The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-12

JANE TERRY cnme to New
 AOrk determined t0 show her
 nome town and especially
 AMY JACKSON that she can
 make Q success of her life,
 ,AMy had been her best friend
 until HOWARD JACKSON
 broke the engagement Jane
 forced on him and married
 Amy. Unable to bear the sight
 or Amy's happiness, Jane ob.
 tains Q job i'm New York real
 estate ofiice.
 Jane Is clever and soon is
 making an excellent salary.
 She has an affair with ROGER
 THORPE, a business aequnin.
 tance who Is married. Later
 she tires of him and when he
 offers to bear the expense of
 their child she dismisses him
 contemptu0usly.
 CHAPTER xv
 No, Jane reassured herself, she didn't regret Thorpe. q can get through by myself better than hay ing him whining about" she be found out and disgraced."
 She tried to think of someone she could tell. There was Miss Jar dine, but she wouldn't be able to bear Miss Jardine's questions and her possible satisfaction that Jane was in such distress. Miss Jardine had disapproved of Jane's apart ment. She had, Jane was sure, been a thought envious of Jane's quick success. As an aid in trouble Miss Jardine would not do,
 And there were no girls or wom- en in the Handel organization to whom Jane could turn. They'd talk. They'd be sure to find out about Thorpe and the scandal would go through the office like rot in wood.
 The only person in the office who seemed at all possible was Handel himself. Jane knew that he, rough, bullying, powerful, would under stand. She could be blunt and straight with him, and he with her. But there again, if she talked to Handel, Thorpe would be impli- cated. And whatever happened Jane meant to keep silence about Thorpe. It was not so much to protect him as to protect herself for the future. She had learned the hard lesson that every person let into a secret increases its sharers by ten.
 Of coure, there was Aunt Rosa. But I'll walk straight into Hades before I tell her." Jane said aloud, Shed go off her head and she'd drive me crazy, too. The preaching I'd have to stand, and the way she'd carry on! Aunt Rosa's out, once and for a1l."
 Thinking of Aunt Rosa brought back Marburg, it quiet streets and quiet shaded houses. And ther, suddenly her dream came back, two girls walking under the elm trees as in high green tunnel, two girls in light dresses, laughing to- gether - why, Of course - Amy! Amy would stand by, Amy would not preach, Amy would hold her tongue.
 She could trust and depend on Amy as on no other person in the world. There was relief in the very thought of her. Jane's quick advantage-seeking mind added the weight of Amy's promise - Amy had said that she was always her friend, that she would do anything. Jane brushed aside as nothing the cruel stabbing things she had said and written to Amy They had no bar to her appeal. They would be no bar to Amy in answering her appeal. Amy always kept her word. She would write to Amy today, this very minute.
 It was more difficult than Jane had foreseen to make contact with her friend. Amy could not come to her at once, as Jane demanded. She 1t seemed at first, come to her at all. Jane realized the justice of this. She knew that Amy couldn't dash off alone to New