| Show Telegram Serial Love Lave Thumbs a Ric Ride Janet Starts an Exciting 4 g Adventure Today BRUNET JANET REED a poor unemployed factory girl is hitchhiking hitchhiking hitch hitch- hiking from New York where the she lived with a friend Marie to In Indianapolis In- In In search of ot a job While resting on a bench near a tillIng filling station a large handsome blond man JOHN PATTERSON driving an expensive car stops for tor service When he goes Into the Motel Inn for tor din din- ner Janet notices the car has hu In Indiana Indiana In In- diana dlana license plates She decides to stowaway on the floor noor behind the front seat After riding about 20 miles Janet gasps audibly when she remembers she left her purse containing containing containing con con- 12 everything she me has In Inthe Inthe inthe the world on the bench Thinking fast taste John drives to the nearest cabin cabIn cabIn cab- cab In camp rents a cabin and orders orders' the stowaway to get out of or the car Assured that Janet Is 15 merely a stowaway stowaway stow tow away and harmless John decides to turn the girl over to the Travelers Travelers' Aid Ald She locks the door to her room and retires for tor the night Reading a newspaper story showing a pretty girls girl's picture captioned Wilful Heiress Heiress Heir Heir- ess Defies Her Millionaire Father Determines to Live the Simple Life Lite John believes his stowaway Is Gretchen Oret- Oret chen Reed millionaires millionaire's daughter John telephones Gretchen Reeds Reed's father tather and the millionaire asks John to come to his home at once From Prom Johns John's description of Janet Mr Reed decides she Is his runaway daughter Gretchen He lie tells John Is would strain matters mattere were he to go to Gretchen and asks John to keep an eye on the girl and report to him regarding her welfare Meanwhile Gretchen disguised as a camp chambermaid chambermaid cham cham- reveals her Identity to Janet and hires the girl to Impersonate her while she decides her future In Ina Ina ina a convent CHAPTER SIX Keep me going Why Ill I'll feel like a millionaire I IThen Then you agree Yes I agree Have you got any clothes along with you Gretchen asked A few yes Why Janet opened the suitcase that was standing on a chair by the foot of her bed What do you want Lets exchange I have a suitcase suitcase suitcase suit suit- case too I found it in one of the servants servant's closets but I 1 didn't have any very plain clothes to go into it although I 1 packed the very oldest I 1 had You'd better take my suitcase and my type type- writer Ill I'll take yours I dont don't think I ough to take your typewriter My brother might question where I 1 got it Then buy yourself a typewriter er Gretchen suggested Ill send along some some som extra money when you get located some place But dont don't locate yourself too permanently in any anyone one place Dad might drop in to see you you know and that would be a pretty kettle of t fish With a month I 1 can travel all over over the world Janet agreed And dont don't worry about me If you youcan youcan youcan can write reasonable letters I 1 can write reasonable letters too Ill I'll keep your father pacified Hell He'll think his darling daughter is learning learning learning learn learn- ing to be very sensible And probably I 1 will be learnIng learning learning learn learn- ing to be sensible Gretchen philosophized When I 1 get away from everything so I wont won't see anyone but the sisters Ill I'll probably probably probably ably be lonely Several Months I spent several months with the sisters when my father was in Europe one time When I go back there and have a chance to think It all an allover over I 1 may decide that Im I'm not riot as Interested in Jim as I thought I 1 was Maybe Ill I'll decide that life Is worth living without Jim Maybe you will and maybe you wont won't Janet said Its all very queer to me why you'd want torun to torun torun run away from a splendid home and a fine dad even If he is a millionaire Maybe so Maybe Ill I'll feel that way about things too when I have a chance to think it over Why couldn't you accomplish the very same thing simply by telling telling telling tell tell- ing your father frankly that you want to go up to the convent for fora a few w weeks weeks just Just ks-Just Just to rest and be quiet I HI told you before You Just dont don't know my father Gretchen argued Hed be Just as anxious as a little wet hen Hed be he sure lure I 1 wanted to take the veil or something like that No truly truy this Is the only way I got a job here In the tourist camp because I 1 though rd Id be pretty well unnoticed here and he here and I have been She was the spectacles spectacles spec spec- and combing back her hair to so that every riotous curl was smoothed out of it lt Not a single pe