The Coolidge examiner., 1935-01-11


the homegoing crowds was
- suddenly filled with expec-
fancy.
II was not quite sensible to be so
stirred By the mental relterance OF
a certain phrase.
Not a spoken one caught In the
conversations OF the street
Not one from business slogans
traced In electric signs.
Merely a small group OF words
that Just flashed across her ordinary
thinking.
oddly and like fash. something
within her was saying right in the
middle OF her arithmetic
Just as she turned the corner"
As she walked cautiously through
the wet streets trying TO avoid
spattering her stockings. this new
phrase kept coming between every
thing she was thinking until. with
a certain quality Of impatience. she
paused mentally TO charge back at
the Inner voice
And what happened II she did
turn the cornerT"
Her mind was an Instant blank.
This annoyed her into further
challenging
Who turned the corner. and
what for-and all the rest--so on
Oh"
But there was seemingly n help
lessness within her FOR further sug.
gesied adventure.
Her feet growing hot and tired IN
rubbers. she stopped TO have coffee
az a small shop. She opened her
evening newspaper and at once In
the daily verse. there leaped TO
greet her eyes:
You never know what's waiting
just around the bend
Youll maybe ind a dollar or a
brand new friend"
Lois knew that the little lost
phrase had significance and solu-
tlon.
Just as you turned the corner you
found something.
She almost sparkied as she
stepped again into the night
Rain still came In steady showers
bui she was not hungry or tired
now SO Why 90 homer
She turned 20 the nearest talkIe.
and aid not realize that she was
really turning a corner
Her parasol tangled instantly with
another and when she peered un.
der and around 20 see what she was
doing. there was Jerry Karn from
whom she took dictatlon every day
of her mfe.
He was getting ready a courtly
apology. having seen only the real
~ lovely. tapering feet and slender
ankles that belonged 10 Lois
AZ that moment the phrase re-
turned 10 her mind. fairly singing 20
her-"Just as she turned the cor.
ner-"
II persisted with lifting infection.
giving her honest eyes. peering be-
meath her green parasol under the
rim o. her small green hat, a
charming and waiting excitement
Jerrys words we're heady with
Well. OF all luck"
Lois smiled bewilderingly.
IL WIS all too wonderful.
Jerrg with eyes thar had never
particularly lighted for her. smiling
as II they bad date and had met
a little sooner to his big delight.
Going somewhere?" be asked
foollshly.
NO place In particular. Just
thought | might get out OF the rain
In the Palace"
Come on. he said. taking charge
OF her.
Desperately proud OF his tall
righ,ness. OF herself. she waited TO
be claimed after be bought the
tickets.
lie huddled low in the seat 10
look directly into her eyes, hunch-
Ing one shoulder lower for the
smallness of her. saying:
"DO you know I've alwuys want
ed to talk to you"
She listened 10 the inner voice
prodding 10 breathlessness-and be-
lIeyed him.
Well, this was what happened
when at last the phrase was com
plete-just as you turned the corner
you found yourself running into
Jerry this gorgeous way and his
eyes fairly asking where'd you keep
yourself up till now.
No other man IN the world could
teach any girl how 10 talk to Jerry
Lois could only smile. thinking
many things back OF her answering
eyes saying oh yes-and | know
and-did you really?
And they whispered because the
ushers were vigilant for silence.
Afterward she recaptured every
thing he had said. counting the
words like Jewels, touching them