New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 12

THIS HAS HAP! X I Ashtoreth Ashe, having recovered | from a severe illness, prepares to take a tropical cruise, S torton, | a little adventuress who insists upon being friendly, lends her clothes and showers her with advice. Sadie, masquerading under the stylish pame of “Mae de Marr,” has tinposed upon the good nature of | Hollls Hart, in whose office bota girls worked. Ashtoreth is afraid hat if Mr. Hart learns of the inti- | macy between hor and Sadie, he will tose all in t in her. But Sadie, good-1 proves a friend need. And Ashtoreth finds it impos sible to end the friendship. Meantime Mr. Hart has departe sh, who | Ashtoreth, Boston for New Yerk. Sadie and Ma toreth’s mother) help her for tha cruise. NOW GO ON WITH THE CHAPTER XII Ashtoreth bought a white crepe chine, a simple ligle thing Wi kick pleats. White shoes to g0 with it, and red tennis socks. When s tried it on that evening at home and | pinned a gipsy kerchief across her) shoulders, she looked like Helen| Wills exhibiting the correct thing for sports. | exhibiting the She chose, also, grock, virginally Marked from $65 to $5.50 the beads were coming off. It took | eight hours to sew them on. Bat it was a good day's pay, howm'(:r‘ you looked at it To wear with the little white | gown, she bought white crepe de chine pumps, planning to have| them dyed for the street in the| springtime. | A faded pink satin proved ador- | able as to line and fit. “TN dye it that new shade of cin-| namon brown,” decided Ashtorcth, #and it will be stunning with Sa-| aie's borrowed outfit” | Then there was a cool green chif-| fon, with a tull, long skirt, rather| ahorter in front than in back. “I'm not going to get anything else but sport clothes” decreed Ashtoreth. “I think they're the only practical thing for !m\-onmv,,v because a girl's always well dressed | §f she's simpiy dressed. And| sports clothes are something __\'()u‘ can wear morning, roon and night. Sunny days and rainy days, and all the time.” She found a rose voile and a French blue hat to go with it. Then a pale yellow, with which the same hat was particularly good. Then for 24 cents a yard bought flowered print. Ar $1.03 apiece, made three dresses. “Cotten prints,” she told #3re much smarter than silks, 3ut Maizie held the stuff between | her fingers and sniffed contemptu- | ously. | “We wouldn’t of put it in a patch| work quilt when I was youns,” she { scoffed. | prepare | STORY correct thing for a headed dinner | pure and sweet. | because she for pretty Maizie, Ashtoreth had decided to tuke a West Indies cruise. At first Maizie protested. : | “That's where the hurricane! started that killed all the people in Florida!” she objected. | “But the hurricanc ever,” explained Ashtoreth. Sadle, wno had dropped in with more offers of fine raiment, perused | & booklet. | “Listen, Mrs. Ashe!” she com- manded, and read aloud: *‘Wes Indies! Sea girt isles of romance. | Languorous and primitive, ~ with beauty outstretching every dream. Flowers and perfume. And moun- | tains with palms that touch the tip | ot the moon. Days of sun and nights of stars’ — my cow, Ash! That's a swell place to go all by | yourself! You'l get moonstruck and dle. Looks to me like you'd need & man on them languorous seas. You'll be going primitive un- der an island moon. Mayhe she’ll elope with a mative, Mrs. Ashe.” Maizie looked worried. “But I suppose nothing's as ro- | mantical as they write about,” she surmised. “Paper can’'t refuse ink, as my father used to say. You won't go falling in love, will you, Ashtoreth 7 She peered anxiously into Ash- foreth’s dancing eye: ‘ “Fall in love Ashtoreth laughed. “Who'd I fall in love with? No, Mums — I'l be a little erphan on this cruise, sure as you're born.” In vain Sadie had advocated season’s | the | help, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928, Tucked beneath the deep red blossoms was a little note, advamtages of a trip to South Amer- Mr. Hart, she thought, ica somewhere ' in the Argentine. f Ashtoreth now could only meet him | there! But at the sug “My dear, Ashtorath stion. A you don't think I'm going sing that man! And, am how, how could 1 find him? Th Argentine isn’t any little hole in the wall from all I've rd about it. You're ¢ Sadie seemed annoyed Monty English had sent and fruit from New York. ten to inquire for Ashtoreth. She had replicd gratefull did ? not enedurage his su visit, “Absence makes the fonder,” she reminded Maizie. lut Maizie, with one of her rare flashes of repartee, had parried quickly. “Yes—fonder of the other girl.” Then, growing serious, a plump ha on her slim should “God knows T hope vou're not making a mistake, Ashtoreth. But remember — whatever happens — that there are lots of things in this world that count more than mont 5 Ashtoreth shook impatiently “Mother,” she cried going to make any about ‘nice clean young seream!” “Well, you candy 4 writ- but sested she laid daughter's her hand away f you're peeches men,” I'll could go further and fare worse.” Maizie defended her choice staunchly. “He's a fine boy, that's what he =" Think I want widow ?” parried ty's whole life is rad think or talk abon And he t with him chuckled, to he a radio Ashtoreth. “Mon- o0s. He doesn’t anything else. s his car phones to bed proph Not with me toreth in: Maizie looked “What's this ted to kno lionaire boss Mr. Hart. 1 more to do *t!” retort- , hie won canily. her shrewdly. tells me.” she hout that mil- shining up to vou? mld thi 'd have than flirting with his it aic htoreth colored die's 2 little fool,” nounced von she stenograph s dear Why not?” demanled Maizie. “They're hired help, tha what they are. And T guess it don't make <he pro- lan't call An heart grow | y difference what you call peo-| , 50 long as they earn thetr mon- | honest.” | Ashtoreth averted her face. Well then,” she said, “as Mr.