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- ByCLIFFORD WEBB, 407400 O © 1926 THE CENTRAL PRESS ASSOGIATION, ING. n to whom she ad not spoken to for more tha G should have turned sudden ed her a kindness, com- another woman to accept her st at her party—it w als of fire” on Amity IiEAD THIS ¥I Jir J der the cir st thing could sie did 1t with a | surpris rhaps, sh £ qual NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1928, [ Jill huddled up in the other, sleepy and tired, miserable in heart, body !and mind. £he told him calmly and brietly just what had happened, and she 1t convinced, even as she told it, that he believed she was lying. Then told his etory which, as it hap- pened, and she herself came to know afterwards, was the truth. | told it, however, she believed of him | her—that 1al good humor. CHAPTER XXXI1 “Hes the bost dancer in Elliston— exception of Tony,” said ¢ disregarding the at Jack fondly imagined him- | almost, if not quite, Tony's | in the more common dance eps. He looked at her and a little hate- il suspicion took lodement at that oment in his heart and mind, a ispicion that was soon to be give something on which to feed tongu worst | i and .. how o to a 4 on that oc was sweet in said, in a voic emotion, as she c: play <he d th s micknamed lapper. but a cven her enem and Mike clash at the wife th' things I've said You certainly kind heart. I'm not ry and thank you now. Th’ T can do that is by actions. Mayhe ay you'll have reason e glad that you did me th' good u did toda re may when Amity’ can niliation in r th’ n and about vou. got a h in glass works, hut says he's going nto b He inventories the family expenditures, and questions | 'ur propriety spendings, Come a tim and marital become 10w how to be g strained How and to Gossip links scemingly tentative to be fulfilled nome there {dreamed. But the time did when Jill was to recall the with strangely conflicting tions. It really rather a “manly” thing to do, making that acknowl- cdgment of her indebtedness that A\mity Smythe made to Jill that att- art reminded herself. She had good | tornoon in the drug store in the reason, in the weeks and mouths yrecence of four other women and that followed, to recall that moment |4 man, It was a “manly” thing in and to marvel at the fecling of an- that it was said with a A tagonism just a glance from th® rorward earncstness that many other woman had inspired in Nl women would ve found difficult. It seemed almost to pr ate It made an instant and profound grief and trouble. impression on Jill. She knew in- “When is your stinctively that sincerity backed the Jine” utterance of every word. The questioner was Mike Sween “I'm glad, Amity, that you take it While Mike and Jill had always been | that way,” said Jill, & nes fricndli- on speaking terms—even Visiing nes welling up in her heart for Lerms—their relations never had been | 1)iis old enemy, *1 was a little 4fraid really friendly., It was rare thal yoy might think 1 was trying to be cither addressod the other directy, | patronizing. Of course you under- as in the present instance. Jill was |gand why Miss Sweeney didn't in- a trifle surprised, but she gave N0 | clude you at first. She thought you evidence of 1t in her reply. and T were real encmies and that, aturday night” she answered. g the party was being given to cele- “We'll take th' early train Satur-|prgee Tony's and my entry into a day morning. It leaves here at 8:10, | pew field, I wouldn’t want you. But 1d gets into Pittsburgh at 12:30 D. | I'm too happy in getting this chance m. We go on th’ floor 11 and |10 he able to see anybody else unhap- finish at midnight. Just an hours v T'm glad we are friends again. worl | “Jill Smart” whispered Ann M home folkth thurtainly are born | Gufry a few minuts later, “you're chirped the drrepressible | jarlingt T take off my chapeau to “Juth think! One hour of |yoy the best sport in Elliston iing—half dothen hourth & [poor old Amity. When Mike el havin’ a good time—and get- | gyweeney passed her up in the count in’ puid for it! T with T had thom || just wanted to scream with rage Jent, But all T goth ith an impedi- | Not that I dido’t think Amity de- went in my talk, and nobody wanth gerved it, but it was so obviously a tha se of playing for vour favor. ‘0 up spoke Mike again—this Then when you came across like time with an astonishing proposal. | the queen you are, 1 wanted to “What d'vou say, Jill—Tony and | shout!" it we make your opening night | ghe turned to the others and held occasion for a city party up her hand to attract attentiol limousine will carry a dozen, “Listen, everybody!” she suid, € There would be—let's see—"" jusky little note in her voice 1! she counted the names off on her | hetrayed her real emotions. “We fingers. “There's Jill and her hus- [4)) saw and heard what Jill Stuart hand, two: Tony, three; Professor juet did and 1 suggest we give her e Tarte, four; Billic and Ann. #3; . vote of thinks for pointing 1he Nita and myself, eight, Just a nic® way and showing how a woman ean 1} tle party lie & ‘good fellow’ as.well as o man. g Shie had 1gnored Amity We might all of us take a lesson latter not from Jill's book. T'Il bet it'll I Whether she did it intentionaliy long while before anyone will u not the unkin of t Amity Smythe's meow about Just as appa nt. ing bahies’ Jill Stuart didn't like “Jill ith a everybod s bled the natural blonde dmost an op s shimmery ankles. “May her Onlv a few moments he twinth and both be o relations what ent prediction t name of Jack likewise Jill - are dis- hrother Tony cngagement at he even | w come | w cident emo- cussed. Jill accept a d Pitteburgh. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXX “$till waters run deep,” Jill Stu " It ti was it m N st opening night, A 0 th h in b w W n I as h o bu w vou » P it w Smythe £ the had existo o e i Amin thweet woman ar- with the necktht hahy named Bill:” at clightesi pro- t Jil ad tossed one of her without the Obviously “houquets” 3 ens! Who frightful cried Jill, horrificd at the suggestion of such a possibil- And 1 supposed Billie was my friend, too!” Whereupon Tony If into the temporary foct by a timely proposal. T man in white” fairly orders. It was ho proposed a hey drank it standi Thursday,” sh ). favoring Tony with a smils lifted the g hoofer into a Lordering on cestatic, 1 pro t evervbodv pr com« our honse t1 vening Dad with yen 1.” she 1 to the latter, of he T last was and voratio plas foel Att csa of Al wish!™ to cor S miere kind sig! h volted at the And anyone look moment wonuld s suffering. To out feliberate and popular young 4 him of all niee - to | Mik 1o art r project of a r's he the only one - cut by the rich toast _was £ another eency gir Jin h f the poor soul a cor being to vour 18 she ment furs the aid cars f, Jill hiad a feeling was plotting sotr I'rof Whi “thing be Catertai nt of a i lovers” essor will 1 sides,” | Haofer o 50. A q b of those scheduled for the Pittsbhurgh party had donned their wraps knew fashioned Having a petting party, presumibly. Suddenly graveled path sgainst the dan. There e on the town! gimme Pat Sweeney more than hieart” that night to his ¢ r's guests Fat liked to do ght. He enjoyed being called a jolly good fellow.” But Pat wanted | t least a showing of appreciation | for his efforts. Ingratitude and ure to appreciate him was ad in is heart, Mike b esides those 4 invit of d some s, th drug store count, e ha n the ¥ numbe ntal cstir the party ays did wi Sweene ined, So th ck m Pat lock told ad cost him over % the ext side most tearfully. word to Jill, five minutes who ! assed it on. In part It Jill as ub- welkin is the start aited. Her nt. Some time the exodus was under way, Tt ang merrily. And still Jill waited occurred to her that it was get- ng to be something of a habit. Finally she went out and climl ito their sedan, starting up the otor to heat the interior, for th ovember air was cold. Her heart old her that with Nita Ie in some on: the numer- cozy corners hig-old- “Hous: Built.” of the “other half"” er the exodu, W ck was of in th That Jack r had e were in a ver She looked out she uoticed that both sociable mood into the of sty gray of the faint moon-lit morning. n other cars had depart: she caught the ery someone walking along the Jack at last! the outlines of a man's skyline and opencd s the figure stepy and came toward as a dull achr cart, an ache that | g for months, for ack and she wer it surely apart. But 1 iake no reference to his cvident hilandering, 1f he— She started back, cluichin oor to pull it shut. The man ot Jack. Tt was Professor 1 arte, and the the ] n ound of Ay e e fron se ar door 4 walk 1 the in her 1 heen grow felt that dritting slowly it 1t 1l Wi profussor was intoxi ate Thish ickly, andle ish luek!” 1 s he grabbed the insic of the door and placed a foot running hoard. “I thought | gonna hoof it int But fr'ndsh Stu'rshill lift, 1 g ) No, no—wait sted Jill lci hand against his shoul er to prevent his entrance, * K husbuand—isn't yot bett'ri™ He ana ush have t* Laughed pushed past her, wled out on the hack e was helpless, And 1e professor, 10w that lie Jud found P to rest The armth of the car' nt im inte dreamland min And thus Jack he professor s 11 length of 50 was ce weary 1 interior wWithii found 1licm awled back iter 1 and Loross just as ehe felt sure he believed of ne was lying! the two of them, Puppe of | Easy Money—money that had come quick and unexpected, obtained at | the cost of only a slight _effort; money uncarned by real work, and therefore unappreciated. And now that same money was turning them against each other. For, had they both been busy, as during the first four years of their marriage, they would have had no time nor inclination for parties, and it was the parties that brought about their misunderstandings—as in the present instance. “Where