New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
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Y Do you want me to stay?" aske'
 Davidson's voice from the doorway and she turned quickly. Shs hat
 forgotten that he was there.
 T don't think so." she said slow
 ly, and started back to say goot
 night to him. My fathers i'll ant
 he's sent for my mother" She stood
 beside him in the warm breathing
 darkness of the June night, just
 outside the front door of the
 ecuse.
 T imagine there aren't any good
 trains at this time of night, any
 way" she went on quietly. "Ill
 telephone the railroad station and find out when the next train south goes. Then I'll wake my mother up in plenty of time to get it. There's no use in getting her up now to worry all night, is there?"
 She didn't not expect an answer. and Davidson did not give her one.
 Sally. you're wonderful little girl" he said solemnly. You take care of everybody, don't you? And you're so little, and young. and sweet" And then, as If her little ness and youth and sweetness, com- | bined, were too much for him, he abruptly swept her into his arms and kissed her. holding her 50 tight that she cried out in fury and pain.
 She leaned back in his arms as far as she could, and brought her small, hard fist, down upon his face. He turned his head to escape the blow and it caught him neatly upon the cheek bone.
 He laughed as he let her so. Sally, you'll be sorry for that, some day." he told her, his breath coming unevenly. He started down the wide steps that led to the moonlit driveway. "I'll call you up tomorrow morning."
 Don't waste your money and your nickel, because I won't talk to you!" Sally flung at him as she ran into the house. still trembling with rage and excitement.
 For the third time that night she started up the stairs.
 There was light in the upper hall, and at the top of the flight sat Millie, with her little pink night gown drawn around her knees, and her face bright with malice.
 T heard everything." she said triumphantly. You're fine kind of a sister. aren't you? Doing your best to take Davy Davidson away from me when you know I'm wild about him."
 What did you hear?" asked much or you'd know that I'm not trying to take him away from you. just slapped his face for him. Did you hear that?" 4
 NIillie got up from the top step and followed her into her bedroom at the back of the house. It was a very plain. neat bedroom. without any of the spilled powder and soil l ed silk cushions and knick-knacks that made Millie's room ''so femi- nine," as Mrs. Jerome described it.
 If you slapped his face, you did it because you knew it would rouse his interest in you" she said freez- ingly. Just as you figured 1t out | that the way to make a home-run with John Nye was to feed him sandwiches and work overtime for him. Miss Kress has told me what l q play you made for him when l was sick in the hospital"
 Sally felt sea-sick and dizzy as she listened. Had it been so plain, then-her feeling for John Nye- that even the near-sighted Miss Kress had seen it?
 Even Johnny, himself. had to laugh about the things you did, Millie went on. in a voice that was as soft as the sound of sharp knife cutting through yard Of silk. She turned on her little pink heels l and went out, leaving a white-faced, trembling Sally staring at her own shamed reflection in the toilet glass.
 4hIS. JtIOllle tldll lcll Lue ucAI morning at ten minutes past 6.
 Aunt Elm took her to the station in the car, and Sally stayed behind to get breakfast for Millie and Mabel and Beau.
 "Ill telegraph as soon as I know how your Papa is," Mrs. Jerome told Sally, who had lost her bloom- ing look and had faint violet marks under her eyes as if she had cried | half the night.
 And if I'm going to stay away l long, you can pack my trunk and l send it on to me-" she went on giv- ing directions. And I need some new stockings. Outside ones. And I promised Millie you'd give her some money for new hat next Saturday. So please do."
 But Millie said nothing that day about new hat. She said nothing about anything at all. She had stopped speaking to Sally. as she always did when the two of them lad had words over anything. She was sulking.