Show no ja lut but I 1 thanksgiving byh BH LOUIS janet thorn silt sat in the couch hammock on the shadeo shaded banal and looked out across a purple blue sea to somo omit far invisible shore somewhere re beyond that misty fi lio orizon lay hy home not that home hoino meant very ury much to janet since the death of her only relative an aunt cut but somehow anro around 1 und thanks giving tene a stranger in a strange land Is likely to be homesick and tills this beautiful hawaii with all its glories still had no adequate substitute to offer for the cold wintry skies akles find and bleak hanestad nested ha landscape for the cranberry sauce ond and aroma of roasting turkey with NOW which the national al holiday Is associated therefore janet sighed and founds found herself wi wishing that jim demla damli the good losing young principal to of tile the school where the she tau taught glit were not en ga gadda dj tle daughter I 1 ft f the Is islands lauds sugar planter it if lie been oh it if only lie ho beell then the friendliness he lind had shown her since tier her arrival could have meant so much more to her ber the forerunner i perhaps of something so much more jore n satisfying even than friendship I 1 janet rose and with an almost unconscious gesture stretched out lur arms toward the purple sea what does life hold field for foi one she murmured wistfully A trip to and the cra crater terl I 1 janet thought for on an instant thai tha someone had seq spoken en then realized t thai tin it was wag merely hey her own thought that little imp within which represented a great longing as yet unfulfilled had taken tilts tills moment when lonesomeness surged within her and time hung heavy on her hands to prompt her why not use the emergency take tile the trip to allio illio not that tt it should take the whole of itt it at that only once tile the meager hoard board wre ware broken into tt it would not again easily withstand temptation for janet had decided to lay by cich ell v week eel out dofher of her small salary a little contribution toward an amount to take tier her bould the occasion over ever ar nelse ise to draw n what littie she I 1 had iad already accumulated abd tbd would belo be 0 o put tile the bofil still farther civay yet tiie picc of f the moment proved janeas undoing am 1 I in going to lillo im going to I 1 she sang the lie words pirouetted madly on one toot foot and turned indoors to get ready if that sinie same s inie little wicked lemon within tier her whispered that she knew she was going to because jim had told her she ought to she pretended not to hear what influence ought lie he engaged as lie was to the haughty gloria cremans Tr emans to lne have on lier life lanet janet fet feli sorry for jim in fact she lind felt sorry ever since the day when gloria had called for him pt lie school had bail found him telling het her about tile the wonders of t all buea and I 1 ind had peