New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 27

THIS HAS HAPPENED Mildred Lawrence, from o ftolen her in a crowd NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEaaiae b GROVES | refuses to stay stenographer | Stephen calls. at the Judson hotel, has her fox fur | that Harold is | As the weeks pass Mildred real- | casualness to but | izes that Pamela is winning Stephen Stephen Armitage catches the thief | and hopelessly | scious of having one evening when | Yonkers this morning,’ he went on, |attempting to lend air of the occasion. As g ‘mmler of fact he was keenly con- felt impelled to an and returns the scarf. He asks to | tangled with Huck's gamblers. When | rush to Mildred as soon as he heard take her home. Not wishing to seem ungrateful, she invites him to din- ner. Their cvening is spoiled duty. Stephen escorts when Pamela Judson, daughter of her em- ployer, phones Mildred to return to her to the | she asks im to confide in her he re- there was trouble at her home. He fuses but persuades her to dine with | didn’t bother to anulyze the feeling. | him. They drive by her home so she | taking it for granted that it was can change her dress and they learn |merely a friendly interest in people that her mother has had a serious |who had welcomed |accident. Harold gets a doctor and him into their hospitality. |assists in every way until she is out| But he did realize that his inter- do anything.”" “Thank you,” Mildred said stiff- ly. “There isn't anything; Mother will be pleased to <now you came i Stephen suddenly looked at her with a worried expression, *Iook | here,” he said { hard on you, Mildred; you . . “I suppose T look a wreck,” Mil- | dred interrupted. “Mother had a | restless night and it's a job getting | Connie off to school. But T'll be or- | ganized tonight and then staying home will be a vacation “Going to be away from the hotel long?"” “I don’t know." “Well, when you can leave your mother let’s have a picnic up in the country somewhere. It's great to be out these days.'” Stephen spoke en- thusiastically. The idea of suggest- ing something pleasant eased the slight sense of guilt he felt in re- | gard to Mildrea. She was a great girl. He had rush- ed her a bit and then, darned if he | knew how, something always | pened to keep him from seeing her. | Mildred smiled. “If 1 can get * ghe said vaguely, but to her- | se1f she was saying fiercely that Ste- | phen didn’t mean a word of it. Tt | was just another phrase like “see | you soon,” or “how about letting me | come up some night?” | But whatever it was it made Ste- phen feel better, and he left in gay- | er spirits than when he had arrived | After an, it not a day of gloom | Pamela surely was going to buy | car if he k anything about sales- | manship. But the little devil de- {manded concentrated selling effort | Had to be shown “I'll show her,” he said to him- self that afternoon when he stopped !the new demonstration car in front of the Judson and went in to pick | away DAY, APRIL 12, 1929. hap- | jised to ask the right people in the younger set.” | someons vlse do it.” | “So you're defending her too, are ‘3‘0\1' “Well but who's the other “Harold. I think it's perfectly dis- | gusting in a girl of Miss Lawrence's | position to play up to a boy like | Harola . . . | “Non: | sharply than | “It may be but it's rotten to there until all hours |and 2 Stephen spoke more realized. only nonsense to vou. me. Harold was last night Pam. Mildred to Harold last ou're wasn't pla night, if ever | mother, on her if you had the faintest idea ainst o ving up to you. f00? o sympathy racket? We when did vou see her? Let me s it was o'clock when hrought me home last night that 2" Stephen turned and glared at her. “Don’t you know vyour insin are {00 cheap to get over?” he eringly Sudenly Pamela slid over closer to him and cuddled up to his siae “Is my boy mad?’ she lisped mockingiy. Stephen shook him. “T don't care what you think of me.* he said aneril “hut you oughtn't to insult Miss Lawrence, 1f wrong, ng up three After her awayv anyone would receive 2 three o'clock it would be vou “1t would he if T wanted it Pamela replied unhestitatingly. “Who ever started the idea anyway that our morals change with the hours? For m oy as hard at three a. m. as I conld at three p. m.” inst fou mean you promised to have She was nursing her | You wouldn't be so severe | vou | from | caller after | to do| T could slap a fresh | T | about your mother and ask if 1 can | help for really big affairs. I've prom- | dizzy.” And whether or not it was dizzi- i ness he remained in the same mental state througlout the rest of the aft- | ernoon. For Pamela would not take an interest in the car. She was con- sumed with a desire to paint Mil- dred Lawrence as a heartless for- tune hunter, and the more she fried the more Stephen found himself de- fending the absent girl When he drove Pamela back to the hotel she harely said goodiy to him. She flew in the entrance with- out so much as a backward glanee at Stephen, hat evening Stephen called