| Hart’s hired hand, I might remark that T never saw him ‘shining’ up to the help, Sadie talks too much | for her own good.” “Oh, by the w Malzle was quick to change the subject. “Her and that boy — Georgie — have | n up.” . I'm not surprised.” Ashtoreth, at the moment, little acrimonious. “Sadie will never get any me ny endurance test for fidelit “I didn’t think much of her boy anyhow,” voluntecred Maizie. I met them one day on the street, 1| gucss T told you. He's got patent | leather lialr and sort of mean eyes. Sudie’s just as well off, rid of him, | if you should ask m was a 1s Sadie was working in a ment store. On the stocking ter. Ruby Hart, who worked in cosmetics, shared her apartment row. Ard Cleo Danforth, ex of hats. The Ashes saw her only occasionally. Ashtoreth ad never told her| mother of Sadic’s brief affair with | Mr. Hart. And zie, who ac- | cepted the good things of life as a matter of course, never inquired depart- | coun- | the source of the girl's affluence, fe's been kind to her,” sald | | Maizie. “She's a good, sweet girl.” | Sadie had accounted satisfactor- ily for the fact that she was living apart from h family. moved awn 1. And an un- | cle had died, leaving her a little mwoney. M was piously im- | pressed. And Sadie, winking at| Ashtoreth, passed her arm affec- | tionately about the older woman's shoulds “You're a good egg, she pronounced. | And Maizie was innocently | pleased at youth's compliment. | “A darn good egg—take it from | ¢ the little mother a hand, | o Mrs, Ashe,” | Ashtoreth was York on a Frida sailing from New | That gave her her the week-end to clean up artment and pack their per- sonal belongings. On Monday she wonld go to work for Dr, Hender- son's neurotic patient, Mrs. Adams. Ashtoreth went to the Commo- in New Y. . becanse it was the Grand Central, and onvenient. Presently she d that it was rather a man's hotel, and wished that she lad gone, instead, somewhere a lit- | Aore <0 near 105t conclu tle diffcrent. She telephoned Mon- ty,and he came to take her to din- ner. She met him nine, and they went down to the grill together. “They've the tails fn the world nounced. And he chatted, Inconsequentlal- ly, of lobsters and filet mignon and baked Alaska, until Ashtoreth was altogether sure that he had ceased entirely to love her. here,” he an- Her boat sailed next morning, and Monty took her in a taxi to the pier. After he had left her, she found In in the mezza- | best lobster cock- | her stateroom a great basket of fruit and three dozen American Beauties. Tucked beneath their blossoms was a little note. “Dearest Ash: “If it's any uews to you, Sweet- heart, 1 love you more than ever. Not that 1 expect you to get any kick out of that. Maybe, though, some day, you'll be glad of an adoring egg to fall back on. And here your little egg will sit and wait. Forever and forever—Monty.” (TO BE CONTINUED) deep red In the next chapter Ashtoreth | salls—and on the boat meets a mys- terious woman passenger. SEMINOLE LAWS 10 BE EAFORCED | Florida Oficials Won't Interfere| in Indian Matters St. Petersburg, Fla., Dec. 20 (P)— Law of Seminole Indian medicine men apparently has again super- ceded Florida jurisprudence in the cine man accused of murdering a widowed squaw in, the heart of the everglades last Sunday. Informed by Captain L. A. Spen- cer, federal Indian agent, that the fatal stabbing of the squaw during a brawl occurred off the government | reservation, Sherift Lewis J. Thorpe | of Collier county said he would con- | fer with Circuit Judge George W. | Whitehurst regarding disposition of |the case. He added, howe that |it Josie was arrested, it would be | the first time that the state of Flori- !da interfered with Indian justice. Four Day Fast | Billle yesterday completed a four |day fast and penance preseribed I by tribal law before he could utter a word of accusation or defense. When his pennance was up and |he was permitted to change clothes, {bathe; and tell his story. | “Me no bad Indian," said Josie. |“First argue with squaw who take imy money. Try make give back. Two more come. Squaw jump in. ,Two brothers, drunk, jump on me. They cut. I take my knife cut' to. She get cut. Didn't mean. Heap sorry.” It unmolested by Florida officers, Josie will await decision of the In- dian supreme council in June. The government attempted to deal justice to an Indian slayer several days ago, but before the culprif could be apprehended, the tribes- men had hanged him in consumma- tion of a tribal decree. Death sen- tences are rare, but severe physical punishment of various natures and |reparation for the victims' sur- | vivors is common. 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