look at the old girl go, will you.' she giggled. "She sure can show some speed when she wants to, can't she?" Mabel probably never had read the Ten Commandments, and knew nothing about honoring her mother and father-or her mother in-law or anyone else, for that mat ter. She had no respect for anyone. really. She laughed again, and Beau laughed with her.
 Millie gave them blighting look. How can you laugh about a thing like that?" she asked bitterly. T think its terrible-wishins herself on him for a ride home! When she knows perfectly we'll that he came out for me and for nobody else.-1 could just shake her."
 Mabel, still giggling. turned to Beau. "Well, as long as your moth- CTS going to drive in with MT. Nye, you and I may as well go along, too," she said to him. Come on, darling"
 They jumped up from the grass where they had been sitting, hold ing hands. They were still in that blissful honeymoon state where they were not happy unless they were making love to each other.
 H1illie groaned, watching them cross the lawn with their arms link ed lovingly. They got into John Yves car as if they owned 1t.
 Isn't that tho pink limit Wish ing the whole family on him?" she appealed disgustedly to Sally. as she shook out her rumpled pink dress and fluffed up her tousled yellow