The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-04
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 marriage is off. Janet is 23, pretty and secretary to BRUCE HAM, ILTON, advertising manager of Every Home Magazine.
 She still loves Rolf and cannot forget him. JEFFREY GRANT, young engineer who lives at the same rOOming house as Janet, ape pears one night just fin time to save her purse from Q hoIdup man. Janet becomes interested in the SILVANI family, almost des. titute. Jeff helps provide food and clothing for them and later they find job for PAT SILVANi, the father.
 Jefr and Janet become close friends. He asks her to help him select a gift for a girl and they buy Q purse. When Janet-se in newspaper headlines that Rolf has elOped with Betty Kendall she tells Jeff about her broken engagement and says she will never care for anyone else.
 A few days later Bruce Hamil- ton tells Janet he is leaving the magazine. The staff is to be re. duced and her job will be gone. Hamilton says his sister, MRS CURTIS, needs a social secretary and that he has recommended Janet. She goes to sec Mrs Cur- tis and is hired.
 On Saturday she moves to her new home. She is unpacklng when the maid announces there is . call for her on the telc. phone.
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 CHAPTER XXVI
 Janet looked up, puzzled. 'Why, who could it be?" she asked. q don't know who could be calling me-"
 T don't know, Miss Hill," the maid said. "He didn't give his name. There's only one telephone on this floor and it's in Mrs Cur tis' room. You can use the one downstairs in the library"
 Janet hurried down the stairs. Was it Jeff, she wondered? Who else would know where to reach her? And why had he called?
 "Hello," she said. "This is Janet speaking"
 But 1t was not Jeff Grants voice that come to her. It was Bruce Hamilton and he had a message for Mrs Curtis. He would not, he said, be able to keep an engagement for dinner the next day but he would be out later in the afternoon. He asked Janet how things were going and seemed pleased with her report.
 TT see you tomorrow" he said. "Yes, I'm getting away tomorrow night. Deuce of lot to do yet, tool"
 Janet said good-by and went up the stairs again. She felt a disap- pointment she would not quite ad- init. She hadn't expected Jeff to call her. There was no reason why he should. And yet the big house seemed deserted and lonely.
 "lt won't be like this later" she assured herself. "I'Il get used to it-and besides I'll be busy"
 She returned to her unpacking, folded lingerie and laid it away in the chest of drawers. She hung her dresses in the closet and arr ranged the top of the dressing table with two crystal bottles that wefe prized possessions and a china powder box. 2 When she had taken everything out of the trunk and travelling bag she slipped off her dress and ran warm water into the tub. She had 8 lazy, luxurious bath and then, wrapped in negligee, lay down on the bed. But she, did not sleep. There were SD many things to think about. She was still in Lancaster and yet she might al- most have been 8 thousand miles away. Everything seemed so diff ferent. All of the people about her were strangers. How was she going to like this new life? How would these strangers like her? Would she be happy here?
 What, Janet wondered, was hap piness, really? Something in your own heart instead of what went on around you she thought. Something you couldn't see or explain but could only feel. But happiness was not what Janet was looking for. She had put that behind her. All that she wanted now was to forget. The most impossible thing in the world it seemed to achieve-for- getting.
 After a while Janet decided 1t was time to dress. She arose and put on fresh underclothes. What dress should she wear? The .maid had said something about "dress- ing for dinner" Did that mean she was supposed to wear a for mai dinner dress? She didn't own one. She could put on the blue crepe from last summer.
 Janet loked at it and then shook her head. She took down the black silk that was her new est office dress. It had been fresh- ly cleaned and there was a touch of lace at the throat that was flat tering. She had just slipped the was a knock at the door.
 Janet said, Just 8 minute!" and then opened the door. It was Mrs Curtis who stood outside.
 I'm so glad you're here" she exclaimed. "Is everything all right, my dear? Sorry couldn't be here when you came. I told Lucy to See that you had everything you want ed."
 Mrs Curtis was dressed in heavy brown satin and wore a small brown straw hat. The clasp that held the neckline of her dress con- tained half dozen sparkling stones and two diamonds gleamed from a ring on her finger. Yet Mrs Curtis, in this glittering array looked no more imposing than the first time Janet had seen her.
 Everything was quite all right, Janet assured her. She remembered MT Hamilton's message and re- peated 1t.
 "Poor Bruce-he does work so hard" the older woman lamented. And then, By the way, there will only be you and I for dinner this evening. No need to dress. Well, I'll leave you now"
 At dinner an hour later Janet