The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-23
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friendly. confident way. They
were practical eyes and the broad
forehead above them was prac-
teal, too. Janet had cheeks and
a throat like cream and her lips
were the dark, rich hue Of ripe
cherries. 1t was unusual to see
such creamy skin with gray eyes
but any artist would have told
tyou it was exactly right with the
waving. light brown hair that
glinted copper in the sunlight.
Right, too, was the well nodded
chin, the nose and generous lips.
And then, just when one had
Icatalogued Janet's features and
decided that here was girl who
was attractive and pleasant and
sensible, one saw the freckles.
Almost dozen of them scattered
across the bridge of that practical
nose and across the practical
cheeks. A dozen small but per-
'fectly visible freekles Of the same
golden brown as Janet's hair.
Somehow the freckles discounted
the matter-offactness Of that
jusinesSlike young face. They
we're likely to make you wonder
how Janet Hill looked when she
smiled. They made you want TO
wait and see,
CHE was % years old, 5 feet
~ inches tall and for two years
she had taken dictation, typed let
tiers, made appointments, executed
errands and done a hundred and
lone other secretarial duties in the
Offices of Every Home Magazine.
All this is necessary to a complete
picture of Janet Hill but all this
is, after all, quite minor. The
zone important thing to know
about Janet was that she was en-
gagged TO Rolf Carlyle.
That, at least, was the way
Janet looked at it.
They had been engaged for al
most a year, yet the mention Of
lRolf's name was enough to set
her heart beating a swift, exc1t-
ing tattoo. That warming and
quickening that made Janet won
der if all the world understood
how she felt about Rolf-and
blush at the thought.
1t was being engaged to Rolf
that made Howard Cressy's con-
tinued attentions so annoying. 1t
was being engaged to Rolf that
made working after hours-espe-
cially on Saturday - distasteful.
But it was being engaged to Rolf,
too, that had made the world a
paradise Janet Hill had never
imagined it could be, that made
the once ordinary city of Lancas-
ter suddenly the earth's garden
spot, that made Janet Hills
hitherto commonplace existence a
state of ecstacy beyond anything
she had ever dreamed.
Oh, yes, it was like that-being
engaged to Rolf. Janet was en-
gagged and she was in love.
She and Rolf didn't talk so
much about when they were go
ing to be married. They didn't
talk about it because it was the
one thing that Swallowed their
dreamy happiness. They wanted
to be married and they couldn't
because they didn't have the
money. That was why Janet sat
in Bruce Hamilton's Office from 8
o'clock until sand often long
afterward-five days week and
for half days on Saturdays when
she would so much rather have
been bustling about blue and
white kitchen Of her own. Give
up her job to cook and wash
dishes and mend and iron clothes?
Indeed she would! She'd have
been glad to.
For Janet and Rolf there
couldn't be blue and white kit
chen, a -'ine-clad bungalow or
even a tiny, cheap, third floor
apartment. They couldn't be mar
ried because the combined total
of their savings accounts was
$214 short of $500.
ITO Be Continued)