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One I Love
Chapter XXII
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By
LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
he repeated. "Getting on, aren't how long since I've been in the equi- try. We can make it a real pienie!" "Sure. Would 10.30 be too early Pauline Hayden entered the office It was intended as a joke but it did where Janet was working. There not seem a joke to Janot. Twenty-to start? Have to stop for the kids, was no one else in the room. Paulino
four was getting on. She was getting you know. There's a place out easi came over to Janet's desk and said on and there was so little to, look for of town I'd like to show you, Dog- quietly, "What's it all about? Do ward to except day after day of wood's in bloom now and it's a pretty you know?"
sitting at a typewriter or scribbling sight."
Janet promised to be ready at 10.30 "What's what all about?”
curves and dots and pothooks in a Pauline nodded toward Hamilton's notebook. Twenty-four she was, and and when Jeff rapped at her dour next desk. "Your boss is talking to Cham-life and happiness and the beautiful morning she was waiting for him, hers, isn't ho7 They've been at it things she had dreamed about were wearing a crimson sweater over her this flashed blue skirt and a crimson beret pulled half the morning. Something's go
past. All her mind but she said, "Yes," down over her head. Ing to happen around here, I'll bet!" throu
Jeff laughed. "In that outfit yo "What makes you think so?" Janet to Mr. Hamilton and smiled and won-
dered why in the world he should have don't look much older than Rosic," he asked.
I told her. naked such a question.
He saw that she had taken him neriously and laughed. "Twenty- It was no
"Oh-lots of things. I can tell by the way Bradford and Daily had while ago. their heads together a
they don't know what it is,"
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I wish there was any way to much older," she admitted, laughing: KOBE and RETURN "But there isn't anything strange manage it.
you ever see a more wonderful about Mr. Hamilton talking to
Janet didn't know if she should go morning?" Chambers! They're always having on typing or if there was something It was a wonderful morning. conferences."
know. But this is different." more he wanted to say. She hesitated clear, yellow sunshine made up In Pauline picked up a typewriter eraser and as she did so the man leaned for-brilliance what it lacked in warmth. The air was crisp and fresh. "As and toyed with it. "You'll nee I'm
"Tell me," he said, "do you like though it had been washed," Janet YOKOHAMA and RETURN right!" she prophesied.
said. The bright sunlight made the cals? Perkinu ents?”
I was preposterous! Janet couldn't little patch of grass before the room- believe her ears and yet she knew ing house a brilliant emerald and the that was what he had said.
trees beside the walk flaunted their "Why yes, she answered slowly small, fresh leaves bravely. "That is, some
I don't ke cats. them when they hite and scratch-".
Janet smiled. Pauline, who wouldn't for the world have asked a personal question, was always scenting such rumours. The fact that almost al ways they proved groundless never seemed to dampen her ardour. Janet herself didn't think it strange that; Mr. Hamilton should spend most of he morning in the business manager's
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Janet and Rolf climbed into the roadster and drove to the delicates- already sen shop. The Juuch had been ordered but to it they added Hamilton laughed again. So he marshmallows to be toasted on long had only been joking! Janet was sticks and tollypops because they accustomed to quick changes of mood were Rosie's favourite candy and dill Janet exclaimed in on the part of her employer but who pickles because had never seen him ne countered. They drove
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"They're all right," he nodded, not on the day after. He didn't say "Except, as you say, when they bite delighted with the prospects of the that he was going out of town, that he and scratch. Orserenade when pienie as were the children though had other business, or make any ex- want to sleep. Yes, cals are all right. they managed to be less boisterous planation. He simply told her ho Some people, though, hate 'en. Have about it. wouldn't he down. He outlined some a sort of absession about ens, Afraid
It was a day Jnnet never forgot. work that Janet was to do in hin ab- of 'em! Won't go near 'em!
You've
She was to think of it over and over | sence, told her he'd trust her to keep never felt like that?"
in months to come. The sight of the the shop" and departed fully three-
Janet said no, she had never felt ralling fields, the dogwood, trees quarters of an hour before the time like that.
loaded with blossomis, the odour of He usually left tho office.
For the rest of the day Mr. fruit trees, the sparkle of sunlight on Maybe Pauline was right. Janet Hamilton made no quere astounding the Hitle brook they
the didn't bother much
passed, about that. It remarks, The conversation in that violeta Tommy gathered into anything was to happen she would see way, as it always had been, bouquet for her, the smell of the Inow it soon enough.
cucerned with the regular routine of campfire seemed to perform
lutles. Whatever the
The songs of the birds, the reason may magic,
laughter and the rusn of The two days of Hamilton's absence have been for Mr. Hamilton to won children's dragged: There was little for Janet dier about Janet's age and whether the breeze ngainst her face were part to do and she preferred to be busy, or not she liked Persian cats, he did of that magic.
"Here out of doors," something When she was busy or when she was not disclose it.
freemed to say to Janet, "there la very tired she did not have time to The next day, Friday, and Suturday think. She avoided the other girls at morning passed uneventfully. Janeter and comfort. Here with no Homewards to:
except the blue sky there is the office, avoided Mollie Lambert, and shopped with Pauline Saturday after-quiet and red. Hearts do not break did not see Jeff Graut.
noan, went to dinner at a new tea
here Then on the third morning Bruce room and then went home to press So Janet went back to the office
his Hamilton was back at desk, dress and write some letters.
Monday morning rested and in a She had just finished the dress and braver state of mind than she had businesslike and brisk as usual. said nothing about where he had been, was putting the icon away when there known for weeks. She said "Good looked over his letters and went about was a knock at the door. Janet called morning to Mr. Hamilton when he out, "Who in it?" and went to the door entered and smiled. I letters had 6.8. "CONTE VERDE" ..3rd Oct. 8.s. "CONTE VERDE" 11th Oct. the day's work exactly as usual.
Once that day when Janet was to open it.
already been laid in a neat pile on 8.6, "CONTE ROSSO" ..2nd Nov, 8.9. “CONTE ROSSO" 10th Nov sitting at her desk typing she lookert Jeff Grant stond before her. "his desk. 6.8. "CONTE VERDE" 30th Nov. 8.5. "CONTE VERDE" ..8th Dec.op to find Humilton watching her. was wondering," he said, "if you'd She was frowning alightly, slipping
like to
to go for a
a drive out in the coun- a fresh sheet of paper into the carrier 6.5. "CONTE ROSSO" ..2nd Jan.Ja.s. "CONTE ROSSO" ..10th Jan. Her checks coloured.
Hamilton said, "Miss Hill, how old try to-morrow! We could pick up of her typewriter when Hamilton
Tommy
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snking ruins of the burned wind-mont plays the part of Jack Payne's mill in which Karloff, the terrible] war-time friend and composer of the | "Monster" of the story, hus supposed-tune. The director is Jack Raymond, Hy met his death. A peneant incau-whom Herbert Wilcox called upon as tiously enters the ruins, and plunges being pre-eminently capable of handl through the weakened Hoor into the ing
What Is
fundamentally a sincere viatura below. As he clings
richly human picture. Jack beam, a sight of horror micets his Payne's fascinating personality hus eyes. The Monster, terribly burned been perfectly captured and, thanks W. C. Fields has aquired a family but still possessed of his great brute to his sense of natural acting and of three in his new starring comedy strength, seizes
the
man with a roar, Jack Raymond's understanding direc "It's a Gift," produced by Paramount
and holds him under the tion, the Jack Payne ruge
of the film CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS FOR showing next change at the Queen's wat
water until hu drowns.
NEW SESSION The grotesque emerges unmistakably as the enter Theatre. They are Kathleen Howard, creature climbs out of the pit, savage tuinment figure the puble knows.
his wife, Jean Rouverol as
hisly throws, the peasant's wife to join Original music by itay Noble will daughter, and Tamm Bupp, as his her husband in death, and stumbles soon be heard on everyone's lips, young sun. They together with Baby off into the mountains. The Monster particularly outstanding is "Love is LeRoy, farm the featured support is at large again! Thus begins the the Sweetest Thing." "put over by ing cast for the new Fielda comedy story of "The Bride of Frankenstein" Jack Payne hinnell. about the hen-pecked grocer who nid to be the most hair-raising dran yearns to own an orange ranch in in the history of the screen, in which California where he can just rest and the monster leaves behind him a watch oranges grow. An inheritance
By its power to entertain, "Cab wake of death 2nd destruction. sible and before his wife can inter-Colin Clive. Valerie Hobson, Oters its right to acclaim as the sea- from his unele innkes his dream pos- Karloff supporting cast includesi Yourself," newest picture from the eur. The President, Mr. Y. T. Lee, m
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studies, regis-
to the history of the club. Since its if posted in London before I am. fere, from his daughter's young man and chester, Una O'Connor, Dwight Frye the Queen's Theatre yesterday, "it | co-operative spirit shown among the posted at 8'p.m. in London aro ids has bought the ranchi Heggie, Ernest Thesizer. Elin Iason's outstanding farce. Opening at organisation, only a year ago, the fine Those addressed to Vienna and stared cross
with his family. Their
rayally entertained the audience. Its members, he said, had been astonish- delivered on the following morn- crazy voyage in a battered old car in full of thrills and comedy. But when
tuughs range from smiles to
to guffaws And variety, they're they finally arrive at their destination
thick as blooms
Moscow is within 30 hours of In "Catharine the Great", which in a daisy field. But "Culm. Your- they discover that the ranch is noth-1
Mr. Lee emphasized the primary ing but a bit of txarren, sun-baited will be shown at the Oriental Theatre self" has more than hilarity. Posses- aim of the club "To cultivate good, London by airmail and Istambul nerenge. How fortune intervenes to Friday and Saturday, Douglas sing a strong story, it has been so fellowship among the Chinese who within forty-eight hours-British save the situation for Fields and give Fairbanks, Ja, le sold to give theft and its complications of theme strongly requested the present mem-
expertly directed that its pace is have returned from Canada"--and Wireless. him his dream ranch brings the film! greatest performance of his career. crystal-clear. In addition, It is born to organise a campaign for new
and many others.
