| Show John Jolin and Marjorie Lunch Together Together And Discuss Janet Reed Telegram Serial Love Thumbs a Ride I from New York to In IndIAnapolis In- In Ind Sod In search of a II job I Jane Reed starved bait s unemployed t factory girl stows away In a car driven I by John Patterson a s. large Juge handsome blond fellow He Be hears beers her ber gasp when the she discovers she forgot her purse drives to a tourist camp and orders the unknown stowaway out of ot his hill car John Joh bUnts believes the she is Is ts Gretchen Reed missing millionaires millionaire's daughter While John is III getting instructions from Mr Reed to watch the girl the real disguised as u the camp chambermaid cham chain asks Janet to Impersonate her while she decides her tate Sate in a II convent Resuming Resuming- the motor trip i John suggests his aunt in Indianapolis Indian Indian- spoils apolis needs a social secretary and be believes be- be liens Janet can handle th position To 10 avoid colliding headon beadon with a truck John drives too close dose to the roadside and the car overturns John and nd Janet are not Injured but accept the Invitation invitation Invitation tion of cC Tom Torn and sad Molly MoUy Benson a middle-aged middle couple passing by to rest at the Benson home Saying g goodnight good goodnight night to Janet John kisses her for Zor the y first time The following morning the couple continue the trip anc and arrive at lot atthe atthe the home of ci Johns John's Aunt Jenny whom Janet meets as well welt as u Marjorie Handel Han Han- del Johns John's blond girl friend CHAPTER ELEVEN At his end of the telephone Mr Reed listened to John Patterson You say you have made up your yourt t mind that the girl with you isn't r S Gretchen after all Im sorry I was convinced she I was at first but Ive I've changed my J mind Mr R Reed ed was sas not very pleasant tt about it This is a fine line time to say you youe e changed hanged your mind I called the detectives off off even even the one who vho followed you at first You had a detective following me met Certainly As a matter of fact he went ent ahead of you I told him j 1 vere were on the way to Indian Indian- apolis He lie certainly Isn't very much perturbed in hi his mind about the Iden identity of the girl with you even It you are Ive I've talked with him several everal times over the telephone He lie Ie says saS there Isn't any doubt the doubt the girl Is my ray daughter You may be right Mr Reed John admitted I 1 hav haven't ent asked her point-blank point whether or not she is your daughter but Ive I've given her plenty of opportunity to explain her real identity This girl tells a long story about working In a factory in New York a n dress shop and she tells the story very ery ery convincingly con She's a perfectly charming girl and I 1 accepted the story she told as the truth Charming Girl I My Gretchen Is 15 a perfectly I charming girl Mr Patterson Mr Reeds Reed's big voice boomed And I imagine lne she can spin just as convincing con con- a a yarn yam arn as anyone else l if she wants to hide her Identity I dont don't think you yott ou need worry very much about it It just keep a dose close watch vatch over herSee herSee her See that nothing happens happe s to her She's my Gretchen all right o othe or orthe the smartest detective Ive I've ever aver been able to hire Is all wet Have it your own way John said giving up the argument Mis Marjorie Handel is here to see you a private secretary said coming into his office quietly Tell her to come in Marjorie was looking her very prettiest when she stepped into John Pattersons Patterson's office You see I arrive about lunch time I have method In my madness Im glad you came I 1 intended to go out with Johnson for lunch and then I was detained by a long I distance call It seems plenty good to be home Marjorie and to see you again I thought you'd forgotten me Marjorie pouted One telegram and a box of flowers all the two w weeks you were gone Not even one single letter I 1 had a busy two weeks Insurance Insurance Insurance I ance conventions are getting to be plenty strenuous us affairs these days They kept us going all day and half the night To say nothing of your duties toward the charming woman wom- wom young joung woman worn wom an you met Marjorie was in high good humor She spoke almost cordially cordially cor cor- of ot Janet She is charming Isn't she she If ll you like them little and haired curly-haired and vivacious yes es But I thought you OU liked tall girls John I do do Marjorie The admiring look John gave the girl made her heart beat with triumph Come on now Remember Im I'm Ima a n working man I cant can't take all day for lunch They had a gay time over their lunch and If there had been any shadow o of restraint between them because of Janet that restraint disappeared Talked Freely V They even talked of the girl free I quite freely V of Your Aunt Jenny Is quite taken with Janet John She told methis me me- methis this morning she means to hire her I think that's fine line What is she to do to be Aunt Jennys Jenny's social secretary When I left they were getting quite enthusiastic about It It When did you come Into town tOWI Marjorie I hadn't expected you to be here quite so soon I think I would have ha hurried more to get home home- If It Id I'd known ln you jou OU were comIng corning com corn ing to Indianapolis I came for some shopping Then too maybe I