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One I Love
CHAPTER XL
In the roadster's headlights the two figures stood out boldly. The girl was in white and the man in evening clothes. Behind them little way down the road Janet could make out the outlines of un auto- mobile.
"Need any help?" Jeff called, The man hurried forward. "Would you be willing to take us to the nearest farn house ?" he asked. "There must be one down the road a little way. Something's wrong with my car and I'll have to call a garage. If you could give us a lift
"Sure!" Jeff agreed. "We can do that, Only there's not much room. Do you think you can crowd in?"
The girl had stepped out of the light and the man turned toward her. "They'll take us." he said. "Come
She stumbled a little as she came forward. The spike heels of her evening slippers had not been made for country roads. "You get in," the man said, taking her arm. "I'll stand on the running board."
There was room in the seat of the rondater for three. Jeff opened the door and the girl in white stepped inside. As she did so her escort "Smoke?" he asked, offering them "Yes, thanks."
to
out package of cigarettes.
Janci declined and so did the girl In white. There was a note in the girl's voice that bad caught Janet's ear. She looked at her curiously. Jeff struck a match and in the light of the tiny flame the feces of both strangers were clearly vialble. Betty Carly and Van Bannister,
was no need to ask if Betty had recognized her. Ench girl eyed
in amazement.
moment wat the brist-for-anything else. Then the flame from the died away and they were in darkness. Bannister, pulling his cigarette, had closed the dear of the car. "I'ni all. right out here if you don't hit any bumps," he said. If he had glanced at Janet he had not recognized her. "Rotten rond to have ‘a break-down on!"
*
He talked as they drove but Betty
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by LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
had learned as a little girl. It was about an Irishman who took his pig to market. Jeff laughed at it and then joined in the chorus.
"That's
撸
good,song," ho sak
AUDH
one about
"Did you. Named Bill'
for looks but it always takes us home!"
Janet thought of Van Bannister's big, alate-coloured car. What was the had told her It could do? Eighty miles an hour? Perhaps that was why it was lying out at the side "The of the road now. She thought of Betty and Van Bannister hurtling along the dark country rond at break neck speed. That was the sort of thing that gave Betty a "thrill."
*
"No. How does it go?". "Well, I'll sca I can remember-" It was nearly midnight when she told him, good night and les herself into the house. As far as Janet was down car had come to an end. There concerned the episode of the broken- was more to it, however.
It wasn't right though and it didn't look right. Why wasn't Rolf with them? Janet, remembered the day Betty came to the station to see her Mother off for Silver Bay. She had
Two days later Betty Carlyle ar- talked about meeting Rolf for lunch but instead it was Bannister whom rived at her mother's home late in the she had met. Was Betty, besides morning. Betty wore a brown sult being strong-willed and selfish, and a small brown hat with a vivid orange bow on it. She was due at a chent?
luncheon at the club at one o'clock, she
said.
Betty had scarcely seated herself when she discovered that she had for gotten a book she had promised to Lake to Peggy Jamieson.
She decided to put the whole thing out of her mind. She said suddenly, "It's funny. Jeff, but I'm hungry."
He laughed. "That's certainly coincidence! I was thinking the same thing myself. Well, we'll stop at the
#1 wouldn't mind," she said "only Reifteen
barbeque."
minutes later be halted I forgot it once before. Could Janet the car before
a brightly lighted get it for me? I'd telephone to Marie frame building. A boy in a white but she isn't there. It's her after- cent and cap brought them sand-noon off and I let her go early."
why, yes,
Mes, Curtis agreed. wiches of tender, delicious chicken
Janet
can go." and ateaming cups of coffee.
"Such
Five minutes later Janet departed Tood!" Janet exclaimed. don't know, when I've tasted any with a key to the apartment and in-
structions where to book. thing so good."
was lying, Betty said, on a table in her bedroom. She couldn't possibly miss it.
Over the rim of the cup of coffee Jelf looked at her. "Still sure your mind's made up to leave Lancaster?"
She nodded. "It's the best way all around. Better for me and everyone else."
I miss you."
"That's nice of you. I'll miss you too, Jeff. But we'll write to each othor. In a year or so you'll be run ning that office,
y
He laughed shortly. "Fat chance! Sometimes I think about pulling out of this town myself."
"Oh, but you mustn't! You mustn't even think about it. Why, you're get ting on so well!"
"I don't know about that," He was glancing off into the dark. nya.
She could not see his eyes. There
£1 Was
pause and then Janet
"
No socher was she out of the house than Betty snapped shut the vanity case In her hand. She slipped it into her purse and turned toward her mother.
There's something, sho Raid, "I think I
I should tell you." "What is it?" "Well, it's about that girl Janet. 1 think you should get rid of her,"
"Betty What in the world are you talking about? You know I couldn't get along without Janet."
But
"I know you think you can't. just the same you should. She's not the sort of girl to have here in the house. I nenn I wouldn't trust her."
#Betty, that's nonsense!" "Oh, you can say that all you want You can defend her! I was ex- peeting that.
you'd But If
seen what anw the other night" "What ever are you talking about?" "I tell you," Betty, said grimly, After a moment he asked. "How "Rolf and I were driving with the
sandwich?
Jamiesons. It liappened two nights
was silent. She drew her brief wrap her "She-hasn't changed
about ber more closely, looked straight ahead and did not
speak
said
"Apparently not."
“
ས་
to.
oven when the lights of a farm liouse about another Listen, Jeff, I guess ago. We were coming along a long!
appeared. the house and Jeff stopped the car A few minutes later they reached Van Bannister
was profuse in hle thanks and offered a bill. Jeff told him "forget it," wished them luck and drove away.
