New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 2

THIS HAS HAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, beautiful stenog- rapher, appears 0 have made a de- | cided impression upon Hollis Hart, her wealthy employer, when in breezes little Sadie Morton, known to Mr. Hart as Mae de Marr. Sadie, frivolous and tawdry, has accepted an extraordinary gift of $10,000 from the rather quixotic millionaire. He is astonished when he discovers that she and Ashtoreth ure old friends. And Ashtoreth is afraid that he will be no longer in- terested in her. She goes with Sadie to the grand apartment Tented and furnished through the benevolence of Mr. Hart. And there Sadie airs a gold- digger’s views on men and morals. Ashtoreth sccures from her a partial | will not attempt to tor, and re- promise that she blackmail her bene turns to the office, Yerhaps, after all in the good gr Mr. Hart. At the end of the day she home in great good humor, bear- ing gifts to DMalizie, her good- hearted and rather commonplace mother. Maizie tells her that Monty English is coming to call. Ashtoreth throws up her hands. Your're just naturally bound to marry off 3 3 d.'mghh‘r aren’t you, ) beneath her banter there is a shade o annoyance. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VIIT At cigh to'clock Monty arrived. GANNe, faizie w that meant. of_thinking, was o vomng man. H tall and blond. : *Nordie,” Ashtoreth said. then Maizie wasn't surc about that cither. His halr was crisp. Bleached by the sun on top and sort of coppery down roots. He hal Lrown with flecks in them and a big, good-humored mouth. When he smiled it began with a crifikle at the corners of his eves dnd eMded in a quirk at the cor- acrs of his mouth. And he had she will remain of the famous goes Engimu Ashtoreth called himn. not at all sure what Monty, to her way fine, upstanding was young and axttaordinarily goci-looking teeth. | White as snow, or clouds, or a clean | white shroud. So white they really sk Monty English s0ld radios and pléyed a ukulele. He danced like a professional, or a dream coms true. And he made love the way ~very girl wonders why men don’t. It was strange, then, that “not register with Ashtoreth. May- be he talked too much about ra- dios. And radios bored Ashtoreth. She wondered why he never dis- covered it. He brought a hox of gluce fruits fog,Maizie. When Maizle expressed pleference, Monty never forgot, fou girls want to go to lovos 7" hednvited. Mut Maizi§ protested coyly, vou young folks want to talk.” At nine o'clock in the gas oven and cooked cheese with cggs and tomato, ing dish. Theh she made the coffee «nd cut huge pieces of fudge cake known as Wellesley. At 10 she had a headache and went to bed, with sly backward xlances and playful admon.tions. “Ash.” salg Monty English when Malsie had clesed her hedroom door, “wi've knowh each other for three Years now. mag to adore a girl know he's livin, Ashtoreth . began, gather the cfffee cups. “Oh, please, Monty!” tested. “Put that stuff dered, “and listen.” “But we've been over often!” she objected ‘No, we haven't,” he told her. “This is something new, Ash. I'm just through bheing a doormat— that's all. I'm signing off tonight, littte girl. John Sap speaking. who doesn't absently, to down,” he or-| it so greatly relieved. i | But | he did | won, | she made toast | in the chaf- | That's a long time for a | she pro- Signing off for good and all. He spoke lightly, but there was an air of finality in the things he | said. So that Ashtoreth felt a queer | little tightening around her heart. Dear old Monty! Why, he was | almost as inevitable as Maizie. Not | that she loved him. But she was| 50 used to him! And hg {fun — when he wasn't trying to| | make love. They danced very well |together. And she had growa to ! depend upon Marty for an occa- sional evening at the theater or the | movies. { In the summertime they went riding every night—or almost every night. Maizie usually went along, too. If she didn't, Monty alway wanted to park somewhere. They| went often to roadhouses, and patronized ail the lobster shacks along the shore. The previous win- ter they had taken an evening course together at Harvard, and another at Boston University. Con- !temporary Literature, and the Classics. | 1t was fun talking to Monty, too. | |He had such a humorous way of |looking at things. Cynical, of course. But that was such a re- llef after Maizie's Pollyanna phi- losophy. Why, she'd miss him feartully! “Could it be,” he was demanding | plaintivel; hen 1 was young, someone dropped me on my head? { What's that matter with me, Ash? | You can't see me at all, can you?" | “There's nothing the matter with |vou, Monty,” she assured him. “I —1I just don't love yo “That's the answer!” he tri- umphed. “If T was all right, I could make you love me, Ash.” e ground a cigaret in Maizie's begonia pot. “1 love you so dam’ much,” he complained,. “that it seems like vyou'd have to love me just a little. Only things ‘don’t work out that way.” He came then and stood in front of her and laughed a little, whim- { "H.