New Britain herald., 1927-07-21

the prop and mainstay of her fam
| lily 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
| the apple Of his mothers eye, and
/ Millie, young siren, and Sally her
self. Mrs. Jerome enjoys poor health
so Sally does the homework morn
! ings and office work for Mr.. Pee
vcy downtown afternoons.
In the flat below the Jeromes
lives young Ted Sloan, an auto
salesman, who wants Sally to marry
| him and keep on working. But the
is John Nye, whose offices are
across the hall from Mr.. Peevey's.
Nye hires the flirtatious Mile to
work for him as his secretary, but
leaves town Unexpectedly the day
she starts. Mile promises to wait
until he returns, and adds that she
needs little rest.
She takes no salary from Nye for
this period, but borrows from Sally.
So does Beau who works in a bank
for small salary. Finally Sally,
FLAT broke" goes to her Aunt En-
lily Jerome for some money. but
Aunt Emily plans to go into the tea
house business and needs all she
has.
Then Beau suddenly blossoms out
wifi Il; C,I
begins to suspicion him. especially
as he has never been too honest.
Ted Sloan says he gave him a check
for SO, but Sally knows Beau had
more than that, although he refused
to pay for party given at the flat
by his girl. Mabel Wilmot.
Nyo returns and Mile starts
work for him. When she learns that
his father owns the Nye-Naylor
building she begins to play up to
him, and he seems to fall in love
with her On a Saturday afternoon
Mille leaves her mother, desperate
ly sick in the flat, and goes out to
meet him. Sally comes home and
calls a doctor.
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CHAPTER XIV
Aunt Emily came popping into
the flat that night between s and
9.
II Just had a feeling that some
thing was wrong here" she said to
Sally when she heard about Mrs.
Jerome's attack.
Aunt Emily had most uncanny
way of suspecting when things were
not going smoothly with the Je-
une, and she could scent bad luck
from afar-the way some people
can tell when storm is coming.
you wouldn't be sick like this II
you weren't so lazy, and didn't make
such pig of yourself at meals, :"
she snapped at her sister-in -law
when she went in to see her.
Mrs Jerome only groaned and
turned her face to the wall. She was
no match for Aunt Emily, and she
had sense enough to know it.
Eyes, and you can groan and
moan and all but ask me to get
out" went on Aunt Emily, with a
nod Of her head. But I'm not go
ing until I've said my say-and !
tell you that you're going to die in
one of these attacks some day I'M
less you stop over-eating the way
You do"
Mrs. Jerome rolled over in bed
and turned up beseeching eyes to
Sally. Must l listen to all this 2"
she asked, helplessly. Cant you
get her out and make her stay out?
I'm too sick to listen to her"
you hate to hear the truth -
that's all that ails ,you!" was Aunt
Emily's parting shot.
But later, when smart young DR..
Amblerside came, he said much the
same thing that Aunt Emily had
said.
She has another of her attacks
Of acute indigestion-at least, that
how 1t looks to me-" he told the
stiiAiouo hoiiS. VIC pttit tcilllS Iltl
for years that she eats too much
and doesn't move around enough"
Mrs. Jerome gazed at him silently.
There was intense fury in her face
and she did not say Goodnight" to
him when he left. She hated to be
told that she ate too much.
You don't look so we'll yourself"
the doctor told Sally on his way
out, bag and hat in hand. over
working, aren't you?"
Sally shook her head as she look
ed at him. Her blue eyes We're
clouded with the heat, her face was
white under the soft damp rings of
her hair.
Indeed I'm not" she said. "You
see, l only work a halliday down
town. I'm Just around home the
rest of the time"
He said nothing. But he went
away with a vision of her tired face
with lines of strain around the love-
ly mouth. and of the small work
roughcned hand that had held out