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BROIN HERE TO-DAY
ROLF engaged to JANET HILL CARLYLE but they do not have enough mony to marry. Janet to vectulary for BRUCE HAMILTON, advertising manager of Every loma Magazine, and Roll works for the Atlas Advertising Co. Janet instate they msat have 500 in a RVing sccount befor they can he married.
HOWARD CRESSY, another employer of the magnsine, trice to make daten with Janet but she slamourages him.
She barried home from the office une Batur- day to prepare a surprise bethday dinner for Half On the way the seen a couple entering the falleable Brewster. Hoi Coffee Shop am at firal thinks the young man ja Holš Afterward she docking she was mistaken.
The dinner party is uocems. Rolf Leiks Janet there is something he wants to talk to her about but later evaden und ways to wha "nothing." He says he rennet are her next. day because he anteriaining an out-of-town friend.
MULLIE LAKIERT, who drew arrow the ball, comes in Janat's room to borrow some headache vennedy,
CHAPTER IV
The morning was gray and dismal. Snowflakes, melting to the touch, filled the air with what was more a drizzle had Rowstorm. The snow iheen falling for hours yet there was no sign of whiteness on the grommut only slush and mud. February was apparently trying to reven just how barren and dreary the world can be,
In the second floor bedroom of Mrs. Snyder's rooming house half- pulled blinds dimmed what little light there was Janet Hill awoke and moved restlessly, shut her pyes, open- ed them again and blinked, Kaising herself on ne elbow, she reached for her watch and raw that it was nearly 10.30,
Nearly 10.30! Yes, that was right, Janet looked again to make
siste.
The morning was nearly half gone. How could she have slept so late?
Instead of bothering to answer this question Janet snuggled down again
rm covers
But she wan • into the warm
1oment. the evil only postponing Presently, with a shiver for the chilly air, she sat up, pushed down the
།། cheete and blankets and was out
bed. She crossed the rom and clused the
the window. The
Then. standing in
midth of the room, she stretched her s luxuriously above her head.
Half an hour inter Janel had bathed, dressed and was busy squEEZ- ing urnuge juice with a green glass reamer. The percolator was bubbling foast and and the
adouts of picusant bacon mingled in the air. Janet had finished her own breakfast and was preparing a tray for Mellie.
When it was rendy she carried it across the hall. A muflled voice unswared her knock. There was the sound of the bolt turning and the door opened. Mollie, still in pyjamas, the yellow hair frowzled wildly, appeared in the narrow opening,
"Oh!" she exclaimed. "Aren't you the angel. And does that coffee smell rood! Come in!"
Janet entered and set down the
21, 1935.
LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
Janet gave a little gasp. In the centre of the room, facing her, stood a man she had never söen before.
ald entering and ordering a meal. But if might telephone. He hadn't
out of telephone call. Suddenly Junet VILM positively that he'd spend the whole she did that she might miss Rolf's day with the friend from tan. If he can there were half aenger to be home. If he should call she had made other plans and might dozen tasks that should be out of the and fail to reach her he would think way first.
not call again. Sho turned and re
•
She began with a shampoo-brush-traced her steps. It seemed she could ing her hair, rubbing framy suds into not walk fast enough. Actually it
. 2nd Nov. 8.8. "CONTE ROSSO" 10th Nov. tray. "Sorry to be nu late," she said it, ringing then out and repeating the was only 36 minctes from the time
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I overslept. Get back into bed, ces Mollie. I'll pull that little table ever
You and set the tray on it.
hair.
The rubbing and rinsing the left the rooming house until she There was no message on the ill table. Janet rapped at Mrs. Snyder's and vigorous drying that followed was back. the process the taffy coloured hair and asked if anyone had called drink the coffee while it's "ant to took more iban a half hour. Out of the set the wave as Mallic complies, Tropped up, with emerged a tuffy, lately waving her. No one hat. Well, that was ali
Janel used pins her, she raised the pillows behind
liked it. That was one of the ad right then! She went up the stairs.
Of course Rolf hadn't promised to to her lips. steaming cup
Uma wonderful!" she announced vantages of having anturally carling telephone. He had only said that he might if he could "break away early." "You shouldn't have bothered like "She manicured her nails, pressed annet reminded herself of this while this though, Janet. I feel lots betterfresh collar and ruff set, remembered she prepared a supper of left-overs. this morning. I have gone down to the rip in the lining of her cont sleeve The supper was not particularly ap
Rhe 414 no funger the corner restaurart only I was hazy and set to work repairing it.
petising but My cold's loosered and my
Time drifted . Outside the snow hungry. She ate, washed the disfter doesn't ache--"
hnd stopped and then begun, again, and cleared them away, Then
it's just the Line to be
dark in the room that Janet Six-thirty came and no
There had careful," Janet told her. "Really you had turned on the table lamp. Across Why was she so restlers
when she anl shouldn't go out to-day, It's wet and the alleyway she could see lights burn-beon ather Sundays
Rolf he had reporate engagements. miserable. If you stay right there in ing in the house opposite.