again on Mildred, and without the formality of telephoning for perm sion to do k0. He took up flowers and some magazines for Mrs. Law- rence. Her gratitude was touching but Stephen had no idea that much {of the warmth of her welcome camye | from a mother's heart on behalf of a daughter whose secret she had pene- trated. Connie went to hed early an Lawrence fell into a sound sleep he- | tore 10 o'clock | Stepen and Mitdred had together without int Stephen decided, on the we { that take in seeing so n hour iptions home, he'd been making a big mis- little of Mildred [ For his returning so soon had con- {vinced Mildred that he was not | merely paying a duty call that after- noon. She hecame her natural self { . . . only a slightly subdued trace jof the had felt re- mained. | bitterness she »hen came often during week that she ren They planned a picnic for Saturds when Connie could stay with her moth the ained at hacon and chopped egg. cup cakes with chocolate icing and ¢ 1 she'd taken a loose old sports coat and made it into an ensemble to be worn with a sweater. All in all, with the sun shining determinedly, it looked iike a day of days. She rushed » putting the flat in order. making her mother's room neat and comfortable, fixing a lunch for Connie: and then at last she was ready to put on the suit that was al- new, pull bright red beret over her brown curls and sit down o wait for Stephen who past due. Fifteen minutes later he ¢ He was N i couldn’t go to the nened that on occ to be most was already lephon- small hoy who ircus only it hap- sion a picnic. Industrizl Exposition Is Planned for Peking Shar April 12 (®—China ed her doors. The try that fighting the now i ope cour: half a century ago was intrusion of foreign traders planning to invite the manuf: ers of the world to participate in an industrial ir will be in exposition. ithe |lic home. | Mildred made sandwiches of crisp |mer’ of € — and will vent. Sours torbidden ci e ion grourn B stimnlating the “hinese manufacin d the exposition w Sino-forcign con A third object wiil pl solution for prohicms volving capital and labor, which, in the opinion of Dr. H. H. 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BENGALINE SILK ENSEMBLES in the season’s most chic versions “Well, you know Miss Lawrence jsn't you and your red-hot friends that talk like Bowery belles,” Stephen told her. “Anyway. iot at the curb she disdained to if you think it all right to be un- it conventional what's wrong with | ‘hat's the matter? he said.| Harold staving up there as late as shouldn't | thinking he might as well loose the he pleases?” | | storm and have it over with. Hel “One up for vou' Pamela ad- | bring him back if he really liked | might be involved or he might not, mitted. “but it does make a differ-| TORY) |the family, and the realization | but he knew he couldn't talk cars ence, don’t vou think. that Mildred | ghe wants to buy another car. Then CHAPTER XVI created an awkwardn n his man- | to her while she had a tempest Lawrence knows Harold is in love she meets Huck Connor, who b When shie went to open the door ner that was misleading to Mildred. | brewing, with her and that he's just a };m comes infatuated with her, and &he Mildred tried to tell herself that it She assumed that he was acting un- | “Some people have no sense of re- whose father i v in Europe®” | amuses herselt by playing with both | co 't e Stephen who had rung d sponsibility whatsoever Pame “Again the dirt,” Stephen snorted. | aen the hell He hadn't been to her house “it was nice | hegan inde ly. Tut she soon g n't you helieve that Mildred is no When Stephen favors Mildred the | for But it was Stephen and mother 1o personalities. *“Miss Lawrence | cradle-snatching adventuress? 17 o Mildred had difficulty in hiding her knows perfectly well ¢ T'm de. | Harold is so crazy about her and she seeing him. ing upon her to handle the wanted him do you think she'd be about your mother's a and bachelor lists for working now?” s 18 S dgve s Wi he said. “Harold told me Whyte's Persian fete. 1 “I think she wants to marry him.” dred. He kling and Mildred Then he pause nd looked at Mil- ave taken it on at all if T Pamela retorted. “Even with a stupe permits his attentions to save him dred as ‘hough he, too, were think- hadn't expected her help, . . ." like Harold that may take tim from Huck's gambling crowd How- | ing what a long time it had been “Why can't Mrs. Sperry-Whyte “Oh, for land’s sake, shut up I S carcs since he had called on her. put ont her own Invitations?** Stephen groaned and stopped the | Iad a demonstration “Don't be absurd. Everyone nceds car. “Here, take the wheel. I'm | | up Pamela, He found her as cross as she alone knew how to be ‘n when he helped her into the gleaming new “Don’t you know your insinuations arc too chcap to get over?” he asked withering!y. hotel where Pamela recognizes him of as the salesman who had sold her a | car, She snubs Mildred and tries to ure Stephen away by pretending danger. 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