The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-17
CHAPTER TWENTY

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w we're not in the least what
Janet had expected. He said, "You
know I almost joined up with a
circus once. 1 was Is and they were
going to give me job with the
tent crew.
Lord, but I wanted to go! I told
my uncle about it and he said il
I'd stay at home anG finish high
school he'd see that I got a job in
a circus incorporating I still
wanted it. So I finally agreed.
L still can remember hoy I felt,
though, when the circus train pulled
out Of town. Talk about disappoint-
ments"
Janet said. at must have been
hard"
Hard? Say-nothing's ever struck
me harder. I have a theory tnat
the diSappointments kid gets about
some trivial matter are just as Seri-
Gus for him as the way a grown
up feels about something really i'm
portant."
He went on to tell Janet about
his childhood in the little town
where his uncle owned a hardware
store. Both his parents had died
while he was still too small to re-
member them.
He had lived with his uncle and
his aunt until he was graduated
from high school. Then, instead of
joining another circus, he had de-
cided to go to college to study en-
cheering.
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 "on 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 Lancaster!
She told him about her mothers
death three years before. Janet had
been years old when her father
was killed in the war.
They fingered over the coffee and
dessert. The exchange of conf
dences seemed to establish a real
friendship.
When they finally rose to go, both
of them were laughing over a story
of Grants school days. Half an
hour later, tired but happy, Janet
said goodnight.
She saw Jeffrey Grant half q
dozen times during the next week.
She went to dinner with him twice,
and once to the movies. She called
him 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 advances. If
she thought once or twice some
thing he said or the way he looked
at Ter limited at a deeper interest,
he was sure to follow it with some
casual remark.
TIE was as different from Rolf
4 4 Carlyle as night from day. Rolf
had paid her pretty compliments
the second time he met her, had
given her to understand that he
was in love with her the third.
jeff Grant, on the contrary
talked about steel mills, the news
on the sport page, and funny
things that happened at the Office.
Mrs. Silvani nodded toward him
and said to Janet one evening
You're lucky girl to have a
/ young man like that one!"
Janet protested, "Oh, but it
isn't like that! We're-were only
/ friends!"
The older woman continued smil-
ing. Sure, I know! And you'll
make a fine couple, too. Oh, it's a
fine thing to be young! Times have
been hard for us, of course, but I
can remember when Pat and I took
the prize for being the best dancers
at the st. Patrick's day ball. We
used to dance every Saturday eve
ming"
Thinking about 1t afterward,
Janet shrugged What difference did
it make what Mrs. Silvani thought,
so long as jeff Grant understood?
! There were no sentimental notions
in Jef Grants mind. He wasn't
that kind.
She was surprised the next eve
ming when he knocked at her door.
Janet opened it and said, oh
hello! Won't you come in?"
He had stopped at the door to
talk to her once or twice, but he
never had entered the apartment.
Now he came inside. Janet dropped
into a chair and motioned him to-
ward one.
There's something I thought may
be you'd help me with" Grant said
heSitantly.
AL right. What is it?"
(To Be Continued)