The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-15

kind. And when they drew up at 6 shabby house under pin oak trees out on a country road he felt a flash of something that was al- most like pain. A young colored by came out and shook his hand and said he was glad to sec him back Michael was very polite all through this. When he went inside ht found that, sure enough, the room with the narrow bed and the oaker chest of drawers meant something to him. He had slept in this room
 -long ago.
 | He went to the bureau almost as a slcepwalker might have gone and opened c top drawer and look ed into it. There we're only few neat, folded handkerchiefs and some worn gloves. What was 1t he had expected to find? y | Sally cooed over him after he came out on to the veranda once more. Was he sure he'd be all right?i They didn't like leaving him here. He ought to come back to their house with them, only people talked so. And,< after all the wedding was to be next week Then she could take care of him for aiways--her great big, naughty boy who had been so very i'll! Michael was glad when shed gone away. The colored boy whose name, Michael had learned, was Tips, came out and said that his father had had to Sso to Hartford because somebody in the family was sick. He'd be back next Thurs. day. Michael said, not caring at all but very politely. that he was sure everything would be all right. Tips asked rather timidly II Michael wanted to have look ut the horses, and Michael followed him out into shabby stableyard, where mare and. a big roan whinnied at him. This was good, Michael thought. It was home. like place. Obviously he belonged here, although that cloudy sensa- ton, wavering always at tho back of his mind, made him feel a bit unsure.
 Back in her enormous bedroom with the mullioned windows and the rich, tasteless furniture, Sally sat, surrounded by rainbow of frocks; shoes, still in their tissue wrappings, lay in the boxes. It had been easier than she had expected--all of 1t. She gloated. with q sort of wild glee, over the thought of her coming triumph. At first she had been attracted to Michael merely because of his handsome masculinity--partly be- cause of his indifference. But her nature took fire always at any sign of opposition and, although she had been more than once tempted to let the engagement drop, after she had heard of his good fortune she had determined to cling to him doggedly.
 Michael had been right when he had shrewdly gauged Sallys reactions to the thought of a title. She rolled the words on her lips now, trying on dangling crystal earring. Lady Garden"
 She swept herself deep curt sey in the glass. liking the effect of dangling crystal drops against her dark curls and her glowing dark skin. Those old cats down at the Point could not snub her now. They'd have to admit she'd done well for herself.
 Suddenly she remembered the little packet the nurse had given her when first she arrived at the hospital. claiming Michael. She turned 1t out of her purse. exam- ming it again with curiosity. A handful of change. crumpled bill or two. And plain gold ring. A wedding ring.
 Funny. d-fashioned thing" Sally said with distaste. Well. if Michael had thought he was going to put any such thing on her finger he was much mistaken. Not a chance. She would pick out her own diamond and platl. mum band when she went Into the city tomorrow. She'd tell Michael about it. He could pay for it later.
 Thls gold ring she tossed care- loHsiy into her jowei box. He'd never think of it nov.
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