The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-09

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 Susan compiled, willing enough 10 enjoy the respite. The man shifted some papers aside and seated himself on the edge of her desk.
 "There's been something I've been wanting to speak to you about anyhow, Miss Carey." he said, dropping his bantering tone for more serious one. Miss O'Connell isn't coming back. She doesn't feel too fit and 1t appears she has some Florida land and pro- poses to 90 down there to live. only learned this yesterday" he interpolated. What 1 wanted to kEow is, do you think you could carry on alone? It will mean a raise in salary and more responsi- bility. You seem rather young for the job but if l may say so we like your work and think we'll of you. What do you say?"
 san. "I'll do my best and hope
 "Good!" He smiled at her.
 Wuyp Ho . Tchuy dWLuuy uiCc, thought susan. That stiffness and coldness I used to be afraid of probably means he's awfully shy"
 "Where do you live?" Heath asked abruptly. She told him. Briefly she sketched her life with Aunt Jessie In the little house.
 Rather dull, oh? But you don't mind that?" The shrewd eyes twinklod at her behind the nose
 Tt is dull" Susan confessed land do mind sometimes aw- fully" What further revelations she might have yielded up are im- possible to say for at that moment an aproncd waiter arrived stagger. ing under the weight of heavy tray.
 ''In here!" Mir Heath directed leading the way to his private of. flee. We may IS well eat in com. fort" The walters impassive face gave no sign of the thoughts be. hind 1t. If he considered 1t unus. ual for employer and secretary tc lunch together in private ho con. cealed 1t.
 MT Heath fus|sd over tho tray There, that was Susan's. Was Il all right? He was hungry himself He had only had q bite nt the club at noon. Susan who had expected to find tho teto-a-tete faintly em- bnrassing was pleasantly surprised. Ernest Heath was an entertaining host. He talked well and seemed to exert himself to put the young Ga0rntnrv nj har anaA
 No ono would have guessed from his composed and dignihed man ner what thoughts were stirring beneath.
 This girl--how oddly and tan- talisingly she reminded him of someone. Who was it? An, he had 1t now! That girl in the pic- ture--the time Ruth had dragged him along when they had been in New York. Ruth had decided quite suddenly one evening that 1t would ps amusing to do . talkie. Ruth in silver cloth with q chinchilln wrap gliding into the Plaza theater. Himself, very solemn, with his tall hat crushed under his arm. Ruth felt perfectly at home. No wonder she thought tho Plaza amusing! That was her sort of thing, decidedly.
 Then the screen. Titles. all in 0 flash. The authors name, the di- iector's, the cameraman's. The story, an absurd, hurly-burly piece with mock.lovc. mock. despair. raock- everything. Out of 1t had emerged surely and clearly tho face of the girl on the screen. The prep0sterously large eyes. tho drift of dark hair. folded back from q pure forehead. There had been something arresting about her face. Etnest Heath had remembered 1t afterward when the picture itself with all It's absurdities had faded from his mind.
 All at oncc ho knew of whom this secretary of his reminded him .--Joan Crawford. That was 1t. She had something of the glamorous appeal of that other girl.
 Susan wondered why ho was looking at her so intently. She hoped with c passionate fervor that she was not going to blush.
 "Is therc q speck on my nose?" she inquired innocertiy.
 Heath apoiogized. "I was think Ing of something clse." he told her. The moment passed. They finished their food rather quickly and 4u- san returned to her work. She said good-night to him demurely. No, she had not minded working at eji. It was quito all right. A cab? She smiled faintly. No Aunt Jcs- siie would not approve of a cab. The cars went just a block from her door. It was not quite nine. She would be all right.
 That was all. But sine was ncvcr from that moment forward merely af automaton in Ernest Heath's eyes. She hnd become alive. She vLs a person, q force to Do reck- oned with. Heath, alone at his desk. realized this.
 (To Be OCntinucd)