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JANET

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

HILL.

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ROLF

| CARLYLE but they do hot have tough money to imarry. Janet t BOTWAT for BRUCE HAMILTON, advertising manager of Every Home Meguaine, and Boit works for the AUM Advertising Co., Janet Isalata. they I must have £600 in a savings recount before

they can be married.

HOWARD CRESSY, another employee of the magasins, tries to make dates with Janet |but she dheourages kim,

She burries. home from the office one

Saturday to prepare curprise birthday dinner for Rolf, On the way the men a couple entering the Fushionable Brewster Jinlei Coffer Shop and at first thinks the young man Half. Afterwards she decides the was winken.

The dinner parly in a success. Rolf talk Janet there is something he wants to talk to her about but inter evades and says it was "nothink." He says he cannot see her next day because he is entertaining an orL-DE- town friend.

Sunday proven to be gloomy day. RO does not telephone. Janet visita w MOL LIE LAMHERT, who. Uren scross the hali. Kho return to her room and there confrunta A young man she has never seen before.

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CHAPTER V

The man found words first. "I

he stammered, "hope you don't

mean I didn't mean-that la-

1 guess I've made é mistake!”

Janet was clutching the pink bath- robe, holding il about her. It whe surprise and not fear that held her sprechless.

"Who are you?" she demanded. "And what are you doing in my room 7"

*I guess I've made a mistake,” the young man repented. His face hnd grown quite red. "You see I didn't know

But what are you doing here?" IL

was certainly but like Janel to use a tone like that, it wasn't like her at all. The words anapped out sharply. Shock probably was respon side for the stern way she eyed the

man.

-" he began desperately.

see I live here?"

"What?"

"Upstairs. On the next floor. My pame's Grant-more! in yestenlay. I'm terribly sorry about this. You

see when I came yesterday the woman

IN

iny room

by LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

Rolf aid, "Get your bonnel, youngster. We're going out to sat."

spoiled her plans. How many more times was it to hoppen?

Thinking of thin she jabbed a key

in charger. Snyder showed ane "Oh, Rolf, I'm glot you called! room on this floor she said was I'd been wondering about you. Dit vnenot. I thought this was it. And you have a nies time yesterday?" tonight when the electric light burned "Yesterday? Oh, just about want of the typewriter se vindictively thint out and 1 enolin's imd anyone down-you'd expect. I was going to call the machine jumps a space. She and Leits to get another 1 I thought I could ruu but there won't a chance. Listo ure the eraser and even then the borns the light from this roomien, Janet, I'm going to play basket-page was smudged,

The incident reminded her that it hall with the Dillows, to-night. How) chout having dinner together to-mur-was foutish to. brood over something she envldn't help. And of courag row? 0, K?"

things wouldn't go un this way. "All right. Meet you at 5:30. At Rolf was only trying to be nice to a to-morrow. TH-1 go now.

Tracy's." (That was the convenient friend who was lonely.

She was telling herself the same don't matter about the light-" corner midway between the two others f

met.) It was ridiculous to suppose this where they usually

"Bye, things, trying to find solace in the same arguments a few hours Inter young man could be a burglar. He honey,

as she sat in her own room with a seemed more.disturbed over the situn.

"Well, you see I didn't know that, I thought this was the vacant room I thought it would be all right to

take the

the light and explain about it

"Of course."

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tion than Janel More than anything i The connection was broken. Janet new magazine. Somehow her atten- he looked like a young man who has returned to her work but the day's in wandered repeatedly from the made an extremely embarrassing min-irritations and worrice seemed ud-printed page..

There was a knock the door und take and is willing to do almost any-denly erased. She didn't even mind Janet looked up, gratefully. Mollio thing to remedy it. Besides Janet that it was nearly six before she put Lambert's blond head appeared, par- remembered Mollie had spoken of a the cover over her typewriter and tially covered by a small green turban. new roonier. Gront--was that the prepared to leave the office. The Mollie wore a green coat and carried name? Yes, it was. Moreover there she put on her hat

and cout and glovea. was a vacant room on this floor, walked the six blocks to the car line..

"Just came in," she said. "I saw though at the other end of the hall. She had decided that as an especial

What in the world are The story seemed plausible.

treat next evening the and Rolf would your light.

you doing home to-night?". She would probably have smiled have dinner at that new lea room on

"Why shouldn't I be at home" and said she understood, that it was Franklin street.

