New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 7

— — — ~ = = ——\ a——— f—y- = —_— THIS HAS HAPPENED Orchid® real name is Ashtdreth —Ashtoreth Ashe. Hre mother, a ro- mantic woman, named her for the mooa goddess of ancient Egypt—the love goddess to whom Egyptian wo- men prayed. A rather absurd same —and yet it seemed, peculiarly, to suit the girl. For she is extrordi- narily beautiful, in an unusual ana exotic sort of way. Hollis Hart, the famous financiev, was immensely dmpressed the first time he saw her—and Hollis Hart ‘was Rot a susceptible person. He was, in fact, ene of the wealthiest and most eligible bachelors 1in America. Ashtoreth went to work for Hart, Lee, Inc., when she was 18 years old. Hart, at the thne, must have been nearly 50—old enough to be ‘her father, Ashtoreth rather swept him off his feet the first day she entered his office. No ene knew how to dress more successtully than Ash- toreth. On $18 she could look like & rich man's daughter, Shs wore black exclusively. And on this par- ticular day happenedd to be wearing & most unusual ring that attracted her employer's attention. An imita- tiGa staradb. Hart, interested in ar- cheology, noticed it fmmediately. ‘When he commented upon it, Ash- toreth spoke casually of Egypt ane of Cleopatra. Hart, impressed by her rather unusual familiarity with the customs and mannérs of ancient Egypt, engaged Mer in conversation. He learned that her name was thar of the old moon oddess. Tremen- dously surprised, he shows an un- usual interest in the new stenog- rapher. And Astoreth thrilled by his attention, takes his dictation with her head in a lovely whirl. That night she reads about Cleo- patra until dawn, becaust—in real- ity—she had pretended a knowledge of things with which she was not at all familiar. She goes to work hoping that Mr. Hart will speak of Cleopatra again, so that she may air her new knowledge. To her intense surprise he sum- mons her to ask her opinion re- garding & letter he has just re. celved. Dumfounded, she takes it from his hand. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER 1T Tt was an amazing letter. Inscrip- ed on expenxive stationery. Heavy with foreign sesnt. The girl who wrote it had used green ink and a stub pen. She wrote violently. A round, childish hand, sparing neith- er endearments nor threata. “Dearest Holly,” she demanded, Why don’t you phone me? Where were you every night last week? I'm just crazy about you, Holfy. I can't read. Ican't eat, T can't sleep—oh God, how I suffer! You don't know the way a loving girl can suffer or you wouldn't leave me alone with my thoughts and misery. I get so desperate thinking about you, and have you gone back on me? I guess you think you can break my heart and walk all over me, " after you made me so0 crazy about you. But I'm not one of the kind you can cast off like an old shoe. I guess you knew what the poet eaid about helt doesn’t know any fury like woman when you g2t through with her. But you're not through with me, are you, dear? T guems I'm sort of erazy because I love you, ane you don’t come to see me any modre, Someone told wme T got e g004 case against you with the apartment all furnished and everything. But God knows I don’t want to do anything like that. Maybe you think Y am crazy, raving on like this. But T thought you didn’t get my mes. sage that T left on the tele. phone, and you would get mad it I went to see you like vou teld me not to. 8o please come Batk to your loving MAE Ashtoreth handed the eurprising communication back to her employ- | er. Acutely uncomfortable, she stood | rigidly by his desk. i “t do not understand” she said. | “why you wished me to read your | most personal correspondence.” “Becauge,” he explained, “I want- &4 to get your reaetion. I wanted 6 ged the effect of a lotter like thar on & girl like you. A ‘whim, per- | hape. “Mas de Marr worked in thia office énce. A filing clerk, T be. | Heve. T wondered how manv girls like het there are out there. 1/ thought, perhaps, you could téil me Ashtoreth raised her head “1 am afraid.” she maid, “that 1| eannot help you. T wonder why you | thomght T could.” \ “1 hops T have nét 8ffended you.” | he apologisad. “I aseure §ou there wa# nothing at all personal in mv inquiry. I'm gimply interested in this modern girl proposition. 4 thought mayvbe you conld hélp e nee the light. He came then, and stood in fFORt 6t her. | “Please, Miss Ashe,” he appealed boyishly, “tell me—what's it Al | about? They say modern girls aré sélt-respecting. We hear so much about the medern girl and her - dependénce. Tt's jhst a 16t of non- sense, Isn’t 1t? Beé & good sport, Miss Ashe=héw ~many Mae de Marrs have I out there?” “You miean,” she askéd evenly, “how many girly would let you set ' them up In an apartment, and B& prépared, when you had tired of them. to step out ©f the picture?