New Britain herald., 1928-02-09
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 modern and as lambently lovely as the saga lily. starts out on a moon- lit night in August to attend . har- vest festival. With her brother. Tony. one year her junior, at the wheel of their flivver. the pair round the foot of a mountain on the outskirts of their home town Of Elliston, w. Va, just in time to wit ress an automobile hold-up, when young man driving high -power- ed roadster is thrown from his car by two bandits after having. appar. cntly, been shot.
 Immediately following the shoot ing. Tony is lack-jacked and Jill is thrown into the roadster and | held by one bandit while the other speeds the car toward the hills. Az the machine starts. the girls sees 2 form rise from the ground and stealthily climb on the rear end. An hour later when the moon has gone under a cloud, Jack Stuart owner of the roadster, gains the running board, and, with his service pistol. i hits one of the bandits and gains control of the situation.
 Leaving the bandits securely i bound by the roadside. he takes Jill back home. where Tony is found with . sore head but alive.
 Peter Justin, Jill's father. out of gratitude for saving his daughter. invites Stuart to remain and accept a job in . glass factory. with a view to learning the glass blowing trade. Jack accepts the offer.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER 1II
 It was on the first Monday in Sep tember that Jack Stuart went to work as apprentice under Peter Jus tin, in the big works of the Elliston Glass company, The work interested him from the start.
 But it was not merely to become a glass blower in a small iIeand town, in the wild and woolly moun- tain district of West Virginia. that Jack Stuart, owning a $5.000 road ster and q $1,00O bankroll, passed | up the advertised delights of little old New York, including Broadway's passing show.
 Jill! Jill! Had you not been aboard that night when he climbed across the big roadster's backbone, Colt lacked one gunman and put the fear of death into the heart of the other Elliston would never have known the mortal Jack M. But, you were there, Jill! You were there in every way that calls. beckons and wig-wags young mans ardent fancy. You were there, and therefore by that token hangs i the tale. And so now. as Jack said, when he stepped on the gas in the moonlight. let's go!
 | As outlined more or less clearly in the foregoing pages, Jack Stuart was what Is known in tho graphic batter of the period as "a fast worker" Quick application was the watchword of his program. Association of ideas was another one of Jacks indoor sports. No sooner had he settled down to the learning of a trade than he began serious consideration of acquiring Q home and family.
 JiIrs housekeeping. he observed, seemed to be the pride of her father and brother. The cottage owned by Peter. was two-story building with 12 rooms. To care properly for such an establishment was no light job for one small woman, even with maid to help.
 Taking these matters into consid- l oration, and weighing them in the balance along with !ill's exceedingly good looks and engaging personality, is it to be wondered at that Jack soon found himself looking the situ- ation over very carefully? ! There was nothing at all difficult in looking Jill over. She was won- Gerfully soothing to the eye. and looked marvelously good to Jack. And besides she was one of the kind of girls that improve and con- 1inue to improve upon acquaintance, as he told himself.
 "Listen, Jack" she said to him one evening following a slightly ten tative movement on his part. They had been to . picture show, in which Romance was represented by the "hurry-up. step-on-the-gas' or i der of things supposed to be Life | today.
 In the picture the heroine was the ultra-modern type of flapper, superlstively beautiful and charm- | ing. but crazy to Tive her own life' according to the best-accepted ideas of her friends-who were living theirs"
 The heroine was an adept at pet ting, while the hero was depicted as "the young man who had never been kissed" It was when Jack. discussing this young mans back wardness, offered to demonstrate for Jills special edification. the i difference between tircsome timidity and bold, glowing ardor. that Jill called upon him to lend an ear. "Well?" he said, interrogatively, looking down into her dark eyes. smoulderins in the moons reflected rays. I'm listening
 "I'd like you to tell me- she said and there was that in her voice that called for careful attention, ''if you really approve Of girls letting men kiss them fin that free and easy manner shown in the picture To- nighto Do yoa, Jack. think it quite all right? For instance: 1T you had sister like mh. would you like to think of her being perfectly willing 10 he kissed by young men as hey kissed the girl friends of the scn- ator's daughter? Would you. Jack "'
 Jack Stuart took a long breath,