New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1929, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY BERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929. ——— ———————— e don't waste it." She went out and left the maid Pamela promptly broke another | shaking with suppressed anger, but beud on a fresh handkerchief and | Pamela forgot her before she inhaled the odor. *Dad's buying |reached the elevator. She glanced me off in advance.” she concluded | at her tiny wristwatch and saw | sagely. “Maybe he's bringing home | that she was a few minutes late a new flock of chambermaide—and | for her double appointment. not a blemish in a boatioad. The| Al the better. She should have | new marriage can't be se hot. Well. | made them wait longer; it would old dear, I love your taste in per- | have been more effective. But she fume.” didn’t want to irritate Stephen. She thought of that perfume now, | He wasn't so deeply in love with a faint touch on each of her deli- | her that he would not grumble cate earlobes, and smiled with sat- | when she was late. isfaction. Then her eyes slid down — for an inspection of her sheerly | gne stepped imperiously through covered ankles and rose-slippered | the pronze doors and saw in a feet. She half turned for a better | ylance that both Stephen and Huck | glimpse of the crystal heels. were there, staading off and glar- The maid, watching her closely. | ing at cach other in open dislike. saw a look of wrath flame over Both men moved toward her as her features just an instant before | she paused and drew her wrap Pamela whirled upon her in a blast | tighter about her. Pamela smiled of fury. | up at Stephen without seeming to “Do you see?” Pamela cried. “Yon | see Huck. But the latter had no clumay idiot! You have put my|mind .to be ignored. He stoed he- | stockings on crooked!" fore her und bowed gravely, then The frighten:d maid shrank | he offered his arm. |back from her in dismay.| gigphen also offered his, and Pa- “Straighten them,” Pamela ordered. | ey took it. Then Huck spoke in a and as the girl bent over 10 40 )ou regtrained voice. “Haven't you [her bidding Pamela longed 10 boX | made 2 mistake?* he sald. “Or have | her ears. I? You see. I understood you to say | {you would meet me here for din- | But even Pamela had found the | ner.” | servant problem a difficult one. | Pamela turned a supercilious gaze Scveral of the agencies had frankly | upon him. “Did T really?” she said {told her that they received so many | lazily. complaints against her they feired You did.” Hnck answered quiet- she was getting a reputation among | ly, “and I ohject to being stood up." the older and better trained ser-| Stephen flashed him an angry vants of being a hard taskmis- | glance. “Be good enough to ad- |tress. Nothing but fear of losing |dress your objections to me,” he the girl restrained Pamela from |said curtly. | physically punishing her for her| Huck returned his glance with | small offense. | steady hostility. “Why should T17* | But at least she could indulge |he challcnged. “My engagement is |in tongue lashing. “Another thing." | with Miss Judson. |she said accusingly. “You n"g“ “But you can see that I'm going ;lvr'ed to press my pajamas yes- | out with Mr. Armitage.” Pamela terday. And see that they go to|said heartle y. “You did,” Huck answered quietly, “and I object to being stood up.” |the cleaner's after & second wear- | *‘Are you?" Huck said, and there THIS HAS HAPY D | Mildicd Lawrence meets Stephen Armitage when he rescues her fox fur from a thief who had snatched it in a crowd. Their Iricndship grows until Pamela Judson, daugh- tor of Mildred's employer, tries to lure him away from her, Then Hue Connor hecomes infatuated with 1 nela and she amuses herself by playing with hoth men. Pamela’s brother, Harold, is in love with Mildred but sus s that &hs cares more for thin for him. Ke hegs her to ith him and she consents, hoping to keep Bim away from Huck’s gamblir crowd. Mildred's mother hus a se1 ous cident. Stephen hears about it and comes to call, feeling regret over his long absence. He makes an engazement with Mildred but b tess prevents him from keeping t date. Pamela tells Stephen that Mil- dred is trying to marry her brother for his money. Stephen det 18 her and Pamela is furious. She cab her father and has Mildred dis- charged arold sends another message to | his father, asking him fo reinstate the gi t 1o no avail. He offera to help, but Mildred asks him why he s Huck., He refuses to tell her but says he appreciates her sy la succerds in poisoning Ste- | phen’s mind against Mildred and the latter faces dreary days of searchi for work. B3ut Huck is k0 persistent that Pamela thinks out a plan to dispose of bim. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XX Pamela ol promised to have dinner with Huck. And then she made a date with Stephen for the same night | Wait for me in the lobby near | the muin clevators,” she had told Huck. “Seven-thirty, sharp.” | While 1o Stephen she had also | said that sie would mect him in | the lobby near the main clevators at seven-thirty on the minute AL seven twenty-seven she gath- | ercd the cointr 1 velvet wrap h maid held for her about her shot ders, took up her small. silver van- ity bag, and turned for a last ine spection of herself ‘ Inll—} cngth set of adjustable mirrors that eccupicd one cntire side of her | *dressing-room before starting for | the meeting with the two you men, cach of 1 helieved himsell to he the fav ef the hour, | She had wondered about that off- white shade of her wrap when she | Lought it, thinking that pure white | or a color would have heen mor dazzling, but now she was pleased with it, and the partic y aliur- ing swirl the coiffenc had worked into her smooth hair. she put up a hand to touch it Fo Build Up Young Wives “I was in a rundown con- dition after a miscarriage and it left me awfully weak. 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Pamela | resisting her tonight, she thought.|from her a moment before. They |had just about gone too far with Even her perfume was more beguil- [ 14y near at hand. showing up plain- | her. ing than usual; something her|ly against the black velvet carpet | “You can, or you can leave,” father had sent her from Puris with | that Pamel had demanded when | Paiela said uncompromisingly. | ;rised and wordiess, “properly in in admonition to use it sparingly as|last her rooms were redecorated. that all my things were to be|jig place His quictness discon- it was priceless. She paid scant attention to them |Pressed after each wearing. And | copted her. As first Pamela had thought the | as she leaned over for a better view [ YOU Were told in the beginning |~ ..yoy can see that she is going ift nothing more thun a string of \of the floor, thinking someone | 100t permit the chambermaid 0} 511, e Rtephen answered for imitation pearls which she tossed | pight have dropped a perfumed | (Urn back my bed: she doesn’t| ;.. «uithough I'm ready to with- angrily aside with a mental note to (know how to arrange the pillows.” |4, without making a scene if tell hoer msgnided parent precisely “Very well. miss,” the maid mur- > wishas 16 change her mind,” he what an outraged davghter thought mured quictly, - but her fingers | g g4.4 potntedly. R Ita e e A b trembled as she adjusted Pamela's garters. “Shall 1 wait up for you?" ‘Certainly. You don't expect me to call in somc:one else, do you?" But even before her anger had She reached down and picked! puymela was critically viewing subsided she had made an interest- | them up At once she guessed their (he seams of her stockings to see | Mg discovery. A Whilf of odor so sccrct. They were tiny. drop by |that they ran straight up her well- | S E———————— delicate that it seemed it couldw’t drop, perfume containers that | jormed legs; the slenderly tapering | have come trom any earthly tlower looked like y 1, legs that are the American girl's' . e b A b e T TN CAPITOL CUihionsiof e enilee 1ongus ANt |vaven e e e e o atart. any sans 1n myl STARTS SUNDAY thiought of scathing things 0 Wrle cqrd that had accompunied them. |new stockings.” Pamela warned.|| “IN OLD ARIZONA®” to her father. She found it beside the gray velvet | moving toward the door to her sit-4 AN ALL TALKIE Pamela sniffed. Then she sat up | ¢ that had held the beads. “The [ting room. “I mean those runs With EDMUND LOWE rect. 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She had expected Huck to allow her to sweep haughtily off with Stephen while he stood. sur- handkerchief there. Then she no- ticed that she was, as the childhood saying goes, ® warmer. But there was nothing in sight except the beads. She ¢ them a closer == 0ok and saw that one was crushed Fled note, 10 he more precise hidden from Stephen while his head | was lowered, there gleamed a dag- ger of hate that only a great effort T t 4 . E 20 ik grea " "R g GRAARAM-PAIGE 7] | Huck bowed, accepting the re. | buie, but in his eyes as they were | I | of wi the T e — S— ill wiped out bLefore he looked | |she was picked up by two men and “Perhaps Miss Judson will do me Later the actress said she nad for our little dinner.” he said suave- Iy, t Pam ness maki see Mr. honor of sctting another date ! |fallen out of the stranger's autg= [ mobile after she had grown faint hough somewhat stiffly, and from the smell of several paint cans ela felt a sensation of creepi- | lin the rear seats and had attempted come over her as he spoke. | to open a window in the car. She an't do it, Hucky,” she said, Confl]cu]]g Repom “mfion?’m“""" that her clothing had been ng a rather flat attempt to torn when the driver attcmpted to s e "ot T o Boldnes of Unidentd Host =i, o Police detectives and motion pic- Armitage isn't just for the| officials later reported night. 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