New Britain herald., 1927-05-28

The looked down into the two young faces
fdently raised to his and smiled reluctantly.
oh go on with yer blaney, Miss For you I'll let him
off this time but if | catch him at it again I'll him in.
THANK you, Mr.. Of,cer-have a smoker" Phls hand
thrust in his great coat and out with ornate
gold case which he held open to the policeman
NO. thank you, my lad. l don't smoke cigarettes and
you should not either the officer said gy as he stepped
from the roadster running board mounted his motorcycle
and rode off down the street.
Mrs Tracy stepped back from the window. She Won
dered if Phil was going to bring Aatee Jones She
dered he had forgotten that she had told him that today
when he would get his long delayed roadster she had ar
ranged to with him to Arrowhead for dinner She
dered when Phil had taken up Natlee again. >,
Ever since her Phil nine years old and Natlee
Jones was eight they had had periods when they in
separabe and periods when they had apparently forgotten
From time to time Pills attention would wander and
during this last year Of high school when he had been try
ing to do two years in his entire attention had been
taken up with athletics and his studies.
She had noticed this with great pleasure and had told
herself that next year when he would be in college he would
probably completely break off any silly intimacy that he had
with his childhood playmate.
Naee Jones! whose father kept dairy Why Phil
had first her when she sitting the front seat of
milk wagon driven by her father who sometimes even
although he had rich delivered milk himself!
Surely this girl was not the sort that Phillip Wynne
Tracy ~ should be driving about with in his roadster
which had been ordered for him just before Christmas with
the proviso that he to make condition in time
to enter the spring term at college.
LER thoughts interrupted by the noisy entrance Of
feIeS Nal mum, he announced as III the 1act ala not
need explanation. A quick glance from the girl how
ever, seemed to say that she knew better.
81 did not want to come. Mrs. Tracy"
Oh, shut up Nat, don't have to be polite Mother,
what's got into YOU? Whenever you Naee lately
YOU make her feel like punctured balloon"
"Phiip.' "Wynne."--his mother and Natee both used
the name by which they called him in unison.
well, Nat said the boy in grieved tones, You know
YOU told me she did,
g" am sorry if make Miss Natlee uncomfortable said
Mrs Tracy in her most formal manner. Il do not
to do So
There you 60 Mum-that's just what | am trying to
tell YOU You never hghhatted Nat before and that's what
makes her feel it now
81 sure, Phil had intention originating (as
YOU call m Miss Natee, but you must remember that you
two are growing up and it is time that your childish
familiarity should be put upon conventional basis
The moment after Anne Tracy had said this she
sorry for gancng at the clever little face before her. with
its pointed aggressive chin and curositaden eyes, she
knew that by calling attention to the thing she would have
avoided she put into the quick brain of Natee Jones
thing that had not been there before She had in
ment erased from the girls mind all the childish innocence
which until had characterized her youthful friend
ship with Phillip and had placed in her mind seconscious-
Phillip slower and obtuse, evidently did not realize
this for he demonstrated vehenenty when his mother said:
"Wel take off your coats children I'll order dinner the
table shortly