Mollie hesitated. "Well I-well, of perfectly all right but suddenly Janet As it turned out, Janet Hill and course it's all right" Suddenly she remembered what she was wearing. Rolf Carlyle did not have dinner to-seemed to gain determination. "Lis-

pyjamas Dignity gether Tuesday night. At a quarter ten, Janet, maybe I shouldn't say this Passenger Rates: The bathrobe and fted and, striving to recapture it, the of 12 next morning Rolf appeared in but I think you ought to know! I sharp note came into her vakce again. the Every Home office. Janet, look just passed the Liberty theatre. "You'd better leave," she Balding up from folding a letter, saw him There's a road show there, you know shortly. "And after this please re-standing before her. member this room is not vacant!"

"Rolf" "The same.

In person Get your honnot, youngster. We're going out to cat."

"Tut, Rolf"

The young man moved toward the dour. He moved rapidly For the first time Janet took sketchy note of his appearance. She had observed "Not a word--not a word! Don't from the first that he was tall-prol intend to starve yourself, do you? ably six feet. Now she saw that his Have to eat. Well then, come along!" shoulders were broad and there WIN "But it's so early. I never go to an athletic look about him. Dark lunch until-oh, it is almost 12, isn't hair. Blue eyes, Good-looking? It? I suppose it's all right. Mr. Phe certainly wouldn't say that, Hamilton won't be back until 1:30" though no doubt eircumstances pre- "Of course it's all right. Let's get judiced her. The young man wore a going!" blue suit that looked exactly like

Over n table for two at the nearest those a thousand other young men cafeteria he explained. "You see I

wear,

No.

In the floorway he turned. "Sorry Happened to be in the neighbourhood.

to ace a follow in the Security

to have bothered you," he mumbled. Building. When I saw it was about Suddenly the girl relented. "Wait!" noon I thought we might as well lunch

I she said. "If you want a light bulb together, Afraid I'm not going to I have an extra one here. It belongs be able to keep that date to-night. to the house no you can keep it."

Janet, Don't mind, do you? It's

him.

She crossed the room, took the bull som thing I couldn't very well ret from a drawer and brought it to out of. This fellow I was with Sun- dny-well, I forgot I'd told him I'd That's awfully nice of you go to the wrestling matches with him Thanks!"

to-night. Being now in town the way "Not at

all. Good night, Mr. he is and not knowing anybody-well, Grant,"

you see how it in, don't you? And "Good night."

of course we can lust as well go some The door closed. Janet, being other night." feminine, took a quick glance in the Janet said yes, of course. They mirror to so if she really looked as badly as she feared. She wasn't in terested in Mr. Grant. She'd prob ably never see him again. She just

wanted to know.

Before the mirror Janet remem- bered she hadn't basted the collar and cuffs into her black dress. There was more time for it now than there would be in the morning. Sha took the drese

from the closet, got out needle and thread and set to work.

Rolf

evening.

Carlyle did not telephone that

It was 4:30 the next afternoon be-

could go any night. It didn't make the least bit of difference.

"Then that's that?" said Rolf cheerfully. "You know, Janet, that Hetlo car

сог told you about that's for sale

so cheap? Well, I was looking at it again yesterday

"But, Rolf, you know you can't afford to buy a car!"

"Oh, sure, I know that But I was: just looking at it. Say, it's a honey! Be pretty swell to have a little car like that, wouldn't it? Think of the long drives we could take-1"

Janet was amiling. "We'll have "You bet wo will" one just like it some day."

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fore she heard his voice, Janet and been busy all day, Mondays were always crowded, with Mr. Hamliton! in and out of the office, giving his They talked until suddenly Janet. accretory enough work while he was discovered that it was 10 minutos there to more than keep her busy in after one. Hastily she gathered up his absence. This particular Monday gloves and handbag. Five minutex had been nerve-wracking. An im-later they said goodbye at the entrance portant place of copy had been mis- of the Every Home Building. "You'll ald. There had been three-quarters call me to-morrow, won't you!"

hour of mad scrambling before Janet asked in parting. the pages were discovered, "It was

"Oh, surd. just after this during a moment of

Boifi blessed relaxation-that the telephone

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