New Britain herald., 1927-07-27

Sally Jerome, pretty and clever, Is
 the prop and mainstay of her family
 In the absence of her father. who
 has not lived with her mother for
 nine years The family consists of
 Mrs. Jerome. the twins. Beau and
 Millie. and Sally herself. Mrs.
 Jerome enjoys poor health, so Sally does the homework mornings and office work afternoons for grouchy old MT. Peevey.
 In the flat below the Jeromes lives young Ted Sloan, an automobile salesman, who wants her to marry him and keep on working. But the only man in whom she is interested Is John Nye, whose real estate offices are just across the hall from Mir. l Peevey's.
 Nye hires Millie as his secretary. and as soon as Millie learns that his father Is the wealthy owner of the building she begins to play up to him. He becomes blindly infatuated with her and Sally is jealous and heart sick.
 | Beau and Mabel spend most of their money on themselves and rare ly give Sally anything for the up- 1 keep of the house. Her only real f- | nancial aid is an occasional check from her absent father. and every | now and then she borrows some money from her Aunt Emily Jerome. Beau suddenly blossoms out with | f1o ohNy r1 0fh eyy,ttor ] other luxuries. Sally is instantly sus- picious. for Beau not only works in bank. but was light fingered besides, as a little boy.
 l The crisis comes on a Saturday night, when Ted Sloan, angry with Sally because of her coldness to- wards him, tells her that Beau got more than s100 from him by means of a bad check. Sally borrows the l money to pay him back from Mir. Peevey. She gives it to Beau to take to Ted late at night, but Beau keeps it instead, and elopes with his girl. Mabel Wilmot, leaving a note be- hind advising Sally "to fix things up With Ted" Millie's counsel to vamp" Ted and coax him to tear up the ] bad checks disgusts Sally.
 (NOW GO ON WITH THE sTORY) CHAPTER xxx Sleep played e-and-seek| Sally Jerome that night until the wee small hour of three. Then, just as she was dozing off, l the slow, soft voice of Millie came from the darkness on the other side of the room, and wakened her.
 Its too bad I'm not the one that l Ted Sloan Hkes,' she drawled. /, Isn't it?"
 "Why?' asked Sally after a min- ute.
 Because it wouldn't be any trou- ble to me to get those checks away from him." the young siren ex- plained. "I'd just tell him that if he cared about me he'd tear them up and forget them, Why don't you tell him that? He's so crazy about you that he'd do it if you asked him-in the right way"
 There was a long. heavy silence, and then Sally spoke:
 T couldn't take advantage of his liking me. Millie."
 The other girl laughed. You sure are Daff" she said serenely. You'll never get to first base in this world with ideas like that, Sally. =. What do you suppose q girl has looks for except to make some man do the things she wants him 10 do? And there isn't much use in having Ted Sloan crazy about you, unless you can make him tear up the checks or give them to you. I bet could make him do it, believe you mel"
 In the shrouding darkness Sally shook her head, and her little chin set itself firmly. "The only decent thing to do is to give Ted the money that Beau got from him--and it was more than s1oo. Millie. It was a hundred and ten.'
 For a second she was tempted to tell her the whole story. How she had gone to MT. Peevey for loan. How she owed him hundred dol lars now in addition to the s11O that Beau owed Ted Sloan-the s110 that she would have to pay, as she knew full well.
 Two hundred and ten dollars." she groaned to herself '1'll never get it paid. Never.' It was no wonder that she had hard time getting to sleep that night.
 Her last troubled thought was how to tell her mother about Beau's elopement the next morning.
 Five hours later she was awak- ened by Mrs. Jerome herself. She was shaking her by one shoulder and telling her loudly that it was after 8 o'clock.
 Mrs. Jerome was one of those early-rising people who want coffee the minute trey open their eyes in the morning. She always said that it gave her a sick headache 10 lie awake with an empty stomach.