Evening star., 1937-01-17
Mco1xiss Section

note. She could not find it. She asked Ivy for
it. Ivy said:
oh, dear! 1t must have been with the
papers threw away. I'll ask the janitor."
She came back from the speaking tube by
the dumbwaiter. The Swede says all that
trash went out on the early morning wagon"
TRASH sighed Trina.
That noon Ivy slipped away to bank near
the store and rented safe deposit box. She
put in it the ring, Nicky's note to Trina. and
few useful memoranda as to dates and names.
These things were growing too important to
leave around.
When the telephone failed to put Nicky
through to Trina, and his notes and letters
failed; when she was deaf even to the things
that his flowers could say, he sent no more
messages, but stomed her door himself.
Ivy let him in. but Trina fled to her room
and the click of her key told him that she was
not in to him. He sank into chair and won
dered why the good Lord ever made women.
Ivy oonsoled him as best she could and quoted:
Time is the great healer"
After a long talk with Ivy whom he was
coming to like more and more, he went away.
She had promised to help him to catch Trina
by surprise, and make her listen to him. But
she saw to it that when she told Nicky to call.
she also told Trina. So Trina was always out.
Thus week went by and Ivy saw Nicky
every day. He came to the apartment or she
telephoned to him that Trina was to be home
and he might try lust dropping in"
Gradually Nicky grew more and more fond
OF Ivy; she was sweet and gently understand
ing of his woes. She managed to get from him
two or three notes. They were short and of no
importance except for one in which few
words might be construed as love passage
with Ivy. though they really referred to Trina
such note as this sprinkled with love-
words that everybody uses nowadays to
everybody
Ivy darling:
You didn't keep your promise last night
Try not to disappoint me tonight. I'm rapidly
losing my mind, but you re breaking my heart
with these broken promises
Nicky.'
AuS LclcIIC1, VI CUUISc, 10 HG1 Iduu1e 10
bring about a meeting with Trina. But what
would jury think Of it? Ivy and Andy hoped
to escape the ordeal of public trial; they
counted on being bought off, Yet they would
have to build up breach of promise suit that
would scare old Peter Hoffen or some of the
other big lawyers guarding the Allard estates
into settlement out of court.
Andy was always praising Ivy for her clever
ness in securing that ring and the stroke of
genius that led her to hold it up before the
salesman at Pelletiegs and refer to it as an en-
gagement ring. In that salesman they had al
ready one witness who could be counted on.
To clinch the matter, Andy had Ivy 60 to
Pelletier's and talk, to the salesman about
changing the setting. This was in order to i'm
press upon him her name and face and the
feeling that she was Nicly's iancee.
Still their campaign was 50 complex, sue
cess would mean such enormous riches, and
failure such crash that Andy pleaded for a
consultation with the senior Mosk. head of the
firm in which Andy was 50 inoonspicuous an
underling. He knew that even the bringing
into the Office of such case would probably
fetch him rise in salary.
So Ivy went with him to see the great Mock
in his regal suite Of Offices, and was surprised
to discover that what she was trying to do had
been done countless times before and had BE-