The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-10
SYNOPSIS


 BOOTS RAEBURN, is ana
 pretty, is snubbed by wealthy
 SYLVIA RIVERS. Due to Syl-
 via's gossip, Boots Is forced to
 resign from the Juniors. Both
 girls live in Earchneck, fashion,
 able New York suburb.
 Hurt and humiliated, Boots
 accepts the attentions of RUSS
 LUND, swimming instructor.
 MRS RAEBURN returns from a
 trip out of town and Boots
 threads her mothers hearing she marrics Russ who takes her
 to live with his brother and his
 wife. Russ has no job and ap-
 parently no ambition. Soon
 Boots begins to see him us he Is.
 Russ goes to Miami, promising
 Boots he will send for her later.
 She gets a job in n big depart sslent store. One wet, cold night she reaches home, feeling i'll and discouraged. A customers $1O
 bill has been lost and Boots Is held responsible.
 CHAPTER XIV
 "She's very sick girl" the doc tor said to the dark young man, braced against the distempered wall of Mrs Moneys sitting room. "She ought to have nurse l don't know ."
 .'She can have nurse," the dark young man stated coldly and with firmness. Get one. Twenty-four hour duty?"
 "I know good girl. She worked under me on case like this last winter" the gray, plump protes- sional man told him. You're her --her brother?'
 "Just a friend" said the dark young man. II know her family. I only discovered last night we were living in the same house.
 "Ah. sec" The doctor, draw ing on his big driving gloves, eyed the younger man with interest.
 You'll have the nurse come right over then?'
 within an hour. May use this telephone?"
 In the dim, untidy room Boots slept in stupor. Her skin burned with the raw flush of fever. She scarcely knew where she was when she woke. except at dim in- tervals. In her dreams it seemed to her that she was in her own room at home with the thin. deli cately darned curtains blowing at the wide windows and October roses blooming just beneath them. But when she came back to con- sciousness, which was only occa- sionally, she saw the outlines of the sagging painted bureau and the gray square of window beyond it. Trucks jolted over the cobblestones and urchins cried in the streets be- low and taxi horns honked. honked necessarily Beyond in the narrow streets edging the river. fog horns boomed with dreary regularity.
 There was something - she couldn't remember just now-that troubled her. Something about $10 bill and tall, stern faced young man at Lacys. She had the feeling she babbled about it in her sleep, but maybe she was wrong. It was all dreamlike Even the cocl hands of the girl in white. laid on her feverish brow and wrist, were the hands of dream angel.
 People came and went in this dream. Although Boots was un- aware of it the small square room was scrupulously tidy now, with the tidiness of hospital room clean scarf on the bureau. Clean patched spread twitched four square over the thin blankets. Tumhler and spoon everything shining. Tumbled clothes hung be- hind the screen out of sight.
 On the morning of the sixth day the s.. doctor strengthened, ~ his plump back. folding the stetho- scope carefully and tucking it into his pocket, allowed himself a smile. Two, in fact. One for the nurse and another for the dark young man whose eyes had been searching his face.
 Shell do.' he said beningly. Shell do very nicely"
 Boots slept under their combined scrutiny She looked thin. The hEe bones of her small face stood out sharply in the rock k-gray dim. ness of the room. A shaded bulb burned dimly over the table.
 The dark young man followed the doctor out into the hall.
 That was close shave" the older man said affably, struggling big shoulders into his coat. She had a peculiarly virulent type. . He went on. discoursing learned ly of the habits and curiosities of Influenza and the dark yooung man listened, nodding occasionally, un- smiling.
 Well. we'll, I'll look in to-mor-