New Britain herald., 1928-11-17
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 wanted to lift herself from the sor- didness of the little street she lived in, to the heights where she felt she properly belonged. After par ty given by her rich cousin. Mari- anna, she resolved to better herself some day. Meantime she took business course. paid for by her Grandmother Pentland. and snubbed, as we'll as she could. Robo Hollis, the boy down the street, who worked in a mill. and who rep resented the life she determined never to let herself sink into. Mari anna tells Emmy she is going to marry Jim Baldwin next day. and to keep it a secret. Emmy succeeds in getting . stenographic job her first position-and Is immensely pleased that she will receive twenty two dollars . week. She figures IL will only be a little time before she can get an apartment Of her own and leave Flower street forever. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XXNH
 It was almost seven o'clock now. and along the eastern sky the sll- yer-xray light of the dawn was showing. Against it the roofs Of the heuses across the street showed sharply black, like houses cut out or black paper. It was beautllui sight
 Rut no matter how beautiful the winter dawn was in the sky. 1t al ways seemed murky and dirty down in the street itself. Along the mar row sidewalks, covered with siush and churned black mud, came the mill workers in their dark saa- looking clothes. with their tin lunch boxes under their arms.
 And along with the last or theh' anneared . figure that she Knew.
 Robb. He was talking anu laughing. Emmy could catch .he sound of his voice as the "i.lu tossed 1t up to her for an instant.
 He's just one of them, after all she thought, watching him thro" owav his cigarette and disappear into the employees entrance or 'ne grim looking old building. Hes Ill . better job than the rest or the,i'' and he's good and fine. But that b,. ,ife-the mill. It would De my liye if I married him. and if stay hove I will marry him." No. she must get away from here. sne mus. must ~o on her own way as she Was planning to do. She mustn't "eaN- en now. ..oa
 She slipped into a black broad .,o.n dress of Marianna's that Mrs' Milburn had made over into an ol- f,ce dress for her. It hao a loM .ouare neck and above 1t Emmy .t,r was like creamy velvet. The ,.rted waves of her red-gold hair were burnished with hard orushlns' ~ am nice looking" said Emmy bracinx herself for the new encoun- ter with life that waited TOT hei that day.
 She went down to breakfast, won dering If good looks helped srl in business or not.
 The kitchen of the little house was the warmest and cozlest room { in it, And there. at one end or the long table under the windows Mrs Milburn had spread a white clo'h for Emmy's breakfast.
 "I poached a couple of eggs TOT VOL" she said as Emmy dralhea her little glass of orange juice. l don't want you to get into the han't of rushing out of the house on an empty stomach"
 "No. Mother" Emmy's voice was fu,l of absent-mindedness. Her gray eyes vere fixed on the grocer's cal- endar that hung on the wall oppo- site her.
 Four pay days in February. she was reflecting. That meant almost ninety dollars before the first or March, It seemed like riches when she thought of it that way. "1 can buy | coat on the fifteenth or so. she told herself comfortably. ana Inv the first of March I'll be able to rent | room for myself some where, perhaps. By the second week, anyhow"
 you're not starting now. are vou?" her mother asked in amaze ment, as she got up from the table and picked up the dowdy between