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COPYRIGHT 1928 BY THIS HAN HAPPENED | <iy Tord, 16 known vo other home orp! asylum, since four, who has than arm for the summer, roB sh I Miss worker, to rnother. Por tell he her sometl bout 1 mather live is someon; a0 ily dressed who id—he 1 it new ¢ to David that they mip night wotior sup exper Pearl 20 10 u e tabl uggests GO ON WITH THI CHAPTER VT but T can't tonight.” David swered Pearl Carson's i firmly Tt sicture NOW STORY Sorry Nash a ior P ously fler cour but wouldn't iy widnight hours for a rm hand to be ing. Besides, T've got to study ae T cun keep awake.” | “You're always studying when 1 want you to take somewhere,” | Pearl pouted. “T don't see why | you can't forger college during your Summer vacaition. Go get som more hol biscuits, Sally.” ah added sharply Except for Pearl's David's bricf, courteous replies, the meal was eaten in silence, the nungry tarmer and his hired men | Lunching over their food, wolfing it, disposing of such vast quan- lities of fried steak, vegetablos, Liscuits, pie and coffee that Sally was kept running between kitchen and dining room to replenish bowls and plates from the food kept warming on the stove. In spite of her own hunger she ate little, re- strained by timidity, but after her 12 years of orphanage diet the meal emed Ifke a banquet to her. { No one spoke to her, except Mrs. Carson and Pearl, to send her on 4 trips to the kitchen, but it did not occur to her to feel slighted. Tt | was less cmbarrassing to be ignored | than to be plied with questions, Sometimes she raised her flutter- ing eyclids to steal a quick glanee | at David Nash, and every glanee | deepened her joy that he was there, | that Le sat at the same table with | her. ate the same food, some of | which she had cooked. His super- iority to the others at that tabls was o strikinzly evident that he seemed god-like to her. His pride, | his his golden, masculine | beauty. his strength, his evident breeding, his ambition, formed such 4 contrast to the qualities of the orphaned boys she had known that it did not occur to her to | liope that he would notice her. | But onee when lier blue eyes stole | 1 flecting glimpse of his face she artled to that garding her soberly, pathctically. He smiled in his ey vouid W 20t to tow back untl I <eep- long chatter and poise, his eyes svm- a brief flash of light upward curl to h well-cut lips. She was so covered with & happy confusion that she did not hear Mre. Cars Tarsh, nasal veice commanding her to] bring more butter from the cellar until the farmer's wife uttered her | order @ second time, Tn spite of the prodigious amonnt of food eaten, the meal was quickly It was not half-past eight Clam Carson raped back | wiping his mouth his n's when his chair, Now ly, Tl to clear the table and carson said briskly easure aud sugar tamorrow's tarmer's wife can't off this time ruit spoil Wiile Sally woiled supper ing e ad heen David N s leave you wash up,” Mrs I've got 40 blackberries jam-making. A ta Sunday “or satiou, instru hat sink. “Oh, wusternation, an't t Hom: toward the big pantry where Mrs. rson wis picking over her black- rrics ar 2 said fitmly, ik wash David | lishes at settled i, at us he was coneerned, trotting happily 2d cupboard stormy-eyed, S0 when sullen- tween tabl Pear] cam mouthe “Well sorker in, 1 musg and 1 napped he way you David 11 But say, you're & quick don’'t mean on at Sally, S have to study, suppos: and hetter sally your not 1 on you You'd ut right now, Miss that you t shirk this farm. That's led @ sob story vou find Ford, work on helping with the David interrupted in his firm, . quiet “Want to dis cloth | and help dry them?” There al twinkle in his eyes and he winked ever so slightly at Sally, got o dress. Tive or bnch coming over to the radio music you hear 1 said about Pearl answered, her shallow ves coquetting with David, “About me?” David pretended surprise. “Is t all, Sally? Well P to wy room and study awake. dance with n us,” Pearl wailed, her flat voice harsh with disappointme “T told Ross Willis to bring another partuer for himself, because 1 counting on you—" “Awfully sorry but T've study. I¢ though