The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-16
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NORMA KENT pretty 20-year- old secretary in a law office,
 meets MARK TRAvERS, attrac- tive and wealthy, when together they rescue a frightened puppy / from the midst of downtown 1 traffic. Norma refuses to tell the l young man her name or where he can see her again. Later she joins
 BOB FARRELL, young lawyer, for a dinner engagement. Farrell
 asks her to marry him and Nor-
 ma says "no".
 The scene of the story is MarI- boro, middle-western metropolis. ! Norma takes the puppy to the . shabby apartment she shares with
 CHRISTINE SAUNDERS. Norma
 fears Chris is falling in love with
 her married employer, BRADLEY | HART, proprietor of an advertis-
 ing agency. Next day Norma in-
 serts an advertisement about the
 puppy in the lost and found col-
 umn of the Marlboro Press. The
 first person to answer this adver-
 tisement is Mark Travers, who
 explains he has made every effort
 to learn Norma's identity. He
 tries to make a date but she de-
 clines his invitations. Travers
 departs. Later he telephones
 NATALIE PRICE, popular debu- tante, and goes with her to 8 gay
 party concluding with round of the night clubs.
 The following evening Norma arrives home and finds Chris ab- sent. A note explains she has
 gone to aid MINNIE BAKER,
 booxkeeper at the advertising office, whose two-year old son has been seriously burned. A small boy comes to claim the stray pup py and takes him home. BESS HAWTHORNE, the custodian's daughter, asks Norma if she re- ceived an important telephone call that afternoon.
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 CHAPTER VII
 Bessie's eyes widened. Her voice showed surprise. Why" she went on, q gave the man your telephone number at the office. supposed of course he'd call you! He said"
 "Who did? Who was it?"
 'T don't know" Bessie shook her head. "He didn't give any name. I-I didn't think to ask. It was about 2 o'clock the phone rang and I was in the kitchen. It rang three times before I got there and then a man asked for you. told him you were at the office. He |seemed awfully anxious to talk to you so I said I could give him the number down there. As soon as I told him what 1t was he hung up. Don't it seem funny he didn't try Ito call you? Maybe he did and you 'dida't get the message"
 'That was about ? o'clock?" Norma asked.
 The other girl nodded.
 ooh, yes,' Norma said casually. CT did get that message only I'd {forgotten about it." She started |up the stairs. "Well, good night, Bessie. suppose you'll be glad to have your mother back?"
 '@Yes'm. Good night, Miss Kent" Bessie looked disappointed not to |learn what the important telephone | call had been about but there was mo way for her to prolong the con- |yersation. Norma was already half way up the flight. Bessie re- turned to the rear apartment. Norma continued her climb to |the third floor. She was by no means as unconcerned as her voice |had indicated. As matter of fact | both cheeks were burning. The color was becoming and her eyes were bright. So that was how Mark |Travers had learned where to find |her. He certainly was persistent. |Yes, he was more than that. He was attractive. Better looking than any young man Norma had ever |accepted attentions from. Deliber- lately she had refused to recognize |his good points. Deliberately she |had told herself she must not show |the slightest interest in a youth |who drove a car like Travers, who was never serious, who beyond the |faintest doubt lived in a world apart from her workaday exist |ence.
 She awoke to morning of |streaming golden sunlight and |certainty that something exciting was about to happen.
 As usual she wore the gray suit but she put on her prettiest blouse. She spent all of five minutes coax ing the taffy-colored waves into their most becoming outline. And there was certainly an added dash, a debonaire tilt to the little black hat when, 30 minutes after aris- ing, Norma was on her way to the car line.
 She was so sure something de- lightful would happen that day and yet nothing did. At 10:30 when there was a Hull in the morn