New Britain herald., 1927-08-09

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 Every now and then she would look steathily up at John Nye-at his fine, dark head, his jutting, ar- rogant nose, and the straightness of i his broad back as he sat at his desk.
 How under the sun can Millie even look at a man like Davidson when she can have man like this?" She put the question to her. self a hundred times during that first week.
 She wondered. too, how Millie could cold bloodedly plan to marry John Nye for his money when he. himself was so attractive. So much of man.
 "Why, any girl should be glad and proud to marry him if he didn't | have one cent to rub up against another,' she told herself.
 Every day John Nye called at the | hospital, and every night when | Sally went there there were fresh flowers in the tall glass vases, and baskets of dainties that the special nurse ate and passed around to the other nurses.
 For Millie would eat nothing. She 1 drank a little milk three times 6 day and refused all other food. She i said she wasn't hungry and Dr. Ambleside began to worry about her.
 She's not getting along as we'll as I'd hoped" he told Sally one night when be happened to come in while she was there. She won't eat"
 T don't want to eat," Millie told | him grossly. She didn't want to be propped up in bed, either, and she l had refused steadfastly to see any, 1 body but her mother and Sally. To them she talked very little. I'm ! tired" was all she would say. T 1 want to be ley alone"
 Sally worried not only about her, | but about the money that John Nye was paying out for the room and the bath and the special nurse and all the rest of it.
 | On Saturday noon John Wye came over and stood beside her desk. She i could see him out of the corner of l her eye. but she did not look up until he spoke to her. She , ad a piece of paper before her and she was making list of her expenses 1 for the week on it-so much for groceries, so much for milk. so much for the rent. She was always trying to get together the money for the rent, it seemed to her.
 She laid her hand over the paper now and turned to look up at John.
 Something in his face told her that he had seen the pathetic little list
 Here's Milie's check. Perhaps she'd like to haze it," he said grave ly. '1'd take it to her myself, but she doesn't seem to want 10 see me-"
 Then he cleared his throat and laid q second check before her on the desk.
 "1ou've been so good to me - I though perhaps you'd let me give you this one" he went on, and looking down at it Sally saw that it was made out for $25.
 But I've just done Nllie's work, and that's paid for" she was be- ginning, when he stopped her.
 No, no. You've done more work than Millie ever did for me-" he said ill his nice, quick way" and yesterday when I was tied up with those men from out of town you brought me that lunch"
 Anyone would have done that" replied Sally, flush rising to her cheeks and her eyes darkening. "I saw that you weren't going to have time to go out before they came. l won't keep this check"
 She stood up and held it out to him.
 You've done so much for us now that I'm ashamed whenever l think of it," she said softly, huskily. Paying for Millie's room and get ting q nurse for her when you knew we couldn't afford one-an- all those flowers-and now this."
 She looked at the check again, and suddenly. surprisingly, she be- gan to cry.
 He stopped and put his arms around her exactly as he might have put his arms around hurt child, comforting her. He stroked her Lair.
 In his arms she was very sweet and cool and fresh. She had none of the perfume, none of the cuddling, nesting softress of Millie She was like an armful of apple blossoms. picked early in the morning with the dew on them.
 And then she pulled herself away from him and, still crying, ran out Of the office.
 On the floor at his feet lay the check he had given her. l was in two pieces. She had torn it up!
 He stood looking at the two bits of pale-blue paper for a full n n-inute. Then he stopped, picked them up, and put them both in his bill-fold.
 All day the feeling of Sally in his arms stayed with him. It went with him to the florists shop. where he bought quantities of yellow roses to be sent to A!illie at the hospital. It followed him to the Country Club, where he played IS holes of golf under a sky that was like white and blue Chinese cloisonne. and it was still with him when he smoked his bedtime pipe that night.
 "I had funny experience today" he said to his father as they sat side by side before a fragrant wood fire in the house with the green shut ters. And then he went on to tell him about Sally and the check she had torn up.
 "There's not one woman in a hun dred would have done that" an-