:r', bed
feel a to better for it
Almost four o'clock
now. The Not many of them, but still
By eight o'clock Janet told herself to-morrow"
rousing house was unusually quiet.j
radio that had been playing dance he wasn't going to cull. To prove music had broken off in a discordant that she wasn't even expecting a crash. The others in the house must be reading, sleeping or perhaps Rou
*
*
head
It was
out.
Subconsciously Janet knew that u doy she had been listening for Rolf's call. Several times the telephone had rung. Each time someone else had answered.
message.
message she slipped of her froek, geot into pyjemas and a robe. Then she crossed the hall to talk to Mollie.
Anyhow she could hear the tele phone as clearly in Mollie's room as in her own.
Mollte helped herself to some of the crisp bacon. "A cook like you," she said dreamily, "is simply wasted sit- Lypewriter. Why ting all day at don't
t'you get married, Janet?" "Why don't you? "Because," said Mollie vigorously,
The invalid was sitting at a table "nobody's naked me. That's not the
writing letter. Mollie's conversa- reason you don't though. I'm telling
She rose and moved to the window. tion, contrary to expectations, did not you, Janet, if a sweli guy like Carlyle wanted us to toddle up the "He won't call now," she told herself. prove cheering. It was devoted chief- le with him you can bet your bank "Not until Inter. I'll feel stuffy ifly to the details of Cousin Evelyn's roll I wouli't warte & minute! Not stay in the house all day. Better ga latest operation. It was to Cousin
Evelyn that
Mullie was writing. ne! Course it's none of my business out and get some air."
Janet, as soon as she could, made 1st F
think
you're making, a big She put on her coat and hat and
high galoshes In the hall she paused an excute and camo pway. In the hal! mistake.
to turn the knob of Mollie's door. she was surprised to find the door of The other girl, wrapped in a bath her room open. She stopped forward another instant the room was ablaze robe, was sitting up in bed, reading and felt for the light switch. In
magazine.
with electricity.
"Isn't it a big mistake to get marri- ed when you haven't any money?"
"Plenty of people do it."
Well-Rolf and I don't want to do that way. We're going to start:
"I'm going for a walk," Janet tok her. "Is there anything you'd like me to bring you?"
Janet gave a little gasp. In the centre of the rooms, facing her, stood a man she had never seen before,
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It was the same argument she had
Mollic shook her head. "Not ward with Rolf, "We want to start right," Janet had said over and over thing. Mrs. Snyder promised to send and he had found no answer. There up dinner. Wasn't that sweet of her? was nothing wrong with the argu- I don't know when I've had so much
And do I love 11:" tient; it was as good as ever. But waiting on
"How're you feeling?! midst of an explana- ddenly, in the
"Oh, my throat's a little sore but why it was so much better to wait and save instead of rushing otherwise I'm ok. Be all right la heedlessly into matrimony, Janet the morning I guess."
The following is the list of found herself faltering. After all sho "I'll stop In later," Janet promised.
local share quotations issued this wanted to marry Rolf! Last night "Sure you don't want anything?"
Molllo dinner in
was sure. Janet hurried morning. together
That the candlelight
was down the stairs, through the entrance what a home with Rolf would be hall and out into the late afternoon like. Any place in the world where dosk. The chill air struck her face sho and Rolf wore together would be, and a mowflake brushed against her. Kay and cheerful. And they could be cheek and melted. After the first so happy! Was money really so fear shock the cold air was bracing. Janet fully important-compared with hap- hesitated, then resolutely turned to pinces?
face the wind.
at
Then resolution returned. Janet
She walked briskly, head hent shifted the conversation and sat half-! listoning while Mellie, who was seldom slightly forward, hunds buried in her quiet, rattled on in a long description coat pockets. Three blocks, four of what one of her friend's friends blocks and she had reached Temple Avenue. Here there were shops, many| had seen on a trip to Chicago.
Presently Janet arose to go. The them with lighted windows. Stroet last of the buttered toast had been curs
clanged and a
by a policeman di- finished, the last drop of coffee gone. rected traffic, Pedestrians-most of Mollie hnd nettleit herself in
The all seemed hurrying] tho
down Halfway covers and sald she might be able to to get
the block Janot saw a rostaurant take a nap
"Remember," Janat told her as she It was a place where the food was paused in the doorway, "if there's well cooked, appetizingly servod. anything at all you want just knock Oftan an Sundays Janet ate there. and I'll got it for you."
It had been almost 11 when she had Back in her own room she sot to breakfasted and now she realised that
she
hungry. She considered work energetically. After all, Rolf||
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