"Good
to
"No, thanks, lent as well as anybody how hard things are but they'll get better. I'm I know as. sure they will Everybody gets over things that hurt them after a while."
suppose they do." Suddenly
Janet stirred. "Here
stretel of road and had to stop for gas. While we were waiting another car drove up. There was a crowl of four or five in it--I'm not sure which but they were dreadful looking people. Three men and
came alone for those two that we we're
he told Janet. "They'd new japosed to be celebrating your Janet was one of the two girls and '
sho exclaimed, "and we're have had quite a walk if we hadn't." as cheerful as
дв pair of owls. Let's Janet agreed.
think of something lively, "Start the car and I'll sing a song for you."
"Seema to me I've seen that fellow somewhere," Jeff went on, "but I can't pluce him. Pretty girl, too, Well, this old car may not be so much
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NOTES FROM. THE THEATRES
setting
She did, too. As the roadster covered the road ahead she sang a verse and the chorus of a song she
recognized her immediately. From the way they acted they must have been drinking.
tell you it was disgusting. She's not the sort of girl to have here In the house and I want you to get rid of her!"
(To Be Continued),
betrays the governor, his best friens). O The others in the cast are Arthur most-contagious laugh-in-the-world screen, The strangest, silliest, Aylesworth, Willard Robertson and So now he has insured it. For one William Davidson. William Dieterle hundred thousand dollars. When he lirected the production: from the took his medical examination for the screen play by F. Hugh Herbert, Tomsurance, the doctors all init got his Buckingham and Mary McCall Jr.
"Abdul, the Damned"
lurynx out, Frank says, and twanged on it. But he gut the Insurance, George White, who has sponsored
Frank's contagious laugh can be fifteen musical hits on Broadway, has
Fritz Kortner, who plays the title heard in "Guld Diggers of 1935" a created A richer, mare gorgeous role in the B.I.P. pleture, “Abdul the mammoth musical comedy romance edition of his popular screen "Sena Damned" was born in Vienna in 1892, and gorgeous spectacle, Three
ree hun- "George White's 1936 Sean and educated. In that city. He only girls take part in the dances created dred of Hollywood's most beautiful dilla
ia new standards
on the stage at Mannheim when scintillating entertainment, comes 01
seventeen years old and from there he by Busby Berkeley, who also directed Saturday to the King's Theatre. went to Reinhardt in Berlin. He the picture. The all star cast includes Fox Film's 1935 version is said to be appeared in the German versions of Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria
the so spectacular that it makes Brond
"Atlantic, B.I.P. fins
Stuart, Alice Brady. Glenda Farrell, "Cape Frank Melfugi, Hugh Herbert, and and Forlorn" way self-conscious. This
new
and "Dreyfus" "(us Drey- opulent model in copsidered to be 365 fus). He starred with Anna Sten in Joseph Cawthorn, times richer and more sense-stirring the French and German versions of than the first one, It boasts haunt "Brothers Karamasoff" and appeared ing and peppy melodies, a rich stage in "Schatten" and "Der Andere". He William Powell and Ginger Rogers, extravaganza, a wealth of stars and also directed for UFA the film "Der in RKO-Radio's "Star of Midnight" beauties.
contribute Ali
towards Brave Sunder," which proved a great bring to the screen perhaps the best sparkling entertainment for young and
In Paris. Filmgoers will of the modern mystery dramas, show. that could alone sustain interest with probably remeniber hls recent per- ing to-day at the King's Theatre.
The picture holds a strong story success
rithformance ne Abu Hasan, the robber Strong in story value, brilliantly C11- Its romantic element drawn from clef, in "Chu Chin Chow." Abdul netod, expertly directed and hand- small-town American lured by the the Damned' will be shown at the somely mounted, the picture siren calla of Broadway and folly. Alhambra from to-day.
excitement,
and
wood. Suspenso, pathos pulse through the plot. The coming "Scandals" has for mugnets
nce
"Woman. in the Dark"
Those who like liberal doses of red-
andost living writer of mystery thril
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2
"The Star of Midnight"
A. Sparkling, dia adis greatly to its thoroughly rounded entertainment. Powell, as Clay Dal- a brilliant attorney who is drawn into the solution of a perplexing mys-
and Miss Rogers, an Don
wilful young society beauty knows the man she wants to
a handful of stage and screen stars whose names have binzed from the blooded action and constantly increas marquees of Manhattan's proud playing suspense in their movies have a houses. Contributing to the gaiety treat in store for them at the Star
Ned Theatre this week, where "Woman are Alice Gaye, James Dunn. Sparks, Lyda Roberti, Cliff Edwards, the Dark" opened yesterday. Dashiell marry and how to get him, are fren Arline Judge, Eleanor Powell, Emma Hammett probably is America's fore-at their best. Outstanding support is
by A til- uscorded Donn, Benny Rubin,
a versatilo cust which White, who conceived, produced,
lors, and in "Woman in the Dark" be includes Ralph Morgan, Gene Lack- hart, Leslie Fenton, Paul Kelly, J. irected the entire production. The has surpassed even his own fine record Farrell MacDonald, Russell lopton picture has seven stage extravaganza The Glass Key" and "The Thin
made with "The. Maltesden and and six new song hits, by four of
an." Roberts an Oakland.
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Veiller and "I Was Born To about-town, Melvyn Douglas makes picture down on the "must see list.
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