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Small Town Girl

EPROM WELON METRO-GALDWYN-MATER MAS MADE A MOTION PICTURE)

THE STORY THUS FAR Kay Brannan, polite and beau-' tiful, han, waited four long years for her sister Emily to graduate from Wollesley, so that she her arif can enter and thua cacapó the dull uneventful town of

Car vel. While at college she hears U great deal of reckless Bob Dakin, medical doctor, whom she never meets. She becomes part of

social whirl and to върди mad

hor- ror, discovers an inherited taste for liquor. She decides to be care, ful. But in her sophomore sicar a letter from her mother tells her that financial revernes will revent her, staying in college. Kay is heartbroken. She be- lieves that Chick Rantoul, a friend of hers, would give her a job as his advertising assistant, but sha drearily decides to be dutiful and gu home.

CHAPTER VII

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[stockings," perfume them. 1 believe "Of course not!" sho repeated that would be new and amusing. | "'Only-ho's no different now, I al- “But anyway, that's the sort of ways feel guilty or something; fool work I'm supposed to do. It's fun, as if he were angry at me.” too and there aro. perquisites, But if Rantoul, outside of office Mother. I have a dozen palm of hours, pald her no least attention, their stockings to wear, for instance, yet Kay had no need to be lonely. no I can judge their merits in actual There were always Genevieve'a une. Then Mr. Rantoul sent me out friends whom Kay made her own. to whik along Tremont Street the Sho sald to the older girl ono 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) now one every wook!" to look at me aftor, I passed by,

Genevieve laughed. "You don't So you'll probably see a big advertise-know the half of it, yet," she con ment: Thirty-one per cent of all the fessed. "You've never even met l'aul men he pasacul looked back at her Drake, or Mat Conley. Ho's in the when she wore Oriental Silk.. movies, now. Or Luther Perins, or don't think it was altogether the Bob Dakin, or Ed Warren, or...

"I've heard of Bob Dakin," Kay stockings, though!!.

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"I'm supposed to be Mr. Rantoul's assistant. The firm is Burnett and

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DA- Her new existence setled, before my uncle. You know, Doctor

kin, the brain man." Kay did not the summer was over, into routine. know. "He cuta bullets out of brains She made one friend. Genevievo Fay was an artist employed by a casily as you sharpen a pencil,"

Genevievo assured her. "He's Kay's resolution to return to Car-Burnett and Gould; a bony frame, vel, to take up the responsibility that and a masculine quality about her, peach, really! Retired now, of course. Pr. Adams

Jatat consults, and occasionally Pres. Harrison waited for her there, held firm till curiously attractivo despite the net operates on a king, or someone equally Pres. Hayes

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

encounter important. Bob's in with first

Doctor Pres. Wilson Then another letter came from her feature. At their

she looked Kay frankly up and down Fabre, in the Clinic." She added, mother. Mrs. Brannan wrote:

and exclaimed:

half angrily: "He'd be a good man if "Dear Kay:

"I declare, you're the cutest little he settled down to it. Doctor Fabre I think it beat to tell you, before trick I ever now! If you've any told me so. Bul Bob's wild as a hawk. you come home, that Emily and brains in that hend of yours, it's a If he's not culling out some woman's George are going to be married. world's record! Are you as dumb appendix in a hospital, he's practising n little private osteopathy. Bob has July 14 know this will not seem like good news as you are beautiful?"

to you; but when you are older, your Kay laughed in a quick amuse- parked his car on every lack road in July 27 viewpoint will be different. George is ment. "I'm trying to find out," she Massachusetts in his Urae."

a good boy, and he works hard, and confessed. She frowned as though "He was supposed to come to Be is sober and steady, and very much, faintly puzzled, ant protested: "But | party where I wna once." Kay

in love with Emily. They will be does beauty have to be dumb? Mr, membered. But he didn't

come!" happy together." Emily is fond of Rantoul says you're ever so clever!" "He never doen,' Genevleve 08- hint, and grows fonder, now that shej other laughed. "Lady, you sured her. And she said wistfully. has made up, her mind. I thought wouldn't kid a poor girl, would "He makes no so mud, because he best to write you, no that you can be you?" She put her aTM armind could be a wonder if ho would! Ani careful, when you come, not to do or Kay's shoulders affectionately. "You his father and mother are as proud say anything to make Emily un- and I are going to get along. We of him, have so many plans for him, happy

match up so well. Mutt and Jeff, in so many hopes .... It is possible you may be. able to persun}"

Kay in her next letter to Emily get her Job at school. You can talk And they did in fact come to spoke of Bob Dakin. Emlly and

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August, at George had been married in June: Genevieve's suggestion, Kay joined and Wi Brannan nowadays Wax This letter was waiting for Kay her in taking a small studio, in one working as a clerk in Geurge's store. in her room,

little before supper of the oki houses on Louisburg Kay wrote: time. She read it twice, very slow-Square, where Genevieve could have

Babs Dakin. He's one of ly; and then she went downstairs and the north light she needed for her those legendary figures

you hear out of dears, neglecting supper, for work. The studio was also a living-about but never see You must have getting

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pointed out. "And remember, he was the man with Heloa couldn't afford it without you, Kay." that night she got arrested, so of Kay stared at this emblem The studio proved to be a popular course you know about him. It's though it were a thing she had:never! reen before; and then she went in and scores of friends, so that for months years ago you were down here, doing gathering place. Genevieve had hard for me to realize, Emily, that two with 1 steady resolution called Chick, Kay was in a constant surprise at Runtoal. When he answered, she their number and variety; and Sally people; and now you're keeping house no many things, seeing мо many "Chlek!"

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"I'm going to make you find she said. "But he never comes hore. last week that he's coming over for me when I was at Wellesley,"I've never met him. Helen told me piner for me," Kay told him den-I thought it would be fun working the Yale game. Ho must be a peach, perately. She tried to laugh, mah with him..."

or Emily wouldn't have liked him as aged a mirthless Round, "If you don't," she and, "I'll have to

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But he moved Rantoul, when Kay appeared at work at their men. Chick Rantoul away. So she married George!" his office in the morning, heard her has a level head on his shoulders. Sois why I made Chick Rantoul give "And that," Kay agreed grimly, with sympathy; but he tried to dia- long as you were an outsider, he sunild her from her design. "You've could play around with you; but now me a job. I won't go back to Car-

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I can't go back. I simply can't! I've "Of course not!" Kay insisted. toul? Is she really in love with him?

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"Not in love with him, are you, Don't miss to-morrow's thrilling in-

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