The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
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 LYLE have been engaged almost n year. They have put on their marriage because Janet insists they must have $500 in n sav- ings account first. Rolf enjoys spending money and the rigid economy necessary to save this amount Is distastefuI to him. Janet works as secretary to BRUCE HAMILTON, advertising manager of Every Home Maon- zine, and Rolf is employed at an advertising agency.
 Janet deeply in love. is not suspicious when Rolf begins to make excuses for not coming to see her. One night he breaks an arrangement with her. MOLI.IE LAMBERT. who lives across the nali, tells Janet she has seen hOif enterings theater with another girl. Janet meets Rolf next day after work and tells nim what MOllie has said. Rolf becomes angry, says their enc gagement is meaningless and that
 IT Janet really wanted to marry him she would have done so long ago. They quarrel and Rolf leaves. Janet Is about to board a street car when someone calls her name.
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 CHAPTER VIII
 The voice was mans but Janet knew before she turned that it was not ROlf's. She looked back and saw Howard Greasy hurrying toward her. Greasy, notion di- rector at the Every Home office. was as usual smiling too broadly. Janet would have avoided him any. where. The man seemed absolutely snub-proof. A dozen times she had refused his invitations and still he persisted in offering them. To- night, when she wanted more than anything to be alone, meeting How ard Greasy was too much!
 Hello, Janet" he cried. "Going home? If you'll walk a block to the garage where keep my car I'll drive you out"
 The street. car had halted. Its doors slid back and the men and women waiting pushed forward. Janet told herself she had to board that street car.
 Greasy was beside her now. "I- I'm sorry," the girl began, but I'm afraid l can't wait. Some other time-''
 She mounted the car step. Over one shoulder she looked back and called, Thanks just the same."
 The young man stood on the curb and watched the car disappear. Janet did not see him. She found seat. sank into it, and turned her face to the window pane. It was Yvnlrah cha nnt,1A IN <N o1a out the sight of the other passen- gers, to protect herself from star ing, curious glances.
 The street car jolted on its way. It passed the business district. Now it was moving along street where the only buildings were low, dark, deserted looking-that least desira- ble section of Lancaster, known as "the flats"
 Janet pressed nearer to the win- dow. The blackness outside was no more dismal than her own heart, no more hopeless than tho future that seemed to stretch ahcad. Everything she had counted on was gone. All the happiness she had planned-all her dreams. She and Rolf were not going to be mar ried. They were not engaged any more. Rolf didn't love her. He had as much as said 50. Oh, how could it all have happened? How could such things be true?
 The whol day had been misera- ble but she had never imagined anything so terrible as this. She remembered how insistent she had been on seeing Rolf. All day long she had assured herself that as soon as she saw him and talked with him everything would be right again. Why had she telephoned? :? Why had she urged him to meet her? If she hadn't done that this terrible thing couldn't have hap pened.
 She pressed her two hands to- gether until they hurt. She must not give way before these other people.
 The car logged along, stopping. starting. The 40-minute ride had never seemed to long but at last 1t came to an end. Janet hurried up the walk, let herself quietly into the rooming house. She was glad she did not meet anyone in the hall. Without stopping to see if there were more letters or a mes- sage she ran up the single flight of stairs.
 Then at last-the blessed sanctu- ary of her own room! Janet en- tered, closed the door behind her and turned the key. Without turn ing on the light she flung herself face down on the bed and let the tears come.
 
 There were times during the days that followed when Janet was able, by means of frequently rehearsed reassurances, to convince herself that it was only matter of time until she would hear from Rolf. He would telephone, she told