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SERIAL STORY-
One I Love
CHAPTER I (Continued)
For Janet and Rolf there couldn't be a blue and white kitchen, a vine- clad bungalow or even a tiny, cheap, third floor apartment. They couldn't bo married because the combined total of their savings accounts was $214 short of $500.
Five hundred dollars that toint must be before Janet and Rolf could go to the court house and then to tho church and solemnly exchange promises to love and cherish one au- other until death. It might not seem a large sun to a great many people. To Janet and Rolf it was huge in- deed. It was also the absolute mini- mum on which a matrimonial venture might safely be launched.
Janut knew this because she had read it in a magazine. It was Janet who had insisted the $500 must be in the bank before their
marriage. There had been arguments. Dozens of them. Rolf had wanted to himt the very next day after ups, sane bus ride on un that April night when, with a dozen other passengers about them, he had some- how got out the all-important ques- tion to a girl where whisper was inaudible hut whose star-lit eyen said "Yes."
п
She had loved him for those arge- menta but of Course she Couldn't Why, Rolf was earning $35 ligree.
Advertising week at the Atlas Agency and her own salary was $30. Rolf had a life insurance policy and posted blithely of the $10.75 in his waltet -$3 of which he awed his room- mate. With paper and pencils and a great many highly irrelevant inter- ruptions they argued and molded and subtracted-and arrived at Janet's origin statement. There must be $600 in the back!
knew quite a lot about
ROLF CARLYLE
LAURA. LOU BROOKMAN
It wasn't, she pointed out, what the $500
would buy: i
it was what it lood for. Janet poverty She W Daisy McCullough who hat worked in the Every Home office until, gayly and irresponsibly, she had married and been divorced probably remnis et hi deck through the Gazette and the Tings, were NEX mths
Int. She knew Mrs. out the afternoon.
boys at the Brewster. Frisbie whose husbend was an invalid "Finished?" [ hoked up wi leet at the Brewster Coffee and whore littl__girl_couk[n't see sailed as aid the fters on his Shop," Mr. Hewitten would She had known Jae Platz, too, well desk,
inn telegd one conversation. enough to grow a little faint when
it would always be at least two hours she read how they sound his body in
efore
Feltriad front such the river. Joe Juring had been buried the week before. Joe Pintz had lost nis fol anil couldn't fees being burden to his wife
could
tharried. Five
"All but the aware andura,"
"Haven't had conck, navy you !!,
danet muid that he did hoc. Her luncheon, employer rested his
the
наз
The Coffee Shop had a street, en-
Lumikun e inema until today," trance on the side of the building
T wait. B
time too much kingly)
was approaching. The Ame eer Brewster Coffee Shop" was lettereil
neatly on a small gliss sign that
Yes, Janet hay chugh of poverty win her from so that all of Reif ; plending couldn't "I don't mind danet trgan, bagi night was illuminated. Janet, busy
her insistence that
the half-heartrat after was silenced. ith her though, was not a dozen they must work and save before they Hamilton, was in one of those rure! yard, from that sign when suddenly
hundred moods when her lived that there he looked up. Her heart seemed delines was the lowest possible figure. who worked with him were human top henting. Sie caught her breath. At first they had assured "each | beings instead of machines. At such A girl in n dark fur cant was enter. other the $500 could be saved easily times he was kindness and considering the coffee shop,, She was slender, lu six months at the most! Itoif ation itself.
rather small, and she wore a red hot.) 8. "CONTE VERDE" 30th Nov. 18,8, "CONTE VERDE" ..8th Der but made a budget of his $33 | "Take a walk-get out in the park and charming. She had turned and "It' fue afternoon," he snud. Very pretty the girl koked, very gay showed Janet how to make one. Somehow at the end of the month treat yourself to a real holiday! was smiling up at her escort.
She smiled and agreed, though of youn man bexige her was course she had no iden of doing any: Carlyle, such a thing. The bisthing party fori
To Be Continued). Rolf would give her more pleasure than any outing could,
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the budget was there but the nuncy wasn't. "They und had wonderful times together but theatre tickets and dinners and gardenia: for Janet's coat collar had more thin taken the sum Rolf had set down under the heading, "Savings.
The
Half
Janet put payer and pencils away. eferred her desk and drew the all- CONSIGNEES - NOTICE: cloth cover over her typewriter. A moment later, wearing the year-old THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD, felt hat, her coat over her armi, Janet passed in the dew way.
"Goodbye until Monday," he said, miling.
"Goodbye."
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO',
ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
Two minutes
Iler she emerged through the strest door into the early
The Steamship, afte afternoon traffic A fine afternoon it wa, na Mr. Hamilton bad said. Late
"BENAVON" Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- being
So there were more sessions with pencil and paper, more adding and subtracting. Out of all this had come further arguments and then, gradual ly, the savings accounts had begun to swell. Instead of theatre parties and fresh flowers and dancing at the Crystal Slipper there were long walks now and enfeteria meals and visits to the neighbourhood movie
house where tickets cost only 15 cents.
