The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-17
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gaeement with ROLF CARLYLE
after learning he has been going
out with BETTY KENDALL, a So
ciety girl. Janet is secretary to
BRUCE HAMILTON. advertising
manager of Every Home Maya
zine, and Rolf is employed in an
advertising office.
She still loves Rolf and can not
forget him. On a stormy March
evening when she feels lonely and
unhappy Janet leaves the office
and walks down an unfamiliar
street. She hears little girl cry
ing, talks to her and later buys
her hot meal. The little girl is
ROSIE SILVANI. She has been
trying to sell candy and lost her
money.
Janet starts out to take Rosie
home. A holdup man grabs jan
cts purse and Rosie screams.
JEFFREY GRANT, a young engi-
neer who lives at the same room-
ing house as Janet, suddenly ap-
pears and the holdup man runs.
Jeffrey takes Janet and Rosie
to the Silvani home in his car.
They talk to PAT SILVANI, the
father, who has been out of work
for two years, and to TOMMY,
Rosie's crippled brother. The fam
lily is almost destitute and Janet
and Jeffrey decide to adopt"
them.
They send food and clothing
and, with the aid of her employer,
Janet finds steady job for Pat.
Later she and Jeffrey take the
children to a circus.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER Xxx
When Jeff spoke the words were
not in the last what Janet had en-
pected. He said, "You know | al
most joined up with a circus once.
was 16 and they were going to
give me q Job with the tent crew.
Lord, but | wanted to go! ] told
my uncle about it and he said if
I'D stay at home and finish high
school he'd see that l got job in
circus then-providing | still
wanted it. So I finally agreed. I
can still remember how | felt,
though, when the circus train
pulled out of town. Talk about
disappointments"
Janet said, at must have been
hard"
lizard? Say--nothing's ever
struck me harder. I have a the
DRY that the disappointments kid
gets about some trivial matter are
just as serious for him as the way
grown-up feels about something
really important"
He went on to tell Janet about
his childhood in the little town
where his uncle owned a hard,
ware store. Both his parents hal
died while he was still too small
to remember them. He had lived
with his uncle and aunt until ne
was graduated from high school.
Then, instead of joining another
circus he had decided to go to
college 70 study engineering. He
had worked to earn part OF his
expenses. borrowed the rest and
paid it back. For the last year
now he had been strictly con his
own"
Janet told him about the little
town where she had lived, too.
So long ago it seemed since she
had left there and come to Ian
caster! She told him about her
mothers death three years be-
fore. Janet had been eight years
old when her father was killed in
the war.
They fingered over the coffee
and dessert. The exchange of con-
fidences seemed to establish a real
frindship. When they finally rose
to go both of them were laughing
over a story oil Grants school
days. Half an hour later. tired
but happy, Janet said goodnight.
She saw Jeffrey Grant half a
dozen times during the next week.
She went to dinner with him
twice and once to the movies. She
called hmi Jeff" now. just as
naturally as he called her Janet.
And she learned almost immedi-
ately that Jeff Grant was not
given to making sentimental adj
vances. If she thought once OF
twice that something he said Or
the way he looked at her limited
at a deeper interest he was sure
to follow it with some casual re.
mark.
IL = I:
He was as different from Rolf