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SERIAL STORY-
One I Love
DEGIN BERE TO-DAY
POELEN JANET HILL CARLYLE but they do not have
money
ما
BOLF assooth
to CITY. Janet la uretary for BRUCE HAMILTON, advertising manager of Every Home Magasing, and Holf works for the Atlas Advertising Co.: Janet inzite ther must have $500, in a savings account before they can be married.
the office one the hurries home from Saturday to prepare a surprise birthday dinner for Relt. On the way the sem couple enteries the fashionable Firewater Hotel Coffee Shop and at first thlika the young man is. Rolf. Afterward site decken she was mle Laken
The dinner party is a sucorsa. Rolf tells Janet be cannot see her next day because friend. 1 le entertainjaz an out-of-town Bunday proves to be a roomy day, Janet Twila with KOLLIE LAMBERT, who v across the hall. Beturning to her room, she encounters a young man she has never seen before. Be introduces himself a TLOW roomer in the roominy house and says hie uzme is GRANT.
Rolf takes Janel to lunch and later breaka
a dinner engagement. That same night Mala tolia Janet she new Nolf entering a theatru with another giri. Janst tries to convince hemself Molle wa mklakan. She meets Rail
Angcity, engagement
the next day after work and tells his what Mollie said. Rolf zelairem "What of It! You know t docen's mean anything!"
CHAPTER VII
Janet did not seem to hear what
he was saying. "Then it's true!" she
Rolf--you repeated. "Ob, there!"
woru
"Well, I'm not denying it. I don't see that it's anything to make such fuss about, though. Is there any. thing wrong in going to see a show once in a while? For Lord sake, Janet, what's the use of pretending Things can't go on this way
"No," she agreed. "They can't yʊ on this way.”
He looked at her, surprised at the quiet tone. Rolf hated cunes as do all men. Was Janet really going to
sensible about this?
be
"Liston," he said more kindly, "I know I said I was going to the wresti- ing match. Shouldn't have said that, 'suppose. But I didn't want to-- well, to hurt your feelings. Don't you see, Janet! You know as well as I do that our engagement doesn't mean anything. You don't want to get married. If you did we'd have been married months ago. You think more of that job of yours than you do of me."
She was listening now. He saw that her eyes had filled with tears. "How can you way that?" she inter rupted. There was hysteria mingled with the protest in hor voice, isn't true. Rolf: Oh, you know .in't!"
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So there was to hen scene, after all. The young man frowned.
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"I wouldn't marry you now-not for anything!” Janst exclaimad,
to
As suddenly as her anger had come taurant more than 20 minutes but in spent itself. Tenderness swept that time night had descended. The over her face. "Oh, Rolf?" she cried street was a dark as it would be thej in a voice that was low-pitched, hours later. It was cold, too. Janet "I don't know anything of
frightened. "Gb, Roff!"
pulled her coat collar more closely sort," he said shortly. "But I guess
The young man's tone was frigid, about her throat, you were right about it. I can see
Thero, almost where she was stund. now we'd never have made a go of "If that's the way you feel about it. You and I are different. Janet. it," he said with exaggerated polite-ing, was the place Rolf hand stood. We don't even ilks the same things!" nean, "I guess I'd better say good It was there he had said those ter-
things. "You don't want The girl started to speak but what night. You can get your car at the rible
corner here."
marry me. You care more for your
of it Janet made her voice as cold as job! We'd never make a go ever she meant to say' was lost in a half-excaping sob.
"I'm not going home," she said. There were no tears in Jane's eyes "You never care if you're having s
"I'm-I'm going to have dinner down now but her hand rose as though to I do. I like to get out and town. Here. Ifere in this restaur-brush away the memory of that scene. She had said terrible things, too. go places, see
things and
They were in front of an enting She had told Rolf she never wanted what's going on. Sitting around home!