I told supper that I had to study.” reminded her mildly, but was the steel of determination Lis casual voice. Pearl flung out of the ler face twisted with grimaces of erying. “We'd bettor wash out rinse dish cloths,” David im- ¢ perturbably but his gold-flecked | €y and his streng, characterful mouth smiled at Sally, “My mother taught that—and & good muny other things, A little later, under cwisning of water in pan, David spok: voice to the girl who worked happily at his side “Take it as casy They'll work you to let them, And-—if you neeq any help, day or night,” hie emphasized the ords nificantly, so that once again a pulse of fear throbbed in ®ally’s throat, “just call on m« Remember, I'm an orphan myself. But it’s easier for a boy. The world can be mighty hard on a gir alone.” “Thank you Rally tremt voice scarcely a whisper, Carson was moving he pantry nearby. Fifteen minutes later. as ally | was sweeping the big kitchen, shouts of laughter and loud, g worda told her that the party of | farm girls and had arrived. With David gone to his garret room to study, Sally suddenly felt very small and forlorn, very much what had czlled her—a girl alone, The sounds of hoisterous gavety | penetrated to every corner of the | small house, but they echoed most | lbudly in Saly’s heart, For she | was 16 with all the desires and ns of any other girl of 16, gnd she loved parties, although she had never heen to a small, intimate one in a private home in all her life. &he leaned on her broom. trem- bling, Gesiring to have a good time ! fight with her institution-bred timidity., Then she looked down ! at her dress — the bl and-white- checked gingham, faded. dull, that | she had worn for months the orp’ 1ag. If they should come inte the kitchen any of those laughing. girls and bovs—and find lier the uniform of state eharity would despisc her, never dream of asking her to coms to danc Her hands broom fiereely v tirade ta was six to Did | you? blue of the land ar what I'll g0 on ile, if “You're with 1 can zoing to W stuy wiis got to you at David | Qiene | in then first room the and se said coy the in a roof th cranite dish low S0 you can death if you her Mrs. in the for vily hoys gay in they in, suddenly her Within her last had into th it aripp: a 1 | minnte task of brushed the black tin | into the | breathless | timidity ning 8 and dust pan, cmipti “ with 1 vouid overtake | stuirs to the cold little gorn lawt had on her trip Lxeitedly, 1 he o ogarret lisn of lipstic) tiptoed dowr 1 rh she David toor ajar, caught 2 alimnpe il it strong | gun, and | CHAPTET that & Vi i1 | Pearl ! iriends to | fu | that ! place AUTHOR OF “SAINT AND SINNER* ANNE AUSTIN moonlight 1, clasping her thin | but little hands tightly, spoke in a low.s share by passionate voiee dircetly to God. | Lrothers, who had no need for whom imagined bending Mis | David's labor in the summer, Fhe majestie head to listen | knew, too, from his modest repl “ON, thank you, God 10 questions asked by Ross Willis David like me, and for lettidg me | und Purdy Bates, that David was dance with him. And if dancing is | a star athlete, that he had already a sin, please forgive me, God, for | won his letter in football and that didn’t mean any harm. And he Lad been boxing champion of please make Pearl not hate me 0 | t sophomore class. Marvelous wuch just because David is sweet | David! to me. She bas so many friends| “But e nd father and mother and a | “He likes grandmother and a nice howe and | Bessic Coates many prety clothes, while | sl hayen't anything. Make her feel kinder toward me, dear God, and 'l work hard und be And please, God, keep nd body pure, like says” Lying in bed, covered night-gown brought from the orphanage, Sully did not feel the opp heat nor the hardness and himpiness of ker corn-shuck mattr was reliving 11 spent in the sponsored by o faced Divid who scemed determined to and her giggling, ch acerpt the timid crphan as an coual She felt heart at aeliberate that gleamed Pearl's pale blue as during that hour. healed by the Dlessed David's supionship. very still to recaptur David’s arm about her whirled her lightly the music for mysterionsly was being 1 worked rge family “on a of she for making likes me,” Sally exulted. than Pearl or Mullir 1 Lonestly, 4 T'm ar ‘in' for a better or added hecause 1 has it why Su 50 Suppose sorry for phan and P but T don't me, just g0 he i 7 me, he's nice to good! heart Ston S0 my s, care 12 radio music past eleven feard e stopped at half- Sully of swell forget tomorrow Sunda David O, for that Pearl! She's him and she'll lon’t look | Soon afterward good-nights “We had a only witl shouted the scant she had | Pearl's guests Poarl i time Pearl night hool. ¥ 1 vith ssive hous. i vou and Nome hring For she | S lour you! i a ap arson living room, | Mawia! watch haby-1s ot stern- orplin zot her ¢ beat | ou Sally tore t for i litl Yo you ice flame with Why did | girls b Dasty- again 1 her their veiled Paein S insuits nd ntrated L minded from | Wiy David things n their | so snuis, con at her il But hurt fact ) e Waist couldn’t e fricy like ti won they withont 2 Wiy rrull e fr teed hom Tier eyes \zain s thinki Diivid wouldn't litle gl No girl vid Nash wits of lay was ¢ “look™ o bliss of i i fox trot from orphans 15 was zood enough b told her he next morni to entice David into g ind Sehool sally 1 i best |k for in It ficreely i ing with 1o prepar linner Mis, to church in determination which S0 little hox with phonogriph Sions com cani failed to churel and the 1rson spite of il from 4 A lorn like o szain his p ke loudly aials and She heard pliment, spo Pearl to hiea “You'rc the dancer 1 ever danced th I'm zoing to ask you to the Prom nest year” Of cour: he had Pearl, too, und with th who had made at angled for compliments own dancing When he daneed ' th with Pearl, her husky voung hody | Su1ly d eloscly igainst it finger-tips audaciously golden crispness of his ) had even tried with David, stiffly, ofhor Sunday was | o enough for Sy . ing gone sturd canm v Sally. | her 8 David Kitelien, th W hite Junior smiling into immacnlate | need othey him on their with | shirt Tnnel girls, | trous eves pipe it “Mind kit s imming his, her pross fri brushed 1h sh mnl garret room’s | 15 an 1 nferno i i amy to danee bt he chicek-io love had heid to ha AT dry with the to told miake uten- cheek ack The Purdy to dance with had whispered commands: bhut o boys—Foss Willis an1 had not Sally them after Pearl bulf-audible, ticrec | sing their rudeness had | bird, Lo power to stll the little song of | you'rs thanksgiving that trilled in heart, for always David came to her, looking glad and and it was with her that between talking to hide ile Bates “Oh on'l nols 1 vou'd liks when asked niind Taughed “act 'l bet Your voice sings talki And any licate” compliment that— wish you sing even & wonan " herfa o hack | work relieyed And David sat | Sund her shy 50 Sally ¥ Sehool dances and entertainingly ilene: She sighed in ing sigh of pur: she lived again the Kitchen when washed gl the ethers They had wis widiay v o b David Zn h a Kitehen, erisp. ith golden lis ook in s m so 1d bent sivaling old tiny black his over Lzlly arand ind old tafteta, (it hy memery. a quiver pleasur: minutes in the and David had md plates, while danced in the parlor not reiurned, but to gether had slipped up the | stairs to the garret, David b her a cheerful good-night as urned into his own room to study v an hour hefore going to bLed She had during thos talks with David, that he vears old, that he had complet two years' work in the State cultural and Mechanical Colloge: he was working summers on farms as much for the practical | experience as for the money carned, for his ambition wag to be tific farmer, so that he the most of the farm would day inbierit from his grandfather. His grandfatier adjoined the Carson famm JUST KIDS HURRYT UP - :10SH 1S DOWNSTAIRS |AT THE PARLER WINDER! when sm S pipe from his she ot 3 A fushione had gone her saiddle-uged the hand, Benny his mother's loose so that nd show fiv st in st to o | half had strained frying to could Sally her his bright ved neck at which the of his frec As sln v mouth cart-telt son ek ding h e Kiss t yEers learns and plucked excitedly membered th vacant yes, that s ICININ sy ze 10 4 1ean of thanksgiving 1 Agri- | § sonz chin Count vour hlessings! Name them one by Count