New Britain herald., 1928-11-20
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Emmy Milburn. at nineteen.
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 a party
given by her rich cousin. Mariana,
she resolved to better herself some
day. Meantime she took a business
course. paid for by her randmoth-
or Pentland. and snubbed as well as
she could. Robb Hollis, the boy
down the street. who worked in a
mill. and who represented the life
she determined never to let herself
sink into. Mariana tells Emmy she
is going to marry Jim Baldwin next
day. and TO keep il a secret. Emmy
succeeds in getting a stenographic
iob-her first position-and is i'm
:nensely pleased that she will re-
ceive twenty-five dollars week.
She figures it will only be a little
time before she can get an apart
ment Of her own and leave Flower
street forever. Since Uncle Bill
Parks died Mrs. Milburn has been
stopping in to see Grandmother
Fentland a while each evening. En-
my tells her mother You should
worry about her-she has plenty of
money" Emmy finally saves up
enough money to rent an apartment
of her own.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER NNIN
The twentieth day OF March was
the day that changed Emmy's whole
life. .s
just how completely it was to
change it she did not guess that
morning when she awoke to the
drumming of rain on the roof md
the splash and gurgle Of it in the
cutters.
my last day in this place." she
thought, lying in bed with her hands
clasped under her head. She was
filled with impatience to be away
from the shabby. comfortable little
room with its white-paintcd furni-
ture, its white floor, with its one
small square OF rug beside the bed.
its snapshots OF her mother in the
garden and of Dan in his football
togs.
No one in the world knew hat
this was the day she had chosen
for her going. She made up her
mind to do it very suddenly and
80 quickly that no one could pos
.sibly stop her.
Mother will Try. OF course she
said to herself as she bathed and
dressed; but I'm not going to listen
to her. I'll just close my ears. I'm
going through with this! It's now
or Eever!"
Her plans were very simple.
For a week she had been looking
around for a furnished one-room
apartment somewhere in d good
neighhorhood. mo use going from
the frying pan into the fire. she
had reminded herself.
On Thursday she had found one
In the For Rent" columns of the
morning paper. That night she had
hurried out to see 1t on her way
+ home from the office. GREATNESS
with worry that someone else might
have taken it.
No one had. and 1T was just the
sort OF place she wanted - COM
fortably furnished sitting room with
a bed that let down from the wall.
a dressing room no bigger than
packing case. and a kitchcnette that
was really just little sink ana
electric stove set in cupboard. II
overlooked Gor.on Park and the
rent was forty We dollars month.
The agent who showed it to her
said that the couple who were living
at noon.
"Ill take It," Emmy had told
him. and then and there she had
bound the bargain with ten-dollar
bill.
IAN 7 have to do nov is pack up
my clothes this afternoon and git.
she thought. while visions of hersel.
entertaining Marianne and Lovcv
and hosts of other people danced
through her head She could see
herself sitting at the little gateleg
table with candles and roses on il.
serving coffee and sandwiches 10
gay crowds. The cost of coffee and
candles and roses never entered into
her dream to trouble her. She had
twenty-five dollars a week. and she
was nineteen. The future threw
rosy pictures ahead of her like
magic lantern
She could see no bad omen in the
gloom and darkness Of the stormy
March day and went singing down
the stairs to breakfast of buttered
waffles in the cozy kitchen.
That morning at eleven O'Clock
Lucille Ingham - they were Lucille
and Emmy to each other by this
time-came running back from the
cashiers cage in high excitement.
You'd better fluff out your hair
and put on all your "ar-paint." she
said. IN her quick. breezy way.
wells Harbison's in the big office.
I just saw him. and the good word
is that he's going to be here for tho
next two or three months Will"
Harvord's in Europe"
Lucille was very polite and re-
spectful to the men from whom she