New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 15

P— — e THIS HAS HAPPENED Astoreth Ashe, beautiful stenog- rapher, has assumed a strange role in the office of her multi-millionaire employer. Hollis Hart, old enough to be her father, takes her unexpected- ly iInte his confidence. He tells her ©f his fleeting’interest in a girl call- ed Mae de Marr, a filing clerk at the office, who has cast herself upon his chivalry. Because he is a ond enormously wealthy besides ~—Hart has given the De Marr girl $10,000, To his chagrin she threatens, when he tires of her inanities, to e him.. As he re. counts the situation to Ashto- reth, Mae breeses into the office. Sadie recognizes her immediate. 1y as an old friend—Sadie Morton. Ir the little scene that follows, Sa- die admits she has changed her name for professional reagons. Hart iz astonished that Ashtoreth—so ex. quisitely lovely and gastidious — shoyld ever have been intimate with Bade.: Ashtoreth in afraid e has forfeited his dawning interest. There is anotehr man dn Ashto. reth’s life—Monty English, who sells radios Ashtoreth’s mother, Maisie, approves of Monty., But Ashtoreth when she learns that he has asked for a transfer to New York, is rath- or relieved. She lets him kiss her goodby. But her thoughts are with Hollls She will see him tomorrow y her old friend- ship with Sadie. She can assure him, also, that Sadie has prom- ised to make no further trouble. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY X CHAPTER IX But Ashtoreth did not see Hollis Hart the next day. Nor the next. Nor for many weeks. It wag rumored that he had gone abrosd. Quite alone, and to escape some entangling alliance. There was a story smeared across the front page of & newspa- per deveted to scandal: “Boston Milllonaire ¥lees Pretty Stenog.” ‘Hollis Hart's name was not men- tioned in the narrative, but the in- ference was obviou: A score of papers appeared that morning In the effice, and were surreptitiously devoured in the so-called “ladies™ washroem. ‘Mae de Marr's got him scared.” the girls said, and bets were placed that she had accompanied him. Ashtoreth knew better than that. But she wondered if his lawyer had been in touch with the girl. If, perhaps, there had been a “settle- ment,” engineered by Georgie. She might telephone and find out. But no! 8he would have nothing fur- ther to do with the affair. Sadie was dangerous company. And dis- eretion with Ashtoreth, was a sav- Ing grace. bit quixotic — Monty Enclish had gone to New York. And life had grown dull and meaningless. Ashtoreth enrolled for a course at Roston University. A course in psychalogy. It was, the considered, a rather impressive sub- ject, Less practical” than shorthand. TRut ever so much smarter. She paid 85 In advance and bought a new fountain pen. Then her interest waned and she decided that street cars made her really fll. Tf only Monty had been around with his little coupe! Ashtoreth wondered hew she had ever felt su- perior to that car. There was, to be syre, an advertisement in large blue letters on the door, exhorting the pyblic to buy radios at Whit- man' But Monty had covered it rather neéatly with a piece of leath- er that snapped on and off. And it was a nice, cozy little ca: n. tinitely preferable to stuffy old sub- wa; It had, really, been lots of fun last winter. Especially in retro- spection. Monty used to take her 10 & restaurant on Huntingten ave nue, where the waitresses dressed like French peasants. Monty used to go there after cl: 3 And Ashtoreth felt like & student in the Lafin Quarter, SR missed Monty dreadfully. And he had not even written! | Nothing but & wire occasionally, with & mailing address and o breesy message. Every Saturday he sent Maizie a box of glace fruits, but Maizie, as she said. was no band at writing. Sundays, when she sat reading the latest thriller end munching her favorite sweet, She would declare she was entire- 1y ashamed of herself. 8he speculated constantly upon his transfer and opined that her daughter’s coolness had had some- thing te do with it. Maizie was an old-fashioned mother, as she frequently remark- ed. And not at all in sympathy with | the modern trend of things. “What's the world coming to?" #he would ask piaintively. “Com- panionate marriage and all! 8akes alive — married people don’t live together any more. And the other kind—they're the ones that ought to be married. not the others. 