\\c you any specifications hl) mind?” he asked. *“Maybe if H |knew just what it is goes best I'd | | get myselt made over, darlin.® | was such Ashtoreth smiled. | “Light of my life* she said. “It's | mighty things 1 want." i “What?" he begged. | *“Oh, a nice lttle place on the | Riviera,” she parried. “And a dia- mond tlara — what is & tiara, Mon- ty? And a Rolls-Royce, maybe. {And a box at the opera and a house on the hill. And then just a few {fittle fixings — vou know—maids land gowns, and jewels in a safe de- | posit vault, and paste for every day.” onty 1it another clgaret. ou know,” he remarked even- "I think there’s more truth |than poetry in that, Ash. You| | wouldn't let yourself love a radio | salesman in a eity full of rich guys, | would you?" “Oh, T don’t know,” she laughed. “If he had a heart of gold I might.| By the way — speaking of gold-dig- gers—I saw Sadi» Morton today.” | “Sadie Morton?" he repeated. |“On, yes, I remember. The rip- |roaring little “it' girl. Simply bubbling over with animal spirits, 1 suppose?” { “No,* Ashtoreth told him. “She {was quite subdued. She grabbed /810,000 a little while ago and s+ & | gone: completely through it. Now | ! she’s bezinning to be worried.” onty whistled n thousand berries! I's dumb as an oyster!” htorcth was silent, ‘Well,” he said. “she must have been a great inspiration for you, | Ash. Ten thousand dollars for a | moron like Sadie! And then I got |the nerve to ask you to tie up vith |a’guy like me. A high-class model [like you. 1t Sadie's charms are | worth 10 thou on the hoof, yours lare worth a million, sweetheart.” And the | | “Monty!” she cried. “You're ab- | solutelv insulting.”™ ; “Maybe,” he acknowledged gmcn-; 1 VAT e 01- R uq “This is something new, Ash. I'm NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928, 2 Yq. ER ”u- I~rel [ hrough being a doormat. I'm signing off tonight. John Sapp speaking. Signing off for good and alL.” “But I'm through anyhow. |And 1 know you're not sh any tears over that. There's no sense, sweetheart, hanging around and scaring good Dets off. “Oh, Monty," she cric vulgar as Sadie! Don't that.” “I was only kidding” he apolo- glzed, and added, hatefully, “There’s many a true word spoken lessly. “'you're talk she commanded, “tell me the truth. You don’t think I'm a gold-digger? You couldn’t think that! Why, Monty, I simply abom- inate them! Girls like 3Badie — they make me sick!" She glanced nervously at the clos- ed door of Maizie’s room and low- ered her voice. “Listen, Monty — T wouldn'¢' talk this way to anyone but you. You know how much I Tlove- Mother. That's why I couldn’t say this to anyone else. They might think 1 didn't love her. But—you know er, Monty. And you know how sweet and good, and self-sacrificing she is. That's why T feel like a perfect snake, saying such a thing.” Monty stood up. “Don't say it, then,” he advised. “Putting your mother on the pan doesn't rate a thing with me, Ash.” Ashtoreth’s face turned scarlet. “You deliberately misunderstood me!"” she flared angrily. “I simp- ly worship the ground my mother walks on—and you know it! I was cenly going to say! “No, you weren't, sharply. a thing." “I was merely remarking,” she insisted, “that, much as 1 adore my mother, can't help realiz- ing—" Monty clapped his hand over her mouth. And then, folding her In the hollow of his arm, drew her head back and Kissed her eyelids. She leaned against him and held his arms about her shoulders. “Don’t let's quarrel,” she mur- mured. “You know,” he cut in “You weren't going to say 1 he said irrelevantly, The Toonerville Trolley That Meets Al the Trains. By Fontaine Fox. THE FREQUENCY WITH wmcn THE ¢AR HAS BfEN -runmh!a OVER OF LATE MAY.S$0LVE THAT HALF FARE PROBLEM. dding | like | “you've the most beautiful eyellds in the world. Did you ever notice how few women have lovely ey lids? Yours are like a Madonna's, Ahstoreth. So delicately white. 'Did you know they’ve little blue tendrils in them? Don't ever cry, and spoil them, will you, sweet- heart?"* He kissed them agaln, derly. But he did not very ten- touch her lips, even when sho raised her mouth and pouted provocatively. “I'm going to New York,” he toid her, holding her against him. “And it might as well be China. Be. cause I'm not coming around any more, Ashtoreth. I'll be selling from the home office, and traveling vest, out of New York. ‘A temporary transfer sh asked. “No. T asked for it,” he told her. “I tell you, Ash, there's no sense in my ruining all your prospects. 