* My gosh. Miss Ashe!"” Hart explored his pockets vously for eigarots. “Hold 6n a minute. You've got meé quite wrong. I wasn't—if you'll pArdon the expréssion—keepink Mise de Matr. 8he came t6 me @& féw months ago with a hard luck story. | T was sorry for the girl. She's gome- | LI _~ e e by o E34 > —— \P 9 —— — — — SShRp e 1 | her out. There'd been a it of dal and the ol folks were much upset. It may ovom & Quixotic, but—well, truth——"" Mr. Hart paused to light and Ashtoreth scrébbied otic” on the cover of her Something else to lodk wp in the Ut |brary. Ghastly hdw maay thi: girl didn't know. if they all khew what it mokat. He glanced at her quickly as she slipped her pencil back in place. Bu. her hands were folded now a8 be- fore, quietly tn her Wp. My secretary,” he informed her surprisingly, “has & porfoct pamdon | for cats. A few mpnths ago he sug- | gested that we endow something-or- | other for homeless Tolinoh A hos- pital, T think it was—aa asylum Yor | indigent animals. Dogs, tod, | remember correctly. He persuaded | me to sign a check for $10,000, “Well, he hadn't teea out of here 110 minutes — with my check in his pocket — whea in walks this lttle De Marr. Crying her eyes eut. It | was about six o'clock, She'd walted. I suppove, until the rest of the girls had gone. I was walting mysel! for a telephone eall. “Now—J wonder if can make myself clear — Mr. Higgtns goes in, you see, Yor dumd animals. Well, here Was & dumb woman. And, it Yloek of cats is worth $10,000, how much, I asked myzelf, 15 & woman woMh? If & man ¢an endow a homa for animala, to keep them off the streets, how about a girl? How much was it worth to keep her otz the streets?” Mr. Hart paused. “A purely thetorical question,” he atsured her. “1 was merely speculat- ing. It's puzkling—the ralative value of things. Particularly when & ma with a philanthropic bent acquires & great deal of money. “Can you imagine, Miss Aahe, having & much money that 1t doesn’t make any difference—to me, I mean — whether I apend {t on starving cats or foolish girla?" “You doa't really mean that? she gasped. “Well," he admitted, ‘“thers s more kick, of course, in epending it on girls. Cats are e8 uhdemon- strative, don't you khow. Anyhow I reckoned it would be more fun &quandering & few thowsand on the little De Marr. A better retuen, mvunx;:itht say, on the investment.” Ashtoreth straightned unedn. stiously in het high:backed chate, “No” he murmured, “I alaan |mean that at all. My word, you are a suspicious young petson. My motives, I asbure you, Ware entire- Iy reapectable. Only I'd- rather in- cur the gratitude of a pretty gir than the feline caressed of the beat dam’ Maitest fn Boston. An en. tirely masculine point of view, Perhaps you do net appreciate e, Miss Ashe” “Oh. yes” she retorted, " quite understand.” Plat Plati Jewelers For ~Génératidns &\ ~FROM Gruén 15 jewel Btrap Watches from ........ N —_— A= Sy &(CS JaTa\ e “Miss de Marr,” he resumea, “talks a lot about the ‘modern girl’ Now I wonder what it 1s, Miss Ashe, that makes people do that.” He smiled ingratiatingly and Ash- toreth ndticed the Rumorous little life of an eyebrow. He was, really, she deci@ed, guite charming. “Youwd think,” he c¢omplainea, an entirely new spe- papers prate of her. and the reformers. And the best sellers are al abput her. The gen- eral opinibn deems 1o be that this so-calied medern girl is a paragon Of all the recent virtwes. Honeat, feariess, clear thinking, independent “Perdonally, I'm beginning to think she's a good dead of a fraua. Tt sbemd to me that ahe's pretty proficiont in most of the old-time vices. 1 might almost say that she practices them exclusively. Ana this war ery of hers == ‘Indéepend- once and Ryual Rights!’ i rather & lot of hokum,” However, Misg de | Marr may Do an exception, or tourse. That’s what I'd like you to tell me.” CHAPTER 111 Ashtoreth had bought a gardenta ! on her way to work, and pinned it | on Rér showlder. It was a reckless | extravagance, to be paid for witn varidus smail economies. Hollis Hart reflected that he had never before seen a gardenia on a stenographer, Violets and sweet | peas — yes. And orchids, dccasion- ally, But hever a gardenia, small and well bred, on a slender crepe- clad ehoulder. He had & mental picture of Mise | de Marr as #he had invaded his office. He remémbered the triple string of long imitation pearls tha. beat against buttons of her blouss, And the angle &f her ear rings. There was something metalic about Mae. And much that was soft, besides. 