The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-15
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Beautiful EILEEN ROsSITER

Beautiful ELLEN ROSTER,
 a salcsgirl tr Barclays Depart.
 luent store, works nights Us Il
 dance hall hostess at Dfeamlnnd.
 She lives with her cxtfavagant
 mother. MOLLY ROSTER,
 her elder sister, MIRA, and her
 young brother, MIKE.
 STEVEN BARCLAY. 57 and
 E11cn's employer. loves the girl
 blit she is in love with LARRY
 HARROWGATE, an artist she
 has met at Drean,land. She loses
 her heart to him in spite of the
 fact that he Is engaged to EIlZ-
 ABETH BONES, q debutante.
 Ellen is unwilling to wound Barclay but when scandalous g0s-
 sip is circulated at the store, she
 determines to see him no more.
 However, Molly Rossifcr, anxious
 for Ellen to marry u licl, lius-
 band, invites hlm tO dinpcr. Mol
 1y borrows money 10 make the
 apartment attractive and this inc
 furiates Ellen. She and Molly pre-
 pare the dinner while Myra and
 BERT ARMSTEAD, Myra's
 flancc, entertain the guest. Bar
 clay gives Mike q bicycle, and
 tho boy is delighted but Ellen is
 seriously displeased. The dinner
 party gets off to a bad start.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XVIII
 The dinner, off to such bad start was soon jolly, friendly affair. The food was excellen. and not, as Ellen had feared in the beginning, too elaborate. She had omitted the pate and had firmly vetoed Molly's suggestion that the lobster be seiv- meal with lobster cocktail, cool and delicious and served with one of Ellen's famous sauces. Then there was the roast ruck, cunningly and accurately seasoned. The vegeta- bles, green corn with peppers and peas and broccoli, were served with cream sauces.
 Ellen had managed everything so that the dinner seemed great deal simpler than 1t was.
 Bert, firmly prevented from dis cussing baseball, was encouraged to talk of his really amazingly knowl- edge of literature. Myra and Ellen, invariable controverslalists, were soon gaily wrangling with him over the rightful place of some of his favorites. Where would Sinclair Lewis be in 100 years? A historian of his age or completely, forgotten ? How about Hemingway?
 They argued while Molly, proud smile in her eyes, looked at Bar clay as if to demand whether her daughters were not the cleverest in the world. Steven, silent at first and not quite understandings how the game was played. entered one or two suggestions only to see ,hem torn to bits and flung back at him altered almost beyond recognition.
 He learned quickly; warmed to their yougthful vigor. Soon he was defending his posit;ol as valiantly as they defend theirs He caught Myra's and Ellen's attention when he mentioned his acquaintance with several of the authors under dis cussion. They demanded more and then more.
 Before he knew it, he was talk ing of places he had been and peo- pie he had met. He sketched Monte Carlo for them and told of little French towns where life moved just as it had 300 years before. He re- created the color Of. glittering ba- zaars and spun tables of adventur- CTS. princesses, statesmen and scoundrels he had known.
 Ellen forgot her resentment of the man under the spell of the pictures he drew. Oh, it would be fun to travel to see the gray spires of Paris and to wande, in the cool depths of the Blacg Forest.
 The little group ignored the pas sage of time as they proceeded fur ther and further into the fascinat- Ing exploration of one another's minds. Finally there cane an in- 
 II was The coIored maid again. "Isve waited and waited she an- nouneed mournfuiiy. T want my x5. | got to go home"
 They all laughed and struggled from the table. Ellen became aware that the room was stifiing hot. 1.rodbles which had been put away returned to haraFs her. Whei was Io happen to themy The insurance money so painfully seraped to- rel her had been spent for an even- ae<s nlensure. The coast of Nor .4nd< was all very well but where .as {he rent 60 come fromY
 Whap they wandered from the I45,fiN iu Ihe AINin4 room fo the f.sfTv iItfk4 faom tIe inuvndsic Inc , 1.<<.u and siaftd ao~n co the 'zI.1 sfrsaf. EHlI1f&o eere playing