1 haven't a Chinaman's chance my- self. Not until 1 crash through and make a milllon. And since you can't love me you might just as well love somebody else. Some- body who'll make you happier may- be than I could ever make you— though God knows he wouldn't try any harder. “But he'll have to be a prince, Ash, or I'll come back and finish him. I'm not stepping aside for any flat tire, little girl. You pick him pretty now, or I'll be doing time for manslaughter. Because I'm going to pop off any egg that isn't what you might call worthy of being my successor. “No kidding, Ash. The best is none too good for you. I'll tell the world, honey, that you can call your own. And don't forget it.”" Monty lit another cigaret. “With those few words,”” he an- nounced, *‘the hero withdraws.” But Ashtoreth, womanlike, could not dismiss, in a moment, a re- nunciation that dramatically might | be prolonged. “You'll write me,” she pleaded. “And TI'll be your very best friend —forever and forever. And if you get dreadfully lonely, you'll come home again? It isn't like saying goodby, Monty — not really, 1 mean.” But Monty shrugged his broad shoulders. “It strikes me,” he declared, “that Tostt and I sang our little swan songs in the same key” . . and, striking s tragedian's Amtude. proclaimed the immortal words of that sad farwell: *‘Goodby to hope! Goodby to pain! Goodby forever! Goodby!" He laughed shortly. embarrassed. perhaps, because the scenc savored of heroics. He held her tightly, and her bhair caught on a button of his coat. “Goodby, littie sweetheart.” His lips were close against her neck, 50 that his breath made little shiv. ers ripple along her flesh. “I love you—love you!" But Ashtoreth, holding her head 50 that the hair did not pull, scarcely heard him. 8he was think- ing of Hollis Hart. TO BE CONTINUED) CONTRACT PROBE ON N CHICAGD Start Inguiry Into Board of - Education Chicago, Dec. 15 UP—Investiga- tion of what the Herald and Exam- iner describes as "“a far-reaching conspiracy to buy gnd sell contracts for board of education bullding work” has been started by the state’s attorney following a dicta- graph investigation” conducted by the newspaper. State’s Attorney John A. 8wan- son and H. Wallace Caldwell, presi- dent of the achool board, have questioned several persons whoae names were contained in the steno- graphic notes taken from the “whispering wires” by representa- tives of the newspaper. Roy W. Ammel, a broker repre- senting cut stone contractors seek- ing a share of the school building business, was named as the man who assisted in obtaining much of the evidence on which the inquiry is based. M y Charged The alleged irregularities had to do with efforts of a group of cut stone contractors to obtain work on school buildings which for four years has been monopolized by ter- ra Cotta manufacturers. Ammel, was engaged to represent the atone men in the efort to get some of the s¢hool \business. Ammel dealt first with one offi. cial then another, he sald. A dicto- graph was installed in Amniel's of- fice by the Herald and Examiner and representatives of the newspap- er listened while Ammel tatked with reputed go-betweens of the “hign- er-ups” until, as the paper said. “the whole thing was dragged into the light.” “These underlings,” the newspa- per continued, peated promises of contracts to put Ammel’'s men in the money,’ and they talked giibly of a complete honeycombing of the educational system by organized buying and selling public President Caldwell said he had been conducting a personal investl- gation and had dealt particularly with the terra cotta contracts. “I found,” he said, “that rings con. trolled the awarding of contracts. These rings are compesed of board employes so bold they refuse In- structions from their superiors and even ignore the president of the board."” Caldwell added that the whole ad- ministratition of achool money, ex- cept only the educational fund, “seems to have suffered from the organized looting." Caldwell has headed the board only since last summer, when it was reorganized following the ousting of illlam McAndrew as superintend- ent, TRY OUT NEW ENGINE Garden City, N. Y., Dec. 15 (M— A Curtiss “8ea Hawk” airplane, as is tional advisory committee for aero- nautica to add to the speed of planes. The new cowling or covering, which' resembles & huge bowl with the center cut out of it, demonstrat- ed in tests at Langley fleld that the principal objection to the use of air- cooled motors in airplanes has beer eliminated. ‘The exposed ecylinders of alr. cooled engines as they are now in. stalled on airplanes offer great re- sistance to the air through which they must pass, slowing the plane's progress. The new covering pro- vides ample air for cooling the cyl- inders, but “streamlines” them in such a way that the resistance s cut down and speed materially increased. The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor company is trying the new cowling on its “Sea Hawk" NEFTRGEUSIL, O, %