does your—er—friend live?" car from the River road into the city street, He was told that she had no idra where the professor lived, “Well"” he sald, shooting a dainful glance at the sprawling fi- | gure on the seat, a figure that was an excellent replica, had he but known it, of what his own had been | only a short time before, when Pat Sweeney had found him asleep in a Morris chair in his private study, what are we gonna do with him? hat's w 1'd like to know. can't dump him out in ti can’t take him home with us— at least we won't—and T don't care As he| times over rather have a quiet lit- | tle home where th' children could | get out of doors, where I could do | my own housework, and we c’d live decently. Nothing would please Da more than to have us back at th' old home with him and—" “There you go again—harping on | that ‘0ld home’ star,* cut in the! man who had just been denouncing the “party stuff” and calling it the | “tool game.” *For th' Lord's sake, forget it!” Oh, Inconsistency, tl name 1s Man—when he wants sque- thing and doesn’t know what. Jill was silenced. But as to her forgetting it, that somethin else again. This strange antipathy of Jack’s for her old home was he- vond her understanding. His argu- ment about “disliking to be under obligation to his wife's ives | was nonsense to her- What belonged | to him belonged to her, and by the same token, what beronged to her belonged equally to him. But, asked herself, was that his r: son? She had her doubts, (TO BE CONTINUED) asked Jack as he turned the | City Advertisement The School Committee of The City of New Britain OFFICIAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that in ac- cordance Wwith a resolution of the | School Committee of the City of New Britain, the said Schoo! Committe will receive bids for the purch [the school property known Lincolu School on Lincoln dis- | | dred sixty (160) New Britain, the land being approxi- mately one hundred thirty-nine (139) feet in width and one ctin depth, more particularly deser Britain land rccords, page 594. Bids must he encl sealed envelopes und be addressed to Stanley H. Holmes, Superintendent of Schools rms cash upon the approval of the sale and passing of this deed. Al bids must be received by the Superintendent of Schools not later than March 13, 1628, at 10 o'clock, a. m. The School Commi tee reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The sale of the prop- erty is subject to the approval of Common Council of the City of N Britain, A certified check of ten per cent of purchase price is to accompany | ach bid, which will be returned if the bid is not accepted and sale ap- | proved, but if the bid is accepted | ind sale is approved, it is to be ap- | plied on the purchase price or re- tained by the school committee in asc of default by the bidder. | ed at New Britain, Conn., this | lay of March, 192§ | £chool Committes City of New USE THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS of the Britain —_— to be seen at this hour in th’ morn- unloading him at any hotel 1" question is—what are we t' d “It's only a few block from bers to the hospital.” suggested Jill, her woman's wit finding a way out ot their quandary. “Why not drive there with him, say that he taken ill at th' party, and leave him for th' doctors to sober up? It's a terrible imposition on them, but it's 1 way out for us!" Thus did Professor Le Tarte hap- 1 to find himself all dressed up in L cotton flannel nightgown, when he tinally woke closc to noon on the day followinz the festive ning in the *“House That Jack Built,” And how, pl would ha Jike his eggs and to And did he care for grapefruit and eream'in hi Yes, he told - pretiy nurse, he cared for grapefruit—but not in his coffee, He also liked cream, So it is In the Game of Life. W our move, place a pawn here, cre. TI Devil of Chaner springs up, Kicks over our eastle of car nd loaves us hanging in the iir, metaplorically. Or, as in the nrofesso the player does flipflop and lands in bed with some- body waiting to hand (nd coffee on a silv Something along ti ave been percolating ti mind of Juck art that 18 Jill and he walked out of the where they kept their nto the murky chill o He w aud sic “It's beginuing o ivike me” b s th cmphasis on the playing an game! Mayhe you find a lotta fun in kind o thing, but Ill be darned if T do!™ made no reply to his rritabl nuark—an obvious offcring for ar argument. Jill chose always to air Ner personal affairs within the con- fines of her own Louschold. Tt ifter they had a4 the privacy of thei Ml both of them lad sec eshing, soothing fits cold to her fo the nim v platter: Life: line might ough the mornine. g an. rago 3 n pronoun, “thi wl-around il 1 this WS Toou zave voice dack,” sl mor “If you think you belicy am enjoying zuzzling partivs taken, Mayhe stuff 14 W ‘zlorious kick carry. But citecrs 11 it. 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