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CHAPTER 1:

The bag was empty! But Jerry couldn't believe it.

Again and again she thrust her hand in the felt folds, poking and digging in a space that could not tout have concealed a pinhead.

Her roommate, powdering her nose before the golden oak dresser, heard her gasp and wheeled in alarm.

love even if he had a million," she said,

1.

She begged with good effect. | hadn't worked very wall and Myrtle Myrtle agreed to stay. George pro-rald they would have George fix it. mised to deliver the tent and equlp

so much."

"You'd get to depend on your boy Irlend, 620, If you had one." Myrtle

lorted instantly. "Well, I'd like to know what that guy up there is depending upon," .more Jerry answered, her voice serious than her words. "Look at him; he's pointing right at us! Run"

like this his place is always, crowd- ed. I hope we aren't too Inte."

But they were. The camp sites were all taken.

ment. Mr. Burnes told them just Jerry looked up at the sound of "Now what'll we do?" Myrtle where to put it so it wouldn't be a motor in the air. A silver plane wailed when Mr. Barnes gave her conspicious, but when. George re- was winging overhead in what look-. the bad news. He didn't know, turned with it, much Inter-in the】ed to her like the attempt of a but she asked him so many timès, day, the three pitched it where huge butterfly to find a flower to in such genuine distress, that hej they willed, which was on the edge land on. "Too bad George doesn't was driven to think it out for her of the maple grove where the morn-fly." she said lazily; "you need him

"I'll tell you what I can do for ing sun would wake them. you." he said at last, speaking a bit reluctantly. "I've got a house Jerry had flared back at her. down near the shore that's empty, Jerry had scarcely got the camp It's George because propinquity been empty for years. Being's in order when she heard George's ear didn't make it somebody else. know you I can let you canplattling in at the tumbledown gate, "A Vanderbilt or an Astor, there. You'll have to boil the For a Becting moment she envied huh?" Myrile broke in. "Don't be water and you'll have

to keep Myrtle-it must be fun to have

laughs out of you already, go funny, Jerry. I got enough quiet. I don't want any trouble friend with a cur, even a junky,

You with Mr. Carstairs."

old rattletrap. No, why not a real don't owe me any

car? Men were all alike, only some more. Every "Who's he. Mr. Barnes?" time I think of you and your "Carstairs? Humph, He owns They should be chosen for what they were worse than others, not better, nadow strolling down the Board- the place next doors and don't

hnd-there was a difference in the walk trying to pick up a billionaire you go trespassing or get a gangway they fooled girls about love. I choke."

hanging around, because Car stairs and me are going to do She couldn't see any reason for business about that shore proper- Myrtle's beaming after George and ty some day. I'm doing this as kissed her goodbye. What was

Jerry lost her balance and fell. a favour to you, young lady, and kina? No boy had ever kissed her She got a nasty crack on the side don't you forget it. The Car-though several had tried.

of her head and what followed im-

for campers.".

to her. The first thing she became a money and show me how this conscious of was the sensation of is that su? Well, how much will Myrtle was such a confirmed nut resting place, Her head was held. Myrtle turned up her nose stove works," she said Irritably being cradled in a very satisfactory pernted because she knew what the you think I've been saving my it delay our first hundred to hang about love. It made her sick.just right in a place it fitted per- Toss of the money would mean to money for 1 tell you, I'm fup aur hats in that sacred spot?"; "Wait, a few years," she thought.jfectly.

The water's_free."

Twenty-five, the same as here."and if I ask her whint she thinks But that sense of security and

of marriage sho'll tell me it's alti

Base was youn lost. A pain shot right but a girl oughtn't to rush like Dre across her brain and she into it."

furled out. Her eyes flushed open Let the stove alone," Myrtle) 47 the agony cleared her mind and car," said good-naturedly; "and let's go she saw, with a sensation she was for swim. Too bad George ever to forget, an unfamiliar mas- couldn't stay, but he says the line face bent over her own. traffic's terrible and he wants to) get home early.”

"What's the matter?"! "My money is gone!" "No!" Myrtle stared at the open bag in Jerry's nerveless fingers as though it were polaonous. "Maybe It fell out. Let's look in the closet." The search was a frantic one.