8he was a clinging little thinm, redolent 6f eheap, sweet perfume. et bely wak amall and lovely. 8ne feminded him of a plump Dresden figure on Auht Meg's mantel. Thy Dresden lady coquetted with a chima #oldler, and Mae's technique, he thought, Was much the samé. The way she elung and releed her eyes s0 shyly. “Well, ak I was baying." he cén- tinued, “Miss de Mart came on the heela of Mr. Higgins, who had just Walked out, vou remember, with my check for $10,000 in his pockat. “'She had been crying furiously, and het eyes were red and awollen. Nobody could possibly accuse me, Mias Ash, 6t being enraptured with the girl's beauty. Bhe was positively plain. But the most piteous littie spectacie I ever saw. “Thete was & man, of course. He Rad violated, it #etmed, her girlien faith and trust. Of so, At least, she #aid. Hér fathsr had heard of the affair and had been to the m ineisting that he marry the g But the fellow was already married. “Well the De Mair parents wern — e A A | little devil. | about, appatently hasty, They wounded Mas in the tenderest apots and cast THE MODEET inum and Diamend Brooches priced upwards from .. inum Broochés mountéd with eemi-preciotis stones;, from .... Lavallieres and pendants, engraved in white goi€. Crystal, set plocés pricsd upwards from Otfier begutiful pleces from Platinum and white gold Diamond sét Bracelets priced from Gruen 15 jewel Watches, 14 kt. s011@ gold chdes, priced at ... Others up to $550 $22.50., LITTLE - NOVELTY 8FLLS FOR ONE DOLLAR AND A8 MU AB YOU WIEH TO SPEND. ——— \ = f—3 7 f=—FICTION [ — e her out in the cold. There must have been a terrific scene, and Mae, @8 a result, contracted a severe HI- ness, wandering around that night in the snow. Exactly like an old melodrama, vou see. “A policeman picked het up and took her to the City hospital. She was there Yor three weeks, with no one, she wept, to care whether she lvd or died. When she had re- covered sufficiently to be dismisseq she came back here to work, " nothing had happened. After an unexplained absence, mind you, o» three wecks. “There had been unpleasant stories, of course, ahout the poor And our office man- ager, being a stern and virtuous woman, gave her two weeks' pay and dismissed ‘her then and there." Mr. Hart paused. “Do I make her sound pathetic™ he queetioned. “Because I mistn't let you think I was too easily taken in. She was, I swear, the most helpless creature I ever laid eyes on.” Ashtoreth smiled. “Qidn’t you know,” &he asked. “that she might have gone to any one of several societies that woul? have loaned her money, and helped her on her feet again?" “Ys” he admitted, “I knew It But I don't think she did. 8he wan 80 darn ineffectyal, don't you see. Like a little soiled kitten, buffeted Berides, T supposed T wam rather flattered that she had come to me 60 trustingly. Anyhow—te made a long story short—I apons- gized for Mrs. Mason, who'd ds- charged the poor kid without the slightest appreciation of the situ- ation, And I said T felt that I should make some sort of amends for the anguish and all that sort of thing her summary dismissa had occasionel.” Ashtoreth’s heart beat. excitedly, and she felt all queer and quivery inside. “But Mre. Mason was right,” she maintained, a little frightened as she took iseue with her employer. “There would b no efficlency in your office if she tolerated Mae de Marrs out there. And without an efficient personnel von wouldnn have g0 much money to spend. That i, T suppose vou wouldn't. Not \u the long run, I mean. A day woula come when the Hart millions would dwindle and vanish. And the per- petuity of your benevolences would be defeated.” Mer eloquence embarrassed her. She wondered if Mr. what ghe wag trying to say. If &he had chosen her words correctly. Yr, perhaps, she was belng absurd, ana amazingly preposterous. But looked at her with quick approvas, and inclined his head gravely. “Minerva,” he said. “has spoken.” “Oh!" she crird, “You are being unkind. You asked me to tell yon what I thought, and now you arw making fun!" “No,” he contradicted, T rm auite serious. The name of tne goddess of wisdom wout have fit- Choicest Gifts Displayed For Your Leisurely Pleasurable Choosing THAT H MORK $10.00 platinum and Diathonds and Sapphires. Diamond «» $200.00 Hart knew | he | | class. Swearing allegiance to | radiant in dreadful finery, the words { vour mother," ted you as perfectly as that ef the goddess of 16ve. Some time, Miss Ashe, I hope you will tell me the personal significance of your name. Your mother, perhaps, is a student of Egyptology ™" Ashtoreth thought of her plump, jolly mother. Gay and gariah in royal purple. Her poor puffy feet cramped in too-tight patent leath- ers. Her peroxide yellow shitgle fringing the Pack of her violet teque. Synthetic amethysts dane gling from her elongated ear lobes, and a double string swinging against her great deep bosom. Ashtoreth despised herself for being even mentally disloyal to her mother. 