"Catharine the Great"
o a happy and satisfactory conchu-jin
sion.
in the
finest part of his career. The are
"Calm Yourself"
European centres has been so speeded up that letters posted in fivered next day in any of about London are assured of being de-
twenty Continental cities.
Letters by night aerial service a short and encouraging talk referred to Paris are delivered at 7 am.
ing.
part of Czar Peter probably gorgeously acted by an all-round members, due to the fact that there THE PRINCE OF WALES "The Cowboy Millionaire" one of the most dimeult to interpret splendid cast beaded by Robert Young are such a great number of Canadian-
yet assigned to a young
actor. Mr. and Madge Evans one of Hollywood's returned Chinese now residing in Extremely unusual though it may Alexander Kordu, the producer of the most popular romantle teams. The Hongkong and Kowloon. be, Evalyn Bostock hesitated when picture, and Dr. Czinner the director, other splendid performers are, Betty Producer Sol Lesser offered her the felt that Douglas Fairbanks, Jn., was Furacan, Shirley Ross, Hardie Al
only
Morgan man young enough, yet with right, Ralph
the Penilleton. O'Brien in "The Cowboy Millionaire," suffici
reading feminine role opposite Geir suficient experience to undertake the
the
at Alhambra from Sunday to Tues-role. In the beginning of the film
and
Nat
Brolly an English film con-dual but as the film progresses mado "Street Scene" The Cro
cern.
+
CONCLUDES HOLIDAY ON. FRENCH RIVIERA
The following are the new officers.—
George Chow of President, Mr.
London, Sept. 10. Calgary; Vice-Pres, Mr. Enoch Bunn of Vancouver: Secretary, Miles Jean his five weeks holiday on the The Prince of Wales concluded Mark Toronto; Asst. Socy. Miles Toota Wong of Calgary; and French Riviera last night, when he
Dir. Lyman Quan of left Cannes.
He broke his journoy at Geneva before proceeding this morning to | Budapest,--British Wireless..
Toronto,
"Our Daily Bread" That warm, human, quality which Treasurer, The Champ" "The filg Parade", and other King Vidor productions such outstanding successes, la again the
read the inimitablo director's lat-able young husband, threatening not distinguishing feature of "Our Dally weapon of flattery on the impression. Brouetion which tora inte
day. Bliss Bostock had Come te young Czar, apart from frequent out-
normal indivi with her husband, a re-bursts of temper, is
and been married about shows the deterioration of his charat two years, with the understanding ter
Treacherous, amorous and cruci that the young and beautiful English by turns, and accentuated by a warp. fim actress would do no more picture as gens as the "Russian Hamlet"
яспе of humour, Czar Pater I work. While waiting
in a Hollywood restaurant for
husband, she was fund is an equally-difficult part-to-inter- aven by
Producer
Lesser and before pret as the Shakespearean role. the day was over, he had offered her part in "The Cowboy Millionaire".
the
Yet Miss Bostock hositated-not be-
cause she didn't appreciate the oppor-
"Say It With Music"
CHL
United
rtists | only the liappiness of the loyal little brings to tho
but the well-being of all her This dramatic film, which was
the King's Theatre to-day. wittiers on the farm as well.
not
only produced and directed by King Karen Morley and Tom Keene are This latest British and Dominions' Vidor, but written by him as well, cast as the young pair, while Barbara tunity, but because of her promise to production presents the popular Jack tells the thrilling story of a young Pepper plays the blonde serpent. Payne and his band, and, as his city couple who find themselves on John Qualen, who will be remembered her husband. However, a little per-admirers are legion, there should be an abandoned farm, amid a colourful for his portrayal of the Swedish no doubt as to the film's popularity group of men and women, from all janitor in both the stage and screen "The Bride of Frankonstein” Not only is this famous band bril walks of life, all determined to start versions of "Street Scene","
presented In
suasion did the trick,
JEROME KERN'S
Say it with life anew, with the sun, the soil, the some of the humour, while AddisonIKEDTA
in
Jamese Shricks of terror greet the scenes
now at the Star Theatre, but air and the water as their new allies. Richards is scen in the powerful role which actually open the story of "The a human story, written by William Emotional conflicts greater than of Louis, an escaped convict who
Liten Bride of Frankenstein", the blood- Pollock, aino entertains the onlooker. any that confronted
sacrifices
his own freedom for the curdiing Universal drama which The story, fictional, of course, con whirling vortex of the city enter their sako of the other sojourners in the King's Theatre oncerns the dramatic history of the lives and not the least of these ap- Arendy. A huge supporting east, Thursday.. There
11 penceful Irving Berlin number, which is fam pears to the person of a hard-boiled numbering several hundred players. sequence at the opening of the ple-ous throughout the world as Jack blonde charmer who invades this forms the mass background against ture. Then the scene fades into the Payne's signature tune. Percy Mar- potential Eden and uses the old, old which this dramatic story unfolds.
comes
to
storang
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GINGER, ROGERS COMING to the STAR.....
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