"You've got the wrong idea," Jerry had answered serenely. "I'm not going to Atlantic City to parade the Boardwalk."

"You don't expect tu meet a

élag hotel do you?"

Sho jumped to her feet and Myrtle to get out of the way. She sprang. backward, still yelling at

heard a shrill screech in answer, or, rather one note of It, for the rest was drowned out by the uproar the plane made on ita dive into their camp.

Every inch of the dark cubicle Social Register guy in a second-stairs neighbouḥord je no place "Stop looking down the road like "ediately after the erash was lost

was covered,

"I warned you not to leave it here," Myrtle sald when at last they gave up. She was exaB-

hotel. Listen, Myrtle. What do "I'm not going to a second-class

going to have a week, in the best

Jerry Ray. When a girl refused hotel in Atlantic City. The right.

to treat herself to a soda for weeks clothes, the right plače, and I know and weeks..

"Why didn't, and the right man." you give it to Mrs. Addison ?"

She knew the nuswer to that too, If their landlady knew that cone of them could save money they eertainly would get that threaten ed raise in their room rent.

"I thought it would be alt right for one night," Jerry solded.

Now, thinking over alt the sneri- fives she had made, the money she had wanted to send her mother and hadn't because it was to free them both from the ugly confines of poverty, Jerry felt weak and, de fented,

The theft was fast becoming a

Me nam waetfur hat, filled reality to her. For nearly a year with the heat of the city's masonry she had saved that money dollar by duling, It had been almost that even the night could not en- impossible to believe, when she firely release. Jerry had let her opened the bag and found it gone.md train itself to picture the that it had been stolen, that it things she wanted for her mother and herself. Smooth beaches, roof really was gone,

gardens, the deck of a white and mahogany yacht-she had read of them, seco photographs of them, seen fleeting glimpses of them in the news reels,

It seemed, sort of funny that only a few minutes ago She had run at the stairs ahead of Myrtle, who wasn't going to Atlantic City, tripping over the hole in the earpet before their door, as usual, but. with an unusual song in her heart. As quick as that everything could change. The song was & dirge

now

If such places and things existed why should she not aspire to them? Certainly the people who had them had not been content to want less, she reasoned,

Her room, by contrast with the Myrtle tried in vain to comfort things she had dreamed of, seemed Then she doubly hot. And how she hated it her until George came, had to go: George couldn't be the jaundiced wall paper and thread-bare rug, the curtains that kop waiting.

hung, with a listlessness like hor mother's movements.

Jerry lay on the bell, white and ponse, her disappointment eating

She was still lying on the bed, deeper indo ber eonsciousDESS LAS her thoughts travelled backward.ully dressed, when Myrtle return- Another year at the lace countered. Myrtle hefore she could have a vucation something. Jerry supposed, with

out giving it much thought, that again.

George had been making love to her.

was excited over

Myrtle had argued heatedly over that she called Jerry's crazy idea, Buf Myrtle didn't know. Myrtle "How about a little lev errum?” didn't want things the way, Jerry Myrtle' asked Intending to treat. wanted them. Myrtle rane was Jerry didn't want ice cream. content to look forward to a future

"Well, say, listen, Jerry, I've with George in a three-room fati] been thinking-you'll go camping 31.rtle boltved in love. Jerry with me now, won't you?"

Jerry didn't answer.

didn't

ench of it." ghol "Gee, you'll like it," Mrytle went said when Myrtle wanted to knowe 93). " was out there last sum- how she of that way." "knower, you know. I've got the lent what it did to my mother, It's and everything. Bella sald me| just a snare."

Once her mother had confided her half of it when she got mar to Jerry that she was the only red. We used to camp together. beautiful thing in, her life and in George stored it in a garage ar 1 Jerry's heurt had been born then me this winter, but I didn't expect. to use it. No fun camping alone. and there a fervé resolve to gom-i jel henuig for her mother, to bring i

What do you say, let's rum dat to Glen Cove to-morrow and spe Tome luxury into her life.

She wanted, with a longing that about getting site? Of course had grown with her through the 11 should have let Mr. Barnes kno years, to rest her mother's hands, before this, but he may be able to see the callouses disappear und jan squeeze us in somewhere." the broken nails mend. She want- A flicker af interest passed ed'skillful fugers to rub out the fover Jerry's face. Myrtle did not farrows on her mother's brow, butee it but she was sufficiently en- above all she wanted to see those grossed with her plans to go on drooping shoulders lift and a light without encouragement, shine in the dull blue eyes,

"There's always a swell crowd." she nthused: "and it isn't Jar And for this she had come to from the beach. Come on, say New York. She had told them yes. You'll be glad your rolf was frankly at home that she whe Hited when you meet some of the coming to marry money. They boys that camp there. Huriestly, laughed at her, all but her mother, Jerry, you'd have had

a dumb She warned Jerry gravely against time all alone in Altlantic City," making a mistake.

Jerry did not feel like taking But New York had disappointed issue with her about that. It was Jerry. Rich men did not Com all right to argue when she had e king pridar at Fane's departa choice. But now if she refused ment store. She met a few boy, to camp with Myrtle she would friends of George, but they were have to spend her vacation Marblehead, satisfied to have just hadn't enough money left to pay town with nothing to do. She a "job"--nothing else,

That would not do for derry, her fare to her home and return,

Before they fell asleep, she had If you believed in love it was dif- ferent you must marry blindly. Fromised to go with Myrtle. The But if you were not a sentimental decision ensed her mind a little. boob you could make your marringe She could go to Atlantic City next 4 careert

Your. It was a long time to wait The best way, she concluded, but....she was asleep. since the mountain didn't come to

like the boys she had known at

in

af het, was to go to the moun- They drove out to Glen Cove in tain. A real mountain. That was George's battered little ear, built the advantage of knowing that mostly from junked automobiles, marriage was a matter of propin-Jerry remarked the number of fing quity you could choose your field. motors. that purred swiftly pant Jerry knew she appeared soulless them on the highway. "Yes, the to Myrtle, but then Myrtle was a North Shore of Long Island in fool, she thought. She wondered alive with millionaires," George why people were so blind when informed her, amut them were the wrecks of lovą marringes.

Myrtle gave Jerry à aly glance, "Net a bad hunting ground, kič," She was not ashamed of her she unid. "If you can get in." decision to marry

money. She

"How did you happen to find z warn't going to "sell" herself or camp out there?" Jerry inquir anything like that. The man musted, ignoring her suggestion: be someone she could respect and like, She saw no

"Why, this man Barnea has reason why some lund in the not-so-high-hut marriage should be approached in neighbourhood that he's holding a coy, oh-it-just-happened manner, for speculation." Myrtle explain- plained this, "Well, I'd rathered. "He rents the camp sites to

Myrtle had scoffed when she ex-

marry George then a man I didn't pay his taxes. On'a hot summer:

"What is it, salt?" "It's a brook. Be sure you ball

"How far is it from anywhere?" "Wait until I get my Mr. Barnes threw a glance at George's "and I'll take you over to look at f

"I hope we can walk brick to camp; won't be any fun off by our- selves," Myrtle grumbled while they waited,

Fifteen minutes later she' de-

claved she couldn't think of camp-bathing suit. Of ine at the old house.

"Why, we'll be buried here with out ear" she exclaimed, agbust at the idea of solitude.

}

(To Be Cortioned,)

"How romantic," Jerry mur-

Viscount Kelburn, son of the mured.

Earl of Glasgow, was fined £5 and "Oh shut up and get into your was ordered to pay fla. costs at courie there Slough for failing to stop la won't be anyone to admire you but motor-car after an accident. I the seen swells but maybe you'll was stated that Viscount Kelburn get a kick out of that."

was a endet in H.M.S. Erebus,· stationed at Devonport, and the But now it was Jerry who urged. Jerry certainly did. Out of the rase was heard in his absence. She was entranced with the place. whole thing, the bathing and the Arthur John Evered, milk rounda- A ram shackle old shingled house prospect of a night cool enough for man, of Slough, said that he was with a wide porch on one end, a comfort. She was almost happy | driving a horse and curt when Vis grove of muples and a few towering when they sat down, hungry and count Kelburn's car struck his off- A cool green tired, to Onish what was left of aide wheel and nearly turned the onks, looked like

their mid-day lunch. The stove art over. paradise to her.

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