The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-06
SYNOPSIS

when HOWARD JACKSON,
 young geology professor, comes
 10 Marburg JANE TERRY, the
 pretfIest girl in town, determines
 to win his heart. Howard, how.
 ever, falls in love with AMY
 LOWE, Jane's best friend. Jane,
 angered, tries to force Howard
 into an engagement and, when
 this fails, leaves for New York.
 declaring she will never return.
 Amy and Howard set the date
 of their wedding i'm June.
 In New York Jane enrolls in a
 business school and later be.
 comes secretary to the president
 of the Handel Real Estate Com-
 pany. She meets ROGER THORPE, head of the rental de-
 partment.
 CHAPTER x
 Nov there's a smart chap" said Handel after Roger Thorpe had left them. You heard him-some- thing queer comes up and he goes right out and takes hold himself doesn't leave it to his assistants. He might have sent one of the boys who'd have balled it all up and got us lot of bad publicity"
 Jane nodded gravely. This place suited her exactly. As soon as Mir Handel had finished the grist of letters she went to her desk and looked it through. Good SUD- plies, plenty of them, an almost new machine, a comfortable chair, the desk itself large and expensive mot of course to be compared to MT Kandeps magnificent walnut and plate glass bulwark, but a sort of young brother to it.
 There was grass cloth on the walls very much finer than that in Miss Jardine's apartment and the rugs were thick and colorful. Easy chairs, presumably for wealthy clients. were upholstered in dull red leather. Framed photographs and architects drawings of Handel properties were hung here and there, and over the fireplace. I'm agine a real fireplace!" thought Jane, with a real coal fire!" There was a group of prints of old New York. Draw curtains of raw silk dyed red to match the chairs heightened the warmth of the place.
 Jane's dark slimmness, her black
  the picture and she knew it as a cat knows it's beauty against satin cushion. But she wasted no time on effect. She was too intent on getting the letters typed and making them look smart. When she had done couple she brought them to MT Handel. DO you like that style?" she asked. Would you prefer less margin, or double space through out?' They look all right to me- said MT Handel. Jane was disap- pointed She had hoped for more approval. The truth was that Mir Handel had begun to re-value his precipitancy. The girl might be ef- ficient, but she was much too young and too pretty, and she had out smarteded him on salary. Likely, too, Mrs Handel wouldn't be pleas ed when she saw Jane. While Jane typed on swiftly. MT Handel made up his mind that at the first req sonable excuse he'd ease her out, but even so he admitted that he did like the way she took hold, without any fuss or affectation. "She acts like business, but she sure doesn't look it," he thought. "Oh. well. we'll see. I'll know a lot more about her at the end of week."
 At the end of the week MT Handel had forgotten his inten- tion to ease Jane out. Three things had proved her value to him, her capacity for work, her deliberate and delicate brow beating of a con- tractor who had come to the Kan del office intent on having a row with the head of the firm (Mr Kan det had listened to this from his secret sanctum) and finally, but least important, the verdict of Mrs Handel, who one day clanked her diamond bracelets into the place, looked Jane, over from her to feet, talked with her few minutes ana told her husband later. That girls all right. She's got class"
 Jane had not the slightest idea that she was under observa- tion. or that there was any qucs- tion of her permanence. The place suited her and that had set tied 1t in her own mind. It was all the better to have so much to learn. She couldn't agonize over Amy and Howard Jackson, when the mysteries of contracts, leases and mortgages. plot-books and Appraisals and building code were waiting to be absorbed. She was secretly surprised by her ignor- ance, 1t seemed odd that such q large field of important subjects should somehow have been en- tirely omitted from her vision. At times she almost doubted her ability to ever know it all, but these doubts were not serious. She studied much harder than sho had studied at the school. and learned one invaluable thing -- how and where to look for infor- nation when she needed it. This acquired, she began to realize that she couldn't possibly know everything about the business by study alone. She would need time and much experience, and even then there might be a few items left to be attained. The long sustained effort began to wear down her vitality. It was spring and she was tired and restless. She wanted a change but couldn't de- fine the kind, hadn't the energy to beek 1t.
 \ In the Handel offices 1t was conceded from her first appear Rnce that the boss's new secretary