8he hated herself now for the lie she told. “‘Oh, yes,” she said, “mother sim- ply dotes on archaeology.” She wondered if Mr. Hart saw the tell-tale flush that suffused her pale face and left her déathly white. “ e When Ashtoréth was a little girl and went to convent school, she took & solemn oath in confirmation God, she had earnestly affirmed that she would “rather die than deny Him.» The words had always remainea in hér mind. Only now they scemea 10 refer to her mother. Whenever, with & heart-sickening wave of re. vulsion, she saw Mazie, cheap and flashed again through her conscloun- ness. “Rather die than deny her"— good, dear, hopeless Malele. spend exactly as you choose.’ ** Ashtoreth's eyes widened. “You did!" phe cried. really did? “I did,” he affirmed gravely. took several minutes to convince the ydung lady of the purity ana authenticity 6f my offer. 8he criea some more. It was most embarras- sing, really. But, finally she stuck my check in her bag and promisea 0 keep in touch with me until she &ot strajghtened out. “The next day she telephoned, and that evening I went to see the apartment she’d takn. One of those new 6nes on Commonwealth avenue. Bhe'd been shopping all ay, and had the things sent di- rectly out. My God, Miss Ashe, ity was horrible! “Over-stuffed things, covered in | purple taffeta. And lamps, drip- ping all sorts of fringe. Bhiny | shings with spindle legs. And rugs | with Blue snakes writhing all over them.” ) That, reflectcd Aslitoreth, was éx- {actly the sort of room that Maizi | 16ved to vision. Dariing Maia made the most awful lamp s | pillows, and was buying an imitation Chincse rug on the instaliment plan “And clothes!” Mr. Hart wa saying: “The place was full ¢ them. Theré was a fur scasf an {a hat that simply smothered th child, Big as a cart wheel. £k {tried it on ard flung the e | across her shouldars, and strutt {ahout llke Pexgy Joyee on th “I should like so much t6 meet said Mr. Hart po- litely. And Ashtoreth felt suddenly an3 acutely 11 *T know,” she murmured, “that vou would think her quite delight ful. 8ne i very charming.” And all the while her craven lit- tle heart was vowing, “Oh, never —never!" And her soul wam weeping . . . “Mother! Mother, forgive me, dear.* And she was consumed with absurd desires, such as to buy her mother \whole hottles of per- fume, and boxes of scented soap, and purple wrappers, and silk un- derwear, and to put feather pillows at her back. and birds of paradise on her singled head, and present her with chocolate creams and ah the simple, awful things poor Maizie Joved. ®o that she mighe make amends for having denied her. M¢. Hart interrupted her itable musinge. “Well.” he said, “back t& the Itt- tle De Marr. 1 said te her—'Mim de Marr," I faid, ‘I'm going to give you a present, without any strings at all. Ten thousand dellars, te char- hoardwalk. Then she got | inte | rome pink thing with a lot of | feathers on, and made a welsh rah- bit. { "It was fun, don't you know. an! 1 took to dropping in pretty regu {tarly. T suppose 1 was rather a i chump, for T brought her little sur | prises” Tnexpensive jewelry and a | frock ér two. “And a few weeks later T helpe! her gét a tryout, minging over the radis, It had been her great am- bition for a long time, and whe théy engaged her reégularly she was proud as Punch. After that | didn’t see her so often. I telo phoned occasionally, and several times a man's voice answered. 1 hssumed Mae had taken up with 2 boy frieid, as she'd say. And that was abBout all thére was to it. ‘Then this morning 1 received this letter — and there's the whele story in a nutshell. Some one, ap parently, has taken Miss de Marr in hand. Ahd now there's going to Dbe the devil of & row.” Hollis Hart concluded his nar- rative and looked to Ashtoreth for comment. “Well” he demanded, “what do you think of that to¢ a medern, self- ANNOUNCEMENT THE BURRITT ART SHOP Formarly lovated at 85 West Main Bt., s hew being operated in con- . junction with AXELROD'S PHARMACY ot 38 Broad Bt, cor. 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