The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-05-02

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walk Of doth st., just west Of
o'clock Of q bitterly cold, suns
Both stepped forward, stopped
with one movement and flashed
out their hands to grab Il, Their
hands touched even ns their heads
bumped together.
There the action stops abruptly,
az moving picture cameras s0me-
times do, to leave them frozen In
| the midst Of o painful and most
exciting moment while this tale
move backward to identity them.
Tho girl was Marjorie Tancred,
iato--very late--0f Altoona, Pm,
who hac become unfortunately con-
WINGED that she had been born %
be a dancer. She was blonde, blue.
eyed, pretty and 20. She had. up
70 three weeks before when she
arrived hopefully In New York TO
take up her career, been llssom
and shnpeiy. She was still ilssom
and retained the foundations of
shapelineEs. But thoro were angles
nc spots whore there should have
been curves, at tho base OF the
neck, the shoulders, the hips and
the elbows and she had 70 put
safety pin In her scanties or what.
ever girls wear In very cold wen-
err, 10 keep them on.
Trudging from agency to agency
and from rehearsal hall 10 rehoar.
sal hall to DO looked over ten hours
day ls not conducive Of putting
on weight, especially when the $50
with which you've hit New York
has every day In every way kept
dwindling smaller and smaller"
until the night before tho last OF Y
had gone for food, When she
reached out for that bright green
without food for eighteen hours,
having nut her last dime then into
roll and coffee. Six hours before
she had been informed by the wo.
man who kept tho rooming house
that, n she didn't return with
enough 10 pay a weeks back room
rent, she needn't return at all. And
here was room rent and food
THE MAN WAS
JOHN HAYNE
Tho man was John Hayne, seven
months a Bachelor of Arts and
fitted by tho education. OF which
his Alb. degree from a great east
ern university was symbol, to be
trained unit OF q well-ordered
world. But the world no longer
was wcil-ordered. II wasn't or
dered at oil. There were twelve
million people out OF work and he
was merely one Of them. outside
OF that, he wns husky. Football
and Summers In tho lumber camp
had made him 80 and also bronzed.
Ho had been looking for Job
since graduation seven months be.
fore at which timo he had learned
that his father, who had been rated
one or the lesser miflIonnires OF
Minneapolis In the dear dead days
dead broke. John wasn't looking
for any particular Job TO which his
training seemed TO have pointed
him. He was looking for q Job.
Any Job.
lie had done everything from
hustIinR bundles to sandwich. man.
ming along Sixth avenue and had,
for q while, chauffeured an open
work wheel barrow on the docks
until the stcvcdores notified him
that no could either beat Il or else.
AZ the moment no reached for the
bill, he hadn't eaten for two days.
But he was so used to Il no didn't
mind. However, to him also Il
meant food and lodging in q de-
cent fophouse for the night.
So the action resumes.
John Hayne hardly felt the
bump. Marjorie saw q million stare
and things started 10 go blue. but
her hand clnsped conclusivcly on
the bill. And then she dove for
ward. She felt two strong clamps
on her shoulders and In these
clamps she hung while tho blue got
bluer and then faded back into
gray. Her eyes opened and the
world stopped shimmying dizziiy
and she looked up into John
Haynes eyes.
Are you all right?" he asked.
| Her eyes darted down to the
hand which cIasped the bill. She
had II!
eyes" she said. I'm all right.
We bumped heads. didn't we? I'm
sorry"
I'm sorry myself in a way"
He grinncd. II was reaching for
that bill when hit you and I saw
you sag. IL that your money!"
"Why--why. no. II Isn't, she
admitted regretfully. us It
yours?"
NO" he said. but it's yours
by right of discovery and possess
sion--unlcss somebody comes along
and claims 1t. You're sure you're