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Small Town Girl

(PROM WHICH METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER HAS MADE & MOTION PICTURE)

THE STORY THUS FAR Kay Brannan, petite and bedut- tiful, has waited four long years. for her sister Emily to graduate from Wellesley, as that she her self can enter and thus escape uneventful town of Car- the dull vel. While at college she hears a great deal of reckless Bob Dakin, dical doctor, whom aho never meets. She becomes part of a mad social whirl and to her hor yor, discovera an inherited tanto for liquor. She decides to be care- ful. But in har sophomore year letter from her mother tells her that financial reverses prevent

her staying in college. Kay is heartbroken. She loves that Chick Rantoul, a friend of hers, would give her a job as his advertising assistant, but she dregrity decides to be dutiful and go home,

CHAPTER VII

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"Of course not!" she repeated.

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May 19 Then another letter came from, hero looked Kay frankly up and down Faure, In the Clinic." She

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that would be new and amusing. "Only-he's so different now, I al

"But anyway, that's the sort of ways feel guilty or something; feel work. I'm supposed to do. It's fun, as if he were angry at me." too; and flere nre perquisites, But if Rantoul, outside of office Mother.

I have a dozen pairs of hours, paid her no least attentiba," their stockings to wear, for instancy, yet Kay had no need to be lonely, Genevieve's were always so I can fudge their merita in actual There ure. Then Mr. Rantoul sent me out friends whom Kay made her own. to walk along. Tremont Street the She said to the older girl one day: other day, with a man about thirty How many men do you know, for paces behind me, to watch and see Heaven's sake, Genevieve? There's how many men turned their heads a new one every week!". to look at me after I passed by,

laughed. "You don't So you'll probably see a big advertian know the half of it, yet," she con ment: Thirty-one per cent of all the fessed. "You've never even met Paul men she passed looked back at her Drake, or Mat Conley. He's in the when she wore Oriental Silk.' movies, now. Or Luther P'ering, or don't think it was altogether the Bob Dakin, or Ed Warren, or... stockings, though!!

"I've heard of Bob Dakin," Kay "I'm supposed to-be Mr. Rantoul's admitted."

"So many Assistant. The firm is Burnett and

people have," Gene COLIVOT sak! Kobo hema caialu

Gould; but Mr. Burnett is old, and vlova agreed with a dry humour. Victoris

Air, Gould is nice, and I think Mr. Being heard of is Bob's speciality.

EUROPE, NEW YORK Leave

Arrivé Leave Leave Leave

Rantoul will get Partnership He's a cousin of mino. His father's

my uncle, You know, Doctor

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Her now existence settled, before kin, the brain man." Kas did not

Colombo, Bombay. Suez Canal, Mar. 11 Mar. 13 Mar. 19 Mar. 24

the summer was over, inte routine. know. He cuts bullets out of brains

Naples, Genoa and Marseilles. April 6

She made one fricin Genevieve 24 Mar. 26 Mar. 28

Fay was an artist employed by as easily as you sharpen a pencil,"

Genevieve assured her. "He's

8 a.m. Pres. Adama bony frame, April 11 April 16 Aprli 24 To San F'cinco

Kay's resolution to return to Car-Burnett and Gould; n

Just consults, and occasionally Pres. Harrison

Pres. Hayes equally April 8 April 10 April 17 April 22 vel, to take up the responsibility that and a masculine quality about her, peach, really! Retired now, of course,

waited for her there, held firm till curiously attractive despite the fact operates on a king, or someone!

one attractive two days before her last examination, that she had not

feature. At thoir

first encounter important. Bob's in with Doctor Pres. Wilson

ncided, E/Russia April 17 April 19 April 21,Apell 23 April 25

8 May 14

be n 6 May

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angrily: mother. Mrs. Brannan wrote:

and exclaimed:

to it.

Fabre it. Doctor E/Japan May lay

Juno 1

"Dear Kay:

"I declare, you're the cutest little he settled down E/A.in May 15 May 17 May 19 May 21 May 23

I think it best to tell you, before trick ever you if you've any take me so. But Bob's wild as a hawk. 3 June GJune 12 June 17

that Emily and home,

brains in that head of yours, it's a If he's not cutting out some woman's L/Canada May 29 May 31

a hospital, he's practising Juno 29

dumb appendix in a. George are going to be married. I world's record! Are

"little" B

privato

Dob has osteopathy. E/Russia June 12 June 14 Jono 10 June 18 June 20

1 July July

know this will not seem like good news as you are beautiful ? July

in a quick amuse- parked his car on every back road in to you; but when you are older, your Koy laughed E/Japan June 20June 28

viewpoint will be different. George is ment. "I'm trying to find out," she Massachusetts in his time."

