Show Leave It to J Cupid By LEETE STONE Or OC Copyright BETTY DETTY LEE LED found the Public Notices Notices No- No J tices In the paper the Sunday sho was eighteen Hers was vas a n magazine cover magazine magazine- cover profile and she was wag the daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter of ot strict parents Their home was In a n Hudson river ham hamlet ham ham- hamlet let let All week she typed letters In her fathers father's real estate office she sho revelled In the world of ot her New dreams New York mirrored York mirrored for her eager enger supple mind by the Sunday paper Petty Betty retrieved the lie scattered sec see sections sections dons of the tho paper pap r after her father had flung Hung It on the floor door four ways from his Morris chair sorted It Into sectional sequence and carried It to toa toa Q a silent leafy dell In the woods nearby Sparkling eyes rejoiced wIth Peachy J Flagg of Borough of Man Man- Manhattan Manhattan hattan whose address was wanted by Glasgow solicitors Waiting at nt the lawyers lawyer's office surely was n a good good- sized good sized golden plum for Preachy leachy I from fromn froma n a renegade uncle perhaps whose fam fame family family ily had hall burned burnell his picture when he skipped with the church funds and lost himself In the diamond fields of Keenly Imaginative Petty Deity never missed ed these public notices They were her first dramas She built a 1 astory story round each one complete with cast of characters fitting sequence and a climax sad or glad at the die die- dic turn lam of her mood Ever E Er r since reading the story ot of Dorothy Blame describing how v Yates Chandler famous young Illustrator ha had found her pale and hungry crouch crouch- crouching crouching ing on a subway bench and lifted her herto herto herto to such fame as a model that her face became a familiar feature of every newsstand ne and library table in the theland ever land ever since then Betty Detty had reo re- resolved re resolved sol solved ell to go 10 to New York and become on an Illustrators Illustrator's model And If pos pos pos- possible possible sible Yates Chandlers Chandler's model It would be so much more Inspiring than typewriting How to do this without estranging her parents They definitely disapproved disapprove disapproved prove proved of Bettys Betty's dream and there had been many a family scene over It An Idea popped Into her head from froma fromn n a bright blue sky Why not write him frankly and simply and explain her dream Send him one of her high school graduation pictures which every one admired I Finally ask him to to have have n a heart to talk with dad when dad went to New York ne next t tithe time Both Doth letter and photograph were posted to the Ch Chandler studio address For a n week Betty tremulously antic antici anticipated a n reply But no response IA I IA A month after her disappointment Betty Detty and her friend Miriam were motoring In Miriam's small roadster one Sunday afternoon The lacing or of orlow low hills that fringed the tiny valleytown valley talley valleytown town on the river was the color of a gorgeous carpet of Bagdad for au- au autumn autumn au autumn was early The girls were nearing a n sharp harp dan dan- dangerous dangerous gerou downgrade curve cune It had been sprinkling for ten minutes and the therond therond road rond was ripe for skidding Miriam l driving approached the splay of the curve carefully her rIght side wheels In the gravel shoulder of the road Suddenly the rear end eDlI of n a along long roadster was disclosed ell Just ahead Its nose jammed Into an Immense pine pinetree pinetree pinetree tree that towered majestically aloof aloot from Its nel neighbors on the exact edge of the highway Miriam 1 shoved shored both brat brakes es Into tight grip knowing that the shoulder of the road would prevent skidding and conked blinked olT otT her hor gas Their little car stopped in thirty feet almost touching the lie rear of the big bi rna roadster ster which was skewed out at ot an angle well Into the lie roadway Quite evidently a n narrow turn sud sud- sudden sudden den braking and a n swift skid skill with the pine pille tree trec for a n bumper was the answer to this this accident Hello there I A somewhat unsteady un- un un unsteady steady voice oie reached the girls as ns they hurried from their car They saw IJ a atall ta tall II well dressed man rising rJ rather t her shakily from the low underbrush under rush behind be behind be- be hind the lie big bl pine I cull hunt stupid driving dont don't you lie Ile smiled and nfl CHIne to them Chucked me right over o the windshield wind windshield shield Wonder If It you could squeeze me tie in with you und and take luke me meto meto meto to th the n nearest garage e Bettys Betty's etts s 's heart almost stopped It sent the blond thrilling through h iier hOlly body InI In 11 ii wild enthusiastic lastic rush ruh This fine face filco she shie recognized In the flee failing light belonged ed to Yates Yules ler hand her ler As they started oft off in the little car the lie artist regarded Betty netty with clos close ilin ent 1111 ent I S seen l n you 1111 somewhere I sent you ou my picture six week weeks ago ago Im I'm Betty Lee of Grunger Petty simply hilt luck hick I Tales Chandler pol- pol poI th Rely ery beamed Lets bow to the I he great god gal go I of Coincidence 1 I 1 1 I was on my way to III call all on ml you OU and your moth moth- mother mother er and father fattier tills thus when I inel nel the thc lie pine IIII tree so forcibly I could see floe your picture that lint you OU were an unusual type and ami I want on fur for a anew anew anew new serIfs series of und lint sure sincerity won Bettys Betty's parents to happy h se- se ac acquiescence quiescence In her dream before supper sup mp supper per was over o Later the Hie artist and nud his now new model strolled together ether down the quaint Lovers Lover's Lane the blond biond lend head of the moonlit moon ninon ill III river er 1101 n companionship Col was rl that t soon SOOIl called railed fur for the Ilic loving 10 care 6 are CupId |