person on has troubled troubled troubled trou trou- bled to look at me the second I time I was watching until someone someone some some- one came along some along some tourist I could trust trust trust-to to mall mail the letters And then of a sudden you came And that makes It ft even better bei because be be- because cause you OU look Jook exactly like me me i 1 I dont don't see why It makes It bet bet- ter Janet expostulated For my part it really makes it worse No it makes it better Ill I'll tell you why Suppose one of Dads Dad's detectives should look you up you up-you you answer my description fairly well dont don't you Yes Well then then then- His suspicions are I diverted by you You'll take whatever whatever what what- ever heat the detectives have t to give That's why Ill I'll pay you the And in the meantime Ill I'll have absolute rest and quiet Noone No Noone Noone one will know where I 1 am am Its a bargain The two girls shook hands Ill gp on with the cabin cleaning cleanIng cleanIng clean- clean Ing now The cabin I sleep II In is Just the second door from here Gretchen explained Exchange Contents In a few minutes Ill I'll come around on the south side from the office and bring you my suitcase suit suit- case Well We'll exchange the contents as quickly as we can and no one will be the wiser Ill I'll wait walt here three or four days until Im I'm absolutely absolutely absolutely certain Dads Dad's got your first letter mailed from Chicago or Indianapolis or some other middle middle middle mid mid- dle western place Then Ill I'll goto go goto goto to the convent And will you write to me Janet asked Yes any time you want me to But Id I'd rather not hear from anyone not even you very often There are a lot of things I want to think over There are a lot of things I want to be sure about Jim Yes Jim Jims Jim's got another year or two in college I thought you said he was a gardener He is I 1 found out about his college course from a friend of his JIm Jim didn't tell me Hes He's working working working work work- ing his way through the state agricultural agricultural agricultural ag ag- school Hes He's just got the job with Dad for the summer sum sum- mer I understand Maybe Ill I'll come out of the convent convent convent con con- vent ready to go to the state university university university uni uni- myself this fall faU If It Jim met me as another girl not girl not as the daughter of his millionaire employer employ employ- er I er-I I think he might love me me Loves queer I 1 guess Gretchen Gretch Gretch- en Janet said soberly Ive never been In love Wait Walt until you are Janet Life will have a new meaning You'll know what its it's all aU about and then again you wont won't know what anything anything anything any any- thing is about But I 1 mustn't keep on talking Ive I've got more linen to distribute e and weve we've got to get the things in these two suitcases changed Yes My brother said hed he'd beback be beback beback back in a short time He mustn't find us here together You wont won't tell him about me I Not a word l If you dont don't want me to Janet agreed Janet breathed a sigh of relief when the other girl took away the suitcase containing the clothes for tor which she had just exchanged her own Grand Adventure This certainly looked like the beginning of a grand adventure but Janet was Janet was not eager for John Patterson to know about It That stern stem young man man would be bemore bemore bemore more stern than ever I If he knew about this madcap adventure He drove an elegant car he had hada a splendid job and he had the self self- assurance of a man who has never worried particularly about any any- thing thing certainly certainly not about where his next meal was to o come from Yes John Patterson would find It hard to understand Janet's willingness willingness willingness wil wil- to accept the responsibility responsibility of this other girl He would find it hard to understand understand understand under under- stand the actions of any pe penniless girl Janet decided She wondered whether she actually actually actually ac ac- liked or disliked this queer young man who had become her host in such a stirring series of events She almost decided that she didn't like him This thought was strong upon her when John Patterson re re- re- re turned She had caught a glimpse of his affable disposition when they had breakfasted together that morning There had been a of friendliness and companionship between between between be be- tween the two of them But that was all gone now He was stern tern as he had been the night before when he found the frightened girl in his car can canI I HI have to get started he said the moment he came In the cabin door He did not even bother to notice that the beds were made the cabin j tc ea 4 rO Pate I |
