New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-01
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mirror, Don't you think we ough
to go and ask Beau and Mabel t
stay here for few days until the
, find place of their own? They'r
so hurt because you packed VI
Beaus things. They think we don
want them here"
"Wen, we DON'T. replied Mile
who was as hard headed as she wa
soft-eyed. "You know that if W,
ever let them get foothold here
| they'll stay forever. You know
that's what they're looking for
for us to ask them to stay on fol-
a while. Wait! I'll go and tell then
Il thing or two"
"Oh. don't.'-Sally flung out ar
arm TO stop her. But like a flasf
Millie was down the narrow hal
that led to the dining room.
whats the matter with vol
two" Sally heard her ask The
honeyniooners. and her voice was
rs soft as usual. aren't you salts.
fled with disgracing me the way you
did last night before John Nye
without kicking up another rumpus
this morning? What is it you want
anyway?'
Instead Of answering her question
Mabel looked hcr up and down
slowly and insolently.
disgrace you" she repeated, In
mock surprise. 'Why, how could
anyone disgrace you before man
Mllie Jerome? Any man who
knows you knows all about you!
You're a disgrace yourself, and you
knew it as well as I do"
To Sally's astonishmeht, Millie
Redeemed under the singing words
and did not say a word in answer
Instead, she swung on her heel and
walked deliberately back to her
room, closing her door gently be-
hind her.
1t seemed that Mile was afraid
to go on with the battle. There was
no other way of explaining her be-
havior.
All morning long Sally thought
the thing over, when she was alone
in the fiat, washing up last nights
dishes, changing the linen on
Boau's bed, making a plate OF to-
mato sandwiches to leave in the ice
box in case her mother should come
home before night.
Mabel's words came back to her
again and again. What did she
know about Millie that had made
her say thing like that: amy man
knows all about you?'
What did it mean? What
disgraccful thing could John Nye.
for instance, know about Mile?
Why, she didn't even smoke a cigar
cite before him. or touch a drop OF
anything intoxicating. And she had
tibbcd to him about Mrs. Sloan's
pink asters. in order to make him
think that she was the sweet, simple
type of girl who would find pleasure
in a little garden.
Perhaps, then, Mabel knew things
about her that nobody else knew!
Things that Sally did not know, and
that John Nye did not know. After
all she and Mabel had worked side
by side in Bursall's big office for
months. They had known each
other very, very we'll, indeed.
And what was it Mabel had once
OF,
stay in an office unless there's
somebody there that gives her
thrill" That was it,"
Sally sighed as she dressed for
the office at II o'clock. 1t
came to her that her little sister
who had helped her make mudpies
in long ago days had become almost
a stranger t. her.
II don't know thing about her
except that she likes good clothes,
a good time and lots of men
friends" Sally went on thinking,
walking along under cloudless
blue sky. fifteen minutes later.
Then another thought struck her,
Miles men friends had sud-
denly vanished into thin air. They
no longer called on the telephone
every hour of every evening.
For the last month Mile had
seen none OF them, talked of none
of them, except John Nyc. He alone
held the field
1T certainly looks as if Mile had
settled down at last" Sally decided,
and felt more unhappy than before.
But I wish she had picked DAY.
idson or somebody else
Anybody hut John Nyc. was what
she meant. Anybody but him.
That night Mile stayed down
town to have dinner with John Nye.
She came fluttering into Mr..
Peevcy's office with the news at
O'Clock, when Sally was putting on
her hat to go home.
Il thought he'd never want 10 see
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