| Show tJ I 1 s n WOMEN i lute Life John brUe believes bellem his hll stowaway Is 11 Reed millionaires millionaire's daughter daughter I John telephones Reeds Reed father father and the millionaire ask UD asks John ohn Ito to to come como to his home at et once From Tram Johns John's description of Janet Mr Jr Reed ce decides decide she be is hi his hll runaway daughter He lie tell teU John It would strata strain matters mattera were wro he to go 10 to Gretchen and ask ta John to keep anteye an Ire eye o on the girl girland land and report to him him regarding ing a her wel- wel J rs see fare r Meanwhile disguised as u a camp chambermaid reveals reveal her ber Identity to Janet Jan and hires the girt girl to impersonate her while she Ibe decides her future future In a convent John returns I to the tb tourist camp and the two young fauna persons resume the toe tripI trip t e I CHAPTER SEVEN t The V nervous tension eased as ast t they to o the e open road i N A HA A pretty late start Janet C It Is nearly noon but with luck twe we can cnn get to our destination by midnight Its It's barely miles away C Our destination The vagueness vague vague- ness of it was a thrill to Janet Janett t Chicago or Indianapolis Take your choice John chuckled gulding guld- guld ing ine the car expertly My mother lives In Chicago Chicago my my aunt in In In- Where do you C My are in Indian- Indian But of course Im I'm home ia a good share of the time John had almost forgotten that the he carried the heiress of a millionaire mil mil- as his passenger He was thinking of Janet just as a lovely cirl sIrl he had picked up the night before I 1 think I 1 could get work for you ou with my aunt She's really reany a rather stupendous person and she's always needing help What What kind of help All the way from cooks to second sec see second ond maids personal maids and I II Ii I i understand she's trying a social secretary right now I wouldn't know much about 1 being beng a secretary Janet took off I her hat pushed back her thick 1 1 luxurious hair and settled back for tor real comfort but I can cook I can broil a wicked steak and Marie thinks Im I'm a good salad maker Marie Yes Marie Is the girl I room with Remember I told you ou about her this morning about her identity The day was wonderful the open road invited and here was a merry laughing companion to share the light-hearted light hours with him Tell Ten me more about the Happy Hostess There Isn't much more to tell Janet said I 1 went to Work at 8 o'clock every morning and we closed shop at 5 We did not operate under under the the theN N R A A. A the social security or ot anything anything anything any any- thing else that I know of The whole idea was to sew up as many Happy Hostess dresses as we possibly possibly pos pos- sibly could in the hours we had When I tell you the majority of those dresses retail for and some of them for you can understand understand understand un un- that the girls who operate operate operate op op- erate the power machines do not receive a great deal dea I can understand that Janet How long did you work there John took time to steal a a serious seri Serl serious ous glance at this girl The conversation conversation conversation con con- with her seemed quite qute unreal when she talked in su such a convincing fashion He put out of his mind the thesus that she couldn't possibly be telling the truth and that she was w was s certainly drawing largely upon her imagination to get the details f t the operation of the factory and d dand Oh I was there months a and months years I guess guess mayb maybe a hundred years years years-It it seems long looking back i f But Im I'm all through now Ii Im I'm M going to be your aunts aunt's cook p or pr r s social cial secretary or something if you'll get me the job You weren't joking about that were you No I wasn't joking They had dinner at a splendid inn along the roadside The place reminded Janet of the Motel inn Could it have been just a bare 24 hours since she sat on the bench benchin in the park wriggling her feet out of her pumps to rest them Then she had watched the blinking blinking blink bUnk ing lights of the Motel Inn across the road from her and finally seen the car going west come to a standstill at the oil station That was the beginning of her exciting adventure Just 24 hours and all these amazing In tag ing things had happened to her Her heart felt very light John |
