The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02

neQ py Jane and beWildered by her. l Columbia summer school was baf- No, she didn't want a course of ChauceP or any other early Eng fish literature. No more did she want Romance languages. Or Greek history. Or renaissance art. Or pedagogy of any variety.
 One of the secretaries, more ob- servant than the other, had seen the tight nerves, the despairing eagerness behind Jane's apparent aimlessness and took her aside. | Look here," she said kindly, "why do you bother with this sort of thing? It's mostly for teachers, you Know. You seem to he, l don't know exactly why, but you do seem to me to be looking for | something quite practical, outside | the field of education. Why don't you take @ course in one of these high-grade secretarial schools and get into some buslness-publishing or advertising, maybe? My sister went to one and she's done awfully well, got a position as secretary to the editor of a big magazine and worked herself onto the staff. I'll give you a couple of addresses"
 It was the first line of direction Jane had found and she probably would not have followed 1t but one of the schools was near her hotel. She passed 1t as she went back there and after a moments hesita- ton returned and entered. It was a competent place with more than suggestion of swagger. At once Jane felt herself at ease. She was understood. She caught their pos abilities. She liked the very smart frock and makeup, the detached capability of the director, Miss Jardine. In no time at all she was enrolled for as much work as she could induce them to heap upon her. You simply can't do all these things at once," Miss Jardine told her, breaking through her cool ele- gance for a human moment.
 "Oh, yes I can. must" Jane replied and was gratifled by the impression she was making.
 That night she wrote two letters. One was to her aunt, an answer to the letters and telegrams which poor Miss Rosa had been heaping on her ever since her arrival and which Jane, so far, had not mo- ticed. You needn't worry about me-" wrote Jane. q am perfectly all right. I've settled everything. I went up to the University but they were lot of old dodos and all they could offer were deadly dull courses, mostly a sort of re- hash of the Venerable Bede and the Domsday Book and other anti quated out-of-date stuff, nothing that interested me at all. So I de- termined to take a course in one of the modern secretarial schools and l am starting tomorrow. Don't get the idea that it's nothing but short hand and typewriting. It's quite different-the sort of work that leads at once to positions in publishing houses or big advertis- ing agencies. I wish you'd send me everything of mine that I didn't bring along-my books and my pill lows and pictures and the lacquer box on the table in my room and my large mirror"
 She had written that last to make clearer to her aunt-and to herself-that she was done with Marburg and was never going back to it.
 But over the second letter she hestatcd. Ever since that morn ing in the chapel she had been be- set with the wish to revenge her self on Amy, spoil her happiness if she could. The letter, ready at last, after many crossings out and changes, was far from consistent but Jane could do no more with 1t. She copied it in a spontaneous, dashing hand.
 My dear Amy: I've been sur prised not to hear from you since left. It seemed to me that the least you owed me was an explana- ton if you didn't feel quite up to an apology. But I can see how diff ficult it would be for you to offer either. Really. Amy. l have been your friend so long and thought I knew you so well, but never in the world could have suspected you of doing what you have done to me.
 T want to tell you again that in spite of everything he may say. Howard Jackson literally pursued me with his attentions and made love to me ardently. Also he cer- tainly did ask me to marry him. l in his honor and sincerity and 1 know him so well that still be- lieve in them and am still absO- lutely certain that he cares for me and you have deliberately stepped in to drive us apart. Well. you have succeeded. You have taken away from me the only man I could ever care fora man who really loved me until you came be- tween us. Fortunately I am strong enough to go on without you. with out either of you. But the scar of this wound will have inflicted will always remain"
 To Miss Rosa. Jane's letter indi- cated that Jane was herself again ! and not utterly broken under the fiasco of her engagement.
 For Amy there was no such com fort. When she saw Jane's letter she did not want to open 1t. and | the actual reading overwhelmed her. She couldn't show it to How ard, but she did take it to her mother.
 "Of course 1t isn't true that How | ard asked her to marry him. Moth er," she said, "but Jane by this time believes it's true. You know
 "It's a very cruel letter. II sounds a little like East Lynne. Are you going 10 write to herT'
 "I don't know, but 1 believe 1 shaiL shs's s~ alone. Do you