your many blessings See what God hath done! a sden might make which he some s| on e ctimes danes e She mind; had sl W could =00 Pretty <he and she sing | t T t s: v i |1 ¥ t a 1 ' t Sunday I Kitehen, lier i [ 1 mealy-mouthed i1 Kl i 1 \ redito, children David! only blessings old mother and a new But wasn't a old mother, vague, such a big blc made up for contracted she thought of the again door liked her — and David, Poor half-wit Benny, whose were a dim little red necktie! mother—even an old, whose own eyes were ing that she nearly everything else hat God could give? But she resolutely ache in her heart—an ache that it sharply every time mother she had hegan to sing THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Alpbabetically Arianged for Quick and Ready Reference LINBE RATES for CONSECUTIVE INSERTIONS Yoariy Order Rates Upon Application Charge banished the Prepatd 1 line 10 1 line 2 1 line Count 6 words to a ifne. 14 lines to an inch. Minimum Space 3 linea. Minimum Book Charge, S8 cents Closing time 1 P. M. daily; 10 A. M Saturday. Telephone 9 rate. Notify the Herald at once It your {[{sa 1o mcorrect. Not ‘responstuie’ for srrore aiter the frst insertion. never known—ar s “T think when.T re sweet | story of cld, When Jesus was men, How He called little children as | lainks 1o His fold—" 1d that here among 5. Ask for ez time The opening and closing of the | startled David was here, smiling a | “Won't you sing ‘Always’ for me, | ally ? Its a =0 just out. goes something like this—" And began to hum, breaking into | Is now and then: “T'll be lov- ng you—alwuys! Not for just an our, not for just a day, not “So this is why yvou wouldnr't go | o chiurch with me!™ a shrill voice, with anger, broke into | he singing lesson. ‘- They had not heard her, in their | hsorption in the song and in | weh other, hut Pearl had come into le throngh the front deor, nd confronting them now in he doorway between dining rooms nd Kitehen 1 thousght oniethi hing 1 new - Notice | e Board of Adiustment will liear the following petitions for Zone changes on Wednesday evening, April 11, 1928, at 30 o'clock in Roon: 208, City Hall Building, New Britain, Conn. +Jos. Arbour, et al.—extension vo Jassionate of of Whiting Street. Joseph Curioni—change on Oak street, hetween Street and Allen Street, from dence “C” to Business “B A. W, Vibberts, et al.—extension Business “B" zone northerly cast side of Stanley Strect of zon: Lasalle I houst was of the the Charles Giedraitis. Thos. C. Smith, Jr. change of zone on the | Stanley Street between {and Lonz Street, from |1 to Business “B" J. McCarthy—change 7one of his property on the side of Stanley Street, from strect—=251.5" northerly from [dence “B” ang “C” to Business New Briaain, Conn, March You two were up to cried. “It's & good | when T did, or | wouldu't be any Do you know why Sully Ford?” she inte fhe fands on lier hips, her ingers digging spasmodically into flosh that buiged under the silk, ! “Not o Sally zasped. vetreating il she was halted by the kitehen bl “T'm cooking dinner, 1l Ul e on time “Don’t Pearl’ me! uriated Fereuimed, little I cane dismen to ' she came Toni there et al.—for west side of Peck Street Residence inner, Loms 1 canie cnnand vanein in west Long Charles ready in- “You hypoerite! ome: 1) 1] bar-pin | a Chr ’ nd T remembered Sund hool that you th glrl or AD Thomas Linds I why my tell you oulidn’t gind hat Papa gay wrescnt last year., when 1 "Public Auction - mas Martha Chapter, No. ¢ will hold a food sale in West Main §1. Friday from 1:30 until bread, pies, cookies like Members will hutions early. —Advt, wis VN wl pick up partor last night. | little thief! Give it to (RN for the sherif (TO BE CONTINUED) [ENTYRV] vou stoop omething in the after- Home crullers ou noon | made fand | mak Lael cakes, mother used lring N OF CLAIS 1o folden Hor Britain the Warm Spring Days ar and nited ' for 1 tthei Exern e 1 e s wirect public notica [ ing in New Brit uoin sail copy there: a With a Good Used Car wlar The antomobile dealers of el Britain are GAFENEY, Judg New vour selection hundreds of good displaying for ORDER used automobiles. 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