New Britain herald., 1927-09-14


 looking for" she added, after a moment. T put f lip myself a cou- ple of months ago. and it's about IS harmful IS milk. There's some cherry bounce. too, in tho cellar way. Take q look at that too. if it'll make you feel asy better" She was ,uriously angry, and her tone hoWed +.
 The two men went donN into the basement without q Hord 10 her. Then they camc upstairs again, and vanished into tfe front part of 'ne house. Sally, filing cream jugs, renrd their heavy feet going up the stairs. and shot 2 quick look at Aunt Elm. T. would he ius' like Aunt Elm 10 go racing after them. to try 70 stop them.
 Rl- har facn was blank. as she bent over the two blg frying pans that sizzlef noisily. r was clear that she had not heard inc footsteps on the stairs.
 Are those two mon gone yet? she asked Sally after four or five minutes. Hor voice still shook with righteous anger.
 Sally said she would eo and find out. Sh" reached the hall in tim" 10 mcct the two men who had just come do~ stairs and n"re on their way to th" front door that stood open to fh@ halmy fall night.
 "Well did you find what you were looking for"" she asked them brightly. and they both shook their heads with q kind of eepishness.
 They went out. The sound Of their chugeing no'orcvcles dl-d away on the soft. still air.
 Sally stood in the Ioor7a av. listen ing 10 the faint sound, and then 70 the chirp Of the crickats in the grass near the porch. She felt disgraced, somc hou. Terribly disgracnd. To think of thA house being search ri by the police. T. 1as too de grading.
 As f we had still. CT were bootleggors Or worse" she said 70 herself. and waves Of shame went over her again and again. Pack in the hot kitchen Aunt Elm vas still frying chicken. She did not look up when Sally came into the room with q large tray of soiled dishes, and Sally did not look at her.
 All evening long they avoided each others eyes. and they seldom spoke. Both of them were sunk in their own thoughts. and their sol omn. drawn faces showed how dark those thoughts were.
 Al 10 o'clock. when the dining room vas empty. and tho dishes were done. and Hilda nas putting them neatly on the cupboard shelves Aunt Elm went out to the front porch and called Sally 10 follow her.
 When Sally vent out, she ras sitting on the top steps with her hands locked around her knees. staring out into the darkness.
 "Sit down. she said. in a muffled voice and Sally. dropping down be- side her. saw that she was crying.
 This is just the last h-b-low" she said in a chokcd and angry voice. When Aunt Elm cried, she did not do if in sohbinS. crushed sort Of way. but angrily, dcfiantly. furiously.
 ITO have my house raided!" she cried. Wipine her eyes. This is the cnd. I'll close the place up tomor- row" She dabbcd at her eyes with her handkerchief. II was an angry quick movement
 Was if as bad as all that ." asked Sally. who always thought of a raid or roadhouse as being a very ex- citing affair, with bottles being smashed and people being rushed off 10 lail in the Black Maria.
 AS bad as all what 2" asked Aunt Emily, shortly. Tt couldn't have Teen worse. could if? Police walking right into my dining room. among my guests, You don't think I'm going to keep on in business here after disgrace like that. do you? ?'
 Sally saw then that she felt ex- actly as she. herself. fclt-that both of them had been hopclcssly be- smirched and deeply diseraced by the visit of thn two policemen. and tho search of tho house.
 "No, I'm going to give it all up- tomorrow" Aunt Elm said again, Hnd there was firm intent in her tones.
 She went upstairs 70 bed
 Sally vas still sitting on the top step. watching the clouds sail across the rcd autumn moon when Ted Sloan's little car came tearing up tho driveway.
 She knew it was Ted's car tho in stant she saw il. For one of it's hood lights was green and the other was yellow. and besides that. it had a peculiar Wh"ezo and rattl" of its own. T. vas like Tcd-fast and cheap and showy But Sally had never thought of that.
 IL stopped bolor" the steps, and Ted got out. Instantly Sally was on her feet. Shc did not intend to sit ont her" in the romantic moon light, with Theodore Sloan al this lonely horr Of the night. Not by any mcans