The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-28
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JANET HILL breaks her en- gagement with ROLE CARLYLE nfter learning he has been going out with BETTY KENDALL. Q so- ciety girl. Janet is secretary to BRUCE HAMILTON, advertising manager of Every Home Rfaga- zine, and Rolf is employed in an advertising office.
 She still loves Rolf and can not forget him. On 6 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 ROSIE SILVANI.> She has been trying to sell candy and lost her money.
 Janet starts out to take Rosie home. A holdup man grabs Janets purse and Rosie screams. JEFFREY GRANT, 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 SiIvani 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 family is almost destitute and Janet and Jeffrey decide to adopt" them.
 They send food and clothing and, with the aid of her employ CT, Janet finds steady job for Pat. Later she and Jeffrey take the children to circus.
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 When Jeff spoke the words were not in the least what Janet had expected. He said, You know I almost Joined up with a circus once. was 16 and they were go- ing to give me job with the tent crew. Lord, but wanted to go! I told my uncle about it and he said if I'd stay at home and finish high school he'd see that got a job in o circus then providing I still wanted it. So finally agreed. I can still remember how felt, though, when the circus train pull ed out of town. Talk about dis appointments"
 Janet said, "It must have been hard"
 "Hard? Say - nothing's ever struck me harder. have a theory that the disappointments a kid gets about some trivial matter are a 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 had died while he was still too small to remember them. He had lived with his uncle and aunt until he was graduated from high school. Then, instead of Joining another circus, he had decided to go to college to 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 lon his
 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 Lan- caster! She told him about her mothers death three years be- old when her father was killed in the war.
 They fingered over the coffee and dessert. The exchange of condolences seemed to establish a real friendship. When they final ly rose to go both of them were laughing over story of Grants : school days. Half an hour larer, tired but happy. Janet said good night.
 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 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 ad- vances. If she thought once or twice that something he said or the way he looked at her hinted at a deeper interest he was sure to follow it with some casual re- mark.
 He was as different from Rolf Car lyle as night from day. Rolf had paid her pretty compliments tn. second time he met her, had given her to understand that he was in love with her the third.
 Jeff Grant on the octnrary, 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 a lucky girl to- have 8 young man like that one!"
 Janet protested, "Oh, but 1t isn't like that! We're - we're only friends!"
 The older woman continued shilling. Sure. 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- ni8G-"
 Thinking about it afterward