wanted Jo o see you John Looking into Marjories Marjorie's lovely e eyes es John almost forgot for the moment the haunting girlish face lace that had been with him waking and sleeping for hours now the now the face of Janet Reed Marjorie was right when she said that Aunt Jenny was having havinga a glorius at time getting acquainted V th with her new social secretary f r But if rm Tm going to be your your SO so social cial Janet secretary tary said youil have to let me get started to work Im I'm afraid youre you're going to spoil me mt the way you Ou wait walt on me and make me lie down most of the time Urne In two or three days will wili be plenty of time to start Aunt Jen- Jen nv Dv if ud d You know honey youre you're simply going to be a raving beauty when you OU get gel some color in your face and your jour our cheeks plump out outa a little UlUe I guess I am ant pretty thin J Janet et said ruefully I really hadn't noticed noticed noticed no no- how thin I was getting and how old I look How old you look Me eye Aunt Jenny laughed t When youre you're as old as aI I am you youcan youcan youcan can talk about getting getling 7 old ld child Lets Let's see just how old are yo you Eighteen GU Cues s Al AUnt nt Jenny Then not a day a-day day over 19 Make it 20 Janet laughed I Iwas Iwas 1 was 20 my last birthday Well you dont don't look it child And wherever did you get that gorgeous mop of red brown hair My mother h had d real red hair Janet said I dont don't remember my mother I was j just st a little girl when she died You p poor o 0 r darling So you haven't any mother Has Stepmother I 1 have a stepmother Janet said and the grim line of her pretty lips told Au Aunt Je Jenny ny that the girl did not carea carca carea great deal for her stepmother Well we wont won't think about that now Aunt Jenny hurried to change the conversation I 1 think Im I'm In plenty of luck With a pretty girl like you being my secretary Ill I'll be plenty lar As soon as you get to feeling better Ill I'll buy you some pretty clothes Now now then when Janet remonstrated Dont let your our pride get ahead of you You Youcan Youcan Youcan can buy your our own pretty clothes Ill I'll just give you an advance in w wages s. s J You iou wont won't need to do that Janet told her new friend I have havea a few things with me and I have some m money I ney-I ney I can get more with that A Oh Oh you have hare you some money Aunt Jenny was surprised I understood understood understood un un- un- un you w were well e r e well just well just about broke Weren't you hItchhIking hitchhiking hitchhiking hitch hitch- hiking when John overtook y you uZ Well not exactly hitchhiking Janet was glad to change the subject subject subject sub sub- I i had been hitchhiking hitchhiking hitchhiking hitch hitch- hiking all day and I was sitting down on a b bench ch in a little park along the roadside w when en I saw hiscar his hiscar hiscar car put In at station I just sven over er to it when he was in dinner I curled up on the floor in n front of the back backseat backseat backseat seat and went wentlo vento o sleep All AU I knew was that his cat car car was as pointed west I was vas determined to catch a ride in a car going west westI r I think that's very romantic Aunt Jenny gushed sounds It almost the way I met metr metr my r P Peter r Id I'd been to the Uie county tam lair ana to walk home My fOIl folks ved on a farm not more thad than mile from town and andI I Intended Just JUt to walk out in time timeto to help dad t Uk the cows Pretty retty Tired But I was pretty tired and Iwas Iwas I Iwas was bobbling hobbling along slow on my new pair of shoes when a buggy pulled up beside me and the driver er said Haven't I met you some place before be bt fore toneD foret I 1 turned around and laughed right up at him Yes Y sir you were an usher at the Chautauqua this summer weren't you ou I saw you there two or three times And I saw you OU too but I did not get up my nerve to talk to you ou Why dont don't you ou jut JUtt hop right Into this hiI buggy here and let me take you Ou home We can get acquainted acquainted ac ac- ac- ac on the way there I suppose you'd can call that Itch hitch hiking these days Aunt Jenny laughed merrily Well Vell you know my dear that was the beginning of a friendship that led up to marriage Peter Petera a and d I were married before the year was over and we lived together a qu quarter iter of a century before he died Poor Peter he had to die just six months month to the date before his first oil well came in and made made- me a rich woman A rich woman without t chick nor child to care whether I 1 live Ue or die Your nephew cares whether you OU live or die Janet told the older woman seriously During our ride here he spoke of you ou often He says saS you jou are a perfectly grand person Hes a wonderful boy Aunt Aun Jenny said Of course he Isn't Isn my real nephew you ou understand Peter was his uncle Im I'm just his aunt by marriage but I love him almost as m much ch as If hed he'd been my myown myown myown own son He Ue used to come down to Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa and visit Peter and me when we lived on the ranch If I dont don't change my mind Im I'm going to leave leav my money to John but Id I'd rathe hed he'd marry many a girl like you th tha than n the girl he seems to be making maJcIn 1 up to To b be continued Wednesday The Register and Tribune Syndicate |
