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One I Love
BEGIN HIRE TO-DAY JANET J
ROLF engaged to CARLYLE but they do not have enough MOTHY marry. Janet lar secretary for BRUCE BAMILTON, advertizing manager of › Every Home ·Magazine mad Rolf works for the Aline Adverting Co. Jadet Inslate they must hare 6600 in a savings account before they can be married.
She hurried home from the office one Batur day to prepare a aurories birthday dinner for Rolf. On the way abe seen a couple entering the fashionable Brewster Hotel Coffee Shop and at first thinks the young man In Holl Afterward she decides she was mistaken.
The dinner party is a success. Rolf telle be cannot see her next day because he li entertaining an out-of-town friend. But- day proved to be aclareny day. Janet visits with MOLLIF LAMBERT, who lives arfine the hall. Heturning to her room, the ezecanters a young man she had never men before. He Introduces himself as a new zoomer - In the moming hoone aisi anya ble name la GRANT,
Hdf takes Janet to lunch and later breaks Inzer ankment. That samr nicht Mollie telis Jont she saw Bolf entering a theatre with another girl.
CHAPTER VI
Wide-Eyed, staring into the darkness, Janet Hill told herself for the hundredth time that there must be an
explanation of what had happened, explanation!
Of course there was ab
She couldn't sleep. What was the 7 She lay there in bed
use over and over it was
telling
all a mistake. Mellie hadn't meant Any harm. She had only seen some. one else and thought it was Rolf. That was what had happened. Of
course it WAM,
But suppose it were true!
She could still bear Mollie Lam bert's
slightly nasal voice, “-prs.int the Liberty---swoll musicn comedy, Who do you think
Carlyle and you should love
the girl with him-
itolt
seen
Mallie had gone on to deseribu Uhin Wearing a fur
girl. Little, she said.
coat that looked expensive, Pretty
if you liked that type. Sort of a brunet. She and Rolf (that is, the man she
Another ght was Relf) were with
The other girl wore
a blue velvet evening wrap and all of them were laughing and talking.
But didn't that prove the thing was endiculous How could Rolf be in a crowd like that how could he?
Janet refused to consider it. She wouldn't even think about such a story any more. She was makin herself miserable ever nothing. Rolf had said he was going to the wrestling And matches--with another must, that was what he had done.
Janet turned, She dug one hund) beneath the pillow for the handker chief that alrendy had become a ball of moisture. The tears came and there was no stopping them.
"I ought to get up and bathe my she told Eerself. They'll be eyck," red in the morning. I ought to stop thinking and go to sleep"
But then there was the whole thing to battle over aguir. She had seen She had been Rolf so little fately. Innely all evening.
..Brd Sept. 3rd Oct.
"I won't cry!" Janet insisted.
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the sandwich and put it down again. Rolf looked exactly the sarue; “Well?” "Where do we go frum Then she surrendered her seat at the he asked. lunch counter and went back to the here?" office.
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"Let's just walk, Rolf," Should she call Rolf?
Right" They lended down "will," Janet decided, "If I don't Franklin street, their steps matched. hear from him by four o'clock. May- Rolf swinging along eastly and Janet She turned again on the pillow, be he isn't in the office. I don't want keeping the pace. It was a little Life
without Rolf She couldn't to make him think anything's wrong. imagine that. Every plan she had
The made, every thought for the future
•
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Well?" thing they had talked about, the Janet was so happy that for a moment It wasn't easy for Janet to begin. little home! How could any of that she could scarcely speak. A feeling Relf's presence, after that miserable come true without Rolf?
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name.) "Yea. I've been busy. mement of besitation and then she a shudder she buried her face in her Oh all sorts of things. Yes, I re- made a brave start. Her voice didn't pillow.
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She was mistaken but it was want to see you. There's something| it. toward morning (still dark because I want to talk to you about.”
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"Who said that?" "It was--Mollie.” was going to happen.
Janet said that wouldn't do.
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They were slow hours that "Then it's true," she said, her ps Bruce Hamilton when he arrived at dragged. At 10 minutes after five scarcely moving. "You were there?
Carlyle's voice rose his office at a quarter ofter nine. It Janet put away her work. She hadn's was, with a forced, mechanical smile finished. That did not matter. If "What if I was!" he demanded," "In that she answers his "Gend morn Mr. Hamilton said anything she'd tell that any crime? We might as well ing."
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well. It would settle this thing right now. Janet. Hamilton, sunk immediately in the be true enough.
You know as well as I do our engage. Mr. Hamilton had nothing to say! papers spread on his desk, took no
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on
(To Be Continued). said "good the morning with a rush of activity, night" and disappeared. She paused dictating in a clear, brisk voice, call before the dressing room mirror to ing for letters from the files, asking see that her hat was straight and her to put through a long distance noticed how pule she looked. That to get Joe Carson on the wire, to wouldn't do. She didn't want Rolf Cunningham and ask him to look to know she had worried. She wanted to be able to laugh at the whole thing. the revised netedule, She did all these things, glad to be Opening her vasity case she took busy, glad because they kept her out the tiny rouge puff and rubbed from looking at the clock and wonder-it against her checks. Bright colour
There flamed back at ing when Rolf would call.
her. A Bttle too) moments, though, as Janet's bright. Janet removed some of the were pencil flow over her notebook when rouge, added powder and fastened the only force of habit carried her along. collar of her coat. Then loft the She heard Hamilton speaking, scrib- building. Iled stenographic symbols and all the
call.
find
over
•
had
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dressed up. And the girl with him! reached Tracy's drugstore. The clock What was that Mr. Hamilton had on the opposite corner pointed to just said?
Janet straightened. "I didn't 20 minutes after five. There would got that last, Mr. Hamilton. I'mbe 10 minutes to wait if Itolf were
punctual. He seldom was.
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