"Ife was suppered to come to E/Asia July 10 July 12 July 14 July 16 July 18

a good boy, and he works hard, and confessed. She frowned as though July 29 July 81 Ask. 7 Aug. 12 he is sober and steady, and very much faintly puzzled, and proteated: "But party where I was once" Kay re- E/Canada July 24 July 20

in love with Emily. They will be doca beauty have to be dumb? Dr. membered. "But he didn't come!"

Genovieve "He never docs," Ang. 24 E/Russia Aug. Aug. 9Aug. 11|Ang. 13|Aug. 15

happy together. Emily is fond of Rantoul says you're ever so clever!" him, and grows fonder, now that she The other laughed. "Lady, you sured her. And she said wistfully. Aug. 20 Aug. 28 Sept. 3 Sept. 8

a poor girl, would "He makes me so mad, because he Aug. 21 Aug. 23).

has made up her mind. I thought wouldn't kid Sept. 21

around could be a wonder if he would! And best to write you, so that you can be you?" She put her arm Sept. 4'Bept. o.Sept. 8 Sept. 10 Sept. 12

careful, when you come, not to do er Kay's shoulders affectionately. "You his father and mother are so proud anything to make Emily un-and I are going to get along, We of him, have so many plans for him, Full information from your own Agent or

happy

match up so well. Mutt and Jeff in so many hopes.AN

Kay in her next letter to Emily It is possible you may be able to person!" get her job at school. You can talk And they did in fact come to a spoke of Bob Dakin. Emily and

at Georgo had been married in to Mr. Hodges about it when you warm friendship. In August,

Brannan nowadays Genevieve's suggestion, Kay joined and Will como home...

This letter was waiting for Kay her in taking a small studio, in one working as a clerk in George's store.

on Louisburg Hny wrote: In her room, a little before supper of the old housea

... Bob Dakin. He's one of time. She read it twice, very slow-Square, where Geneviero could have ly; and then she went downstairs and the north light she needed for her those legendary figures you

living-about but never see. You must have for work. The studio was also out of doors, neglecting support for room. It had ample closet space; heard of him when you getting everything. Sho hours, without knowing where or why; and two couches by day, became beds Wellesley, Genevieve says everyone guess that's till, suddenly she found herself in a at night. Genevieve insisted on pay has heard of him, and I

so, because whoever you meet is al- lighted square, and saw a drug store, ing two-thirds of the rent and the blue bell that marks a public for me," she

"Because it's home and office both most sure to mention him. Oh I pointed out "And remember, he was the man with Helen telephone.

couldn't afford it without you, Kay!

that night she got arrested, so of Kay stared at this emblem as The studio proved to be a popular course you know about him. It's place. Genevieve had hard for ins to realize, Emily, that two acen before; and then she went in and scores of friends, so that for months years ago you word down here, doing with a atendy resolution called Chick Kay was in a constant surprise at so many things, seeing 30 Rantoul. When he answered, she their number and variety; and Sally people; and now you're keeping house Mid

And

·Hayn Helen Ripley and Marny for George, and going to have a baby "Chick?"

Bingham and the other girls whom in May "Yes. Who's this?

Kay had known most intimately at Her pen stopped, and the re-read "Kay Brannan, Chick."

Wellesley liked to come in for tea, what she had written, and then shook usually escorted by youngsters of her head and took fresh sheet of their own age. Then there were half paper and copied the first part of her dozen men who liked, to take letter over again, omitting this last "I don't know what time it is," she Genevieve to the theatre, to a foot-

passage.

Then she crumpled the ori said, and her voice shook a little, ea ball game, or some othor festivity; ginal sheet and dropped it la the and when two of them offered invita waste basket at her side. Genevieve occasion, Gene saw the gesture and sald in a deep vieve usually appealed to Kay to quicklying the matter?" he asked tions for the same

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