New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-07-30

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across the cleaning white cloth
But he barely touched 1t to his lips
Beau turned to Mabel unsteadtly
and threw an arm around her. look.
ing down at her as II she were the
most beautiful and precious bit OF
human flesh that ever had held the
spark Of life.
isn't she wonderful?" he asked
proudly. Isn't she the sweetest,
loveliest Ill wife that ever VAST"
"Oh. Beau" sighed Mabel. grim
ming up at him with her head
thrown back against her shoulder,
You're so F. o. B.-Full Of boloney,
what ! mean"
She laughed wildly, and Beau
laughed with her. They stood there,
side by side. swaying back and
forth dizzily.
Mile was looking daggers at
them from her side Of the table.
Her small face, usually 80 adorably
and softly feminine. was as hard as
flint. Her little hands were clenched
before her so tightly that the
knuckles showed white and shiny.
will you please sit down and eat
your supper" she asked them cold
ly. She sent Sally a look Of frantic
appeal.
"Oh. can't you get them out Of
ta
plainly as any words.
But Sally was helpless, and she
knew it. She knew. besides. that the
only thing to do was to pass the
whole affair off as naturally as pos
sible. To act as If 1t were quite
ordinary for a bride and groom to
take three or four drinks too many
on their nuptial day, and come
bursting in on a supper-table, full
Of slang and boisterousness.
She never forgot that awful meal,
and yet 1t was all confusion In her
! mind at the time. The only
clear thing to her was John Nye's
dark handsome face across the
table. His face, puzzled, amused,
and yet curiously gentle whenever
he met her eyes.
At ten o'clock Mabel collapsed,
either from excitment or drink. Sally
put her to bed in the room that had
belonged to Beau. and did her best
to make Beau go to bed, too.
But, AS Mile said afterward.
Beau was wound up" for the eve
ming and refused to bulge. He stay
ed in the living-room that Sally had
made attractive with flowers and
lamplight, and had a long heart-to-
heart talk with John Nye.
Glad to have sawn you," he said
cheerfully to him as he finally rose
to 20 to bed, I'll come up and see
you some day in your office, II you
don't mind"
He laughed thickly. "Probably
borrow little money from you.'
he added, I'm a great lii borrow
er, I am. Never seem to have
enough money to go round some
how-You know how it is-And
figure that there's no use having
friends unless you can borrow from
them every now and then" He
would have gone on talking endless
~, but Sally linked her arm in his
and carried him off with her.
You're thick-tongued. old boy.
and talking through your hat" he
said to him lightly. But she could
have cried instead, she was SO
ashamed of him.
He stopped in the dining-room
long enough to empty the glasses
that neither she nor John Nye had
touched, and then staggered on to
his room.
And so it happened that Beau and
Mabel started their married life In
the flat just as they had planned to
after all!
II could just cry!" Mile walled
tragically, an hour later, after John
Nye and Ted had gone, and she
and Sally were alone in their old
room.
"Oh, wasn't 1t terrible? Those two
coming in pie-eyed the way they
did. And did you ever hear anyone
talk like Mabel before in your life!
Why, she talks like a street-Arab!
oh, what will John Nye think of
us? And ] did so want him to see
us at our best. and instead Of that
Words failed her and she gave
a deep, long groan of utter despair.
II wouldn't worry SO much about
it. dear" Sally said to her. doing
her best to be comforting. John
Nye looks as if he had pretty good
sense, and he proba bly, realizes that
Mabel's Just little smart-aleck, and
that Beau isr't used to drink, and