Rolf chafed at all this-but always February sunshine shone down wart formed that all Goods arc came around to agree the object was y Across the street where there had landed at their risk into the hazardous worth it. He wasn't nearly as versed been a patch of sow the earth was and/or extra imzardous Godowns of in economy as Jeret
Some of the moist now and dark. The wind, cool The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf other girls in the Every Home office and refreshing, struck Janet's checks & Godown Co. Ltd., whence and/or thought Janet had been growing just into the creamy whiteness. The girl obtained.
and brought a delicate surge of colour: from the wharves delivery may be a little shabby. They nodded signi ficantly and agreed that a girl had to keep up her looks; even if she was pretty she was a fool to neglect her self and anybody could tell that old black hat was last winter's. Fresh see the tower if the Security Build to rent.
A block in the distance she could the 23rd August, 1035, will be subject collar and cuff sets didin't conceal the in, the hands on its clock pointing | fact that Janet wore the same black to 40 minutes after one. drock almost every day,
tu
drew a deep breath, awung into the. procession healing cost.
br
No claims will be admitted after the Gnarls have left the Godowns, and all Good remaining undelivered after
steamer
the All claims against must be presented to the Undersign-
by
Er Janet till had heard these com tet her leave without finishing the 1835, or they will not be recognized.
It had been nice of Mr. Hamilton to ed on or before the 6th September, ments she would have laughed. How memorandum. It gave
her 20 minutes could anyone compare old hats and more than she had expected to have. Warehouse Regulations consignees To comply with the General Bunded worn frocks with the glory of know- ng that Holf loved her?
Suddenly the thought of lunching must have a Revenue Ofker in atten- The special reason she had wanted tasteful. Janet knew the menu there are examined,
at the corner drug store became dis-dance when damaged dutiable goods leave the office at 12.30 Saturday
All broken, chafed, and damaged wan beer.use it was Rolf's "apecials"
that on Saturdays; pea soup, the handwich birthday. He didn't know she
sund, pimento Goods are to be left to the Godowns, aware of this but what a celebration kinds of pie. Yes, inloed.
was cheese, and egg-and-lettuce and two where they will be examined on the the hind
She could 2nd August, 1945, at 10 planned Dinner, cooked on recite every itere on that wenu. And Messrs, Goddard and Dougins. the two-burner gas stove by Janet the coffee was never served with real! herself. There would be u
No Fire Insurance has been effected. thick
Bill of Lading will be counter. steak,
mushrooms, erekmed a creans.
BAPATUKUR and salad with Roquefort dressing, decided hastily. "It's after the noon.
“I've time to go to Rooney's," she signed by, The dessert had been made early that rush and there'll be quick service. morning and was waiting in the iceBesides it's on the way to Ilayslips." chest. There would be flowers for the table and tail white candles, Janet oldest in Lanensier and carried thei
Hayslips Jewellery store was would have to buy them at the dime finest stock. It store on her way in me.
was at Hayslips" |
"thee
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Agcoin. Hongkong, 16th August, 1935.
Janel had determined to buy the IN LONDON
She had to sleep, too, for
and pencil set for Rolf. It wasn' fountain pen and pencil set thuit was was
the really an extravagance or maybe it
But surely tu be her birthday gift to Holf. Rolf's present had to be the best.
it was justifierl! Janet hed decided that was what the At Rooney's the food was appetizing glit should be three weeks ago when and inexpensive. The luxury of a he had complained about losing his quiet table and a few minutes' reat fast pen. There was the shopping to was too great a temptation to resist. de at the grocery store, too, the tidy So, instead of entering the drug store, ing up of the single room that, with Janet Hill turned, at the corner, the couch cover properly disguising
that turn that changed
It was
the day bed, became a suitable place everything.
to receive callers. There were really
Two blocks beyond--with
the
u dozen demands on Janet's time that cafeteria only half a block further afternoon and there she was typing was the Bruce Hamilton's revised copy and caster the Brewster had all the
Browaler Hotel. In Enn hin correspondence!
prestige of a Ritz-Carlton or a May- Howard Cressy had disappeared. flower. Janet had never crossed the Janet, Intent on her work, was aware threshold but frequently she had made when her employer arose and loft the reservations there for Mr. Hamilton. office and that half an hour later he His wealthiest business associates returned. That meant he had lunch stopped there when they ed. Hamilton drove all those who Lancaster. Janet know
came to that worked for him but he drove himself amartost luncheons and dinner partion. the
even
more streuucusly. He would the ones describot in the columns of
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