1 tell you, Ashtoreth. when a girl sets & chance to get a nice clean young man these days she ought to take him quick. Because there's plenty will if she won't.” And then down her book and laugh. “Mether, dear,” she warned her, “it you talk any more about ‘nice clean young men' I'll simply have to give you a little lecture. You're 80 innocent, darling. Go back to crime, dear, and let me read Dero- thy Parker.” “Dorothy Parker!” sle, this morning. Ashtoreth. Don't tell me that's the way girls talk these days. the horrors . . that the river. Godless, of talk.” Ashtoreth flipped a dozen pages. “This one. dear?” she asked. *“I think it's cute.” 8he read the jingle aloud: one abhout T call that sort “Labor and hoard, Worry and wed, And the biggest reward s te die in bed. A long tim> to » A little while to shi e Sl = 5 = & & A —\ S\ S Ashtoreth would put | sniffed Mai- | “T looked at that hook of hers | My word, it gave me | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928 D ) — — 2 E5 N & SN ORSE 3 e Monty had taken her (0 a restaurant on Huntington Aveaue, whe peasants, It's all you'll zet— Where's the nearest river?" Maizie heated a hot water hag for her daughter. Ashtoreth had | grown unaccountably chilled over I'their tea, and her mother was wor- rigd. When she crept, shivering, between her pale pink sheets, Mai- zie covered her with every puff and Banket in the house. and then threw a coat over her feet. By midnight Ashtoreth running a temperature and shivering con- vulsively. “Here's another, Mother: | “First you are hot, ] Then you are cold, And the best you have got 1s the fact you are old.” Ashtoreth shivered “1t'd the truth.” she said “But Maizie was fustling ahout. setting the table with her littls green-fringed napking and the hest plates. ached “What you need. young ludy.” |ery. she sald, “is a good hot cup of tea| and some of mother's nice ging: bread. You work too hard. A toreth, and you don't go around enough with young folks. You're his watch in the other. And tip- getting real depressed. I've heen | toed presently. quite silently, out of noticing it for the last month.|the room. White as a sheet. and peakcd-look- | ing. Where's those iron pills you used to take? Maybe it's a fonic you needs That—and some good | wholesome ‘fun | When she pleasant lan, hody:. Iy quict a possessed her she moved with dull mis- and throl At seven o'clock the doctor. A rotund little 1 antly antiseptic, who toreth's wrist in one hand and Maizi e that day. Maizie put handker- Ashtoreth Finally she chuir from at heside Ash- came again lafer And wihea he had gone litle picecs of ice in a chicf and gave them to {to hold in her month big win the living room and | toreth's bed. Ashtoreth closed her liftle book “It's my new make-up, she said. “It's interesting to pale these days. My powder new tint, that's all. Sort of a like Russians in the movies.” Maizie clicked her tongue tiently. - “Tsch! Tsch! Sit down young lady. and stop your non-|on one clhow sense,” she ordered. “And remind| “Mother!” cried. me tomorrow to write Monty, hon- | hair's dark at the roots!" ey. I don’t know what he’ll think of*me!” They went to hed shortly Time lost a1l significance and importance. The doctor kept com- ing. And Mazie tip-toed in and lout. Crached And orange uf And hot gruel impa- 38 here, | Ashtoreth raised herself weakly “Your hai framed an invisible that bed, poked and ! through the sideburn ‘“ghlsil(fi { gfii‘fz»‘g; ., 9 Genmien® THE HOUSE OF | s LEY) No Gift is Small that Bears the Name Of ASHLEY SHIRTS TIES HOSIERY SCARFS GLOVES HATS SHOES PAJAMAS ROBES SLIPPERS "KERCHIEFS ONE THIRTY-NINE MAIN STREET | “let mother called | held | Maizie, sitting on the side of the | irpin | > the waitresses dressed like French Ler left car, “I haven't murmured, h touched sinee it up,” you've she been Ashtoreth fell back on her :il- low “How long.” “have T been il ied feebly, Maizie slipped under her daughter's der plump arm ht shout here, dearie” she murmur “Ip you. Just val- low, L IUll do you 200" “Nother Maizic apron, “Land sakes e old softy. miv, wiped her she said, “but T’y Two weeks Mond -, Two weeks! retfulness for WO W nd dull aching pain. darling Mother with her e all streakoed hera r Mai: Ther cross the b were bitten. fingers were Llatkness o for- And miscry And poor, Lamb was sick ‘s hand lay on the pillow. knotted blue veins k. Her finger nails And the tips of her ed and blunted look- pretty hands! Ashtoreth ed her FORTHE HOME B Walnut Chests TALNUT veneered solid ar lined large roomy gize gracefully de- An excellent giit hint Davenport Tables splendidly made ta- ble for living room use. Nicely veneered in walnut . X popular style. ATUTHTETHSHBTI AT Then Muizic was on her knces‘ beside the bed. Crying on her out-| stretched arms. | “Oh, Baby - 0 worried, Baby Lamb, Mother Her little girl was in the hall purred there's the doctor now. We had the bell muffled.” Maizie rubbed her eyes childish- ly with her fists, o Won't ne think 1I'm the old cry baby!" She went to the top of the stairs. “Come right up. doctor. Our lit- tle girl's all bettor!” “Well, well — so our patient's out of the woods. is sh He took her wrist again slid a thermometer between lips. Studied it approvingly shook it with alacrity. “Fine! And now, Mrs. Ashe"— he turned briskly to Maizie—"you'd better be careful or we'll be baving you.on our hands.” e Maizie shook her head. were flooded with tears. And she could not trust her voice. She turned her back and blew her nose violently. Then she left the dom. {To veturn in a moment, smiling hazily. “That little surprise saving, doctor.” she said. There was an enormous box in her arms, (TO BE (¢ And her and Her eves we've been paper FINUED) surpeising gift | that ring— A marvelous and | for Ashtoret A nightgown passes through a wedding in the next chapter. SANTA CLAUS FOUND DYING AMONG TOYS of Christmas Checr To Isolated Town | Ariz, Dec. 17 (—The | who annually visited Wagoner, an isolated range town thirty miles from here, will not bring gifts to the children this year. He was killed when his gift-laden automobile plunged into a mountain ravine during a blinding snowstorm yesterday. The gift bearcr died among his wrecked tc s, but with his las! breath he murmured to the rescuc Prescott, | Santa Claus . for God's sake that those kiddies are happy.” Tom Goodwin, wealthy bachelor |cattloman, loaded his automobile | with Christmas toys and candy Sat- | urday and with Miss Pearl Johnson. a Wagoner school teacher and Reg Thomas, a cowboy friend, who had | |aided in purchasing the Christmas |gifts, started for Wagoner. | Disaster overtook the party a few [miles from here in a terrific snow- {storm. Thomas and Miss Johnson | |were found, dazed and suffering | from cxposure, by a searching par- ty. In a ravine 100 feet below the | |road Goodwin lay dying beside his | wrecked car, with bright colored toys strewn on the snow. see There is some evidence for sup-‘f posing that the dog is far superior | to the cat in intelligence, and not | | far below the raccoon and the mon- | irecord cars, c Wealthy Arizonian Killed on Mission | |conviction, and dating to 1920; 7,000 {complaint cards; and 27.000 records {line filling station proprietors since | STATE MOTOR DEP. 15 BIG BUSINESS 275 Employes Engaged Daily in' Vehicle Organization Approximately 8,500,000 separate | » documents and let- | ters arc now on file with the state motor vehicle department, as re-| quired by law or common business practice, to efficiently handle the state’s work which has developed because of the increased use of automobiles. Upwards of 7.000,090 of these records are renewed. changed or added to every year, ac- cording to department estimates. There are now employes of | the department engaged in serving the public, directly, or compiling the information required in the opera- tion of the motor vehicle laws. Quarters for this staff and the housing of the records now requires fully 500 times as much space as was used in 1917, when the depart- ment was a part of the state secre- tary’s department. Much of four floors of the capl- tol, besides storage and desk space in the basement and branch offices in five cities, is now occupied. The department has been obliged to overflow into the halls on the third and fourth floors of the west side of the capitol. This overflow will be greater soon when the members of the legislature require rooms now used by department clerks. Among the records renewed each vear are the copies of registration and operators' certificates. Approxi- mately 325,000 registration cards are copied and filed in four separate as required by statute. 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