Janet to see him again. She had said she evenings gives me the creeps! Work place. It was a restaurant all day and save your money-that's had never entered, quite an ordinary wouldn't marry him. Well, he had last gone. Their engagement was ended. all you think about. Well, what's the looking place. Feed was the Une? We've tried it for almost a year thing in the world that she wanted It was all over. Everything!
then but the pretext would serve as She walked to the corner, turned now and it doesn't work. It never
ver well
She Into Centro uvenue and headed to. any other to get away. will! We could go on this way for
must get away from Rolf! This ward the safety zone where the street years and we'd never be any nearer
She earn stopped. She had almost reach- hered it when she paused. getting married than we are to-day, hideous quarrel couldn't go on.
whole soul she wanted to stay, "Oh, Janet--
"Janet," she heard someone calling. It's because you don't really want to wanted to get away, yet with marry me."
Not with the cold-eyed, unsmiling Rolf who was looking at her but with that other Rolf who had been affee- tionate and adoring. Couldn't he see she hadn't meant these terrible things
*
The Janet had found her voice. words sounded a little queer, not quite natural, but she said quickly, "I didn't know you felt this way, Rolf. Why
didn't you tell me?
ጌ።
ho had said? Wouldn't he under
stand this was all a a mistake?
thought we having good times"
He was speaking again. "Thon I'll Good times? Sitting through movies everyone else in town has reen leave you," he said. It might have been any stranger using that clipped, six months ago, tiancing in cheap formal tone.
rideswell chop suey joints, bus that's not my idea of a good time What doon it get you! Nothing! All the pennies und nickels you and I savo will never make us rich. tell
you, Janet, it's no use!"
"But you used to say you liked all those things!"
The tears were welling up in her eyes again. Perhaps it was because Carlyle felt a Unge of guilt, perhaps It was because he knew he was not
I
For just the fruction of a second the young man paused. For just the fraction of a second Janet's eyes raised hopefully. Then with a quick gesture Rolf touched his hat brim. "Good night," he said, and was gone.
嗑
She stood where he, had left har
put one. for several moments. She hand to her face and brushed away the tears. She did the same thing
blameless, yet refused to admit it, in without realising that she had
that he answered harshly,
"If I said that I didn't mean it.
I'm telling you the truth now."
A
done it. A man and a girl were coming toward her and Janet saw that the
Why not girl looked at her curiously. People didn't stand in the They had been walking along quiet cross street. At the intersec. middle of the sidewalk on Lombard tion, not a dozen yards ahead, the street wiping tears from their eyes. street led into a brightly lighted People who were sensible didn't do avenue. Janet could not bear the such things. No wonder that girl was
staring at her. thought of those lights. She halted. The sullen anger that flared in her voice was almost as much of prise to the girl herself as it was in Rolf.
kur-
"So you're telling me the truth!" she exclained. "Then why don't you tell me about that girl you were with Inst night! I suppose when you were Ro busy Sunday you were with her, too. Oh, you needn't go on explain ing! I understand. You liked to spend your evenings with me before you met her. She's the one who's changed your mind about-about everything!
That's not true. I mean-
Don't try to tell me what you meant And don't go on trying to explain, either. I woudn't believe you, no matter what you said! Why should I? After the lies you've told mo"
Aren't you making yourself rather Do you want the whole ridiculous? street to hear you?”
Pressing her lips together tightly, Janet turned and entered the res taurant. She found ecat at the side of the room. A waitress, short and handed her a menu card. *tout and
cheeks, with very pink "Would you like the special din- her " the waitres asked gliby, "Veal ateak with hashed brown po tatoes, string beans, combination salad and choice of desert"
Janet nodded. "Yes," she said That will be all right."
"Coffee to drinl; 7" "Yes. Coffee."
The waitress disappeared and re- turned with the food. Fifteen min- utes later she was back again. "I there anything wrong with the steak?" she asked, "Don't you like
Janot looked down at her plate. She had not eaten so much-AS-A mouthful. There's nothing wrong with it," she
said. "I'm--I'm Just not hungry."
She raised the cup of coffee to, har lips and drank some. It was cold and tasted biltor.
"I don't care who hears what I'm laying!" White-faced, chin raised defiantly, Janet met his oyes. !! "H you don't like it I can got
you something else," the waitress volunteered.
"No... It's all right:"
don't care if the whole world knows! I wouldn't marry you now--not for anything! Not after the things you've said, after the things, you've A few minutes later Jinet pald dong" --In-oh, I never want to see you | her check and went out into the again! Never! As long as I livol" street. She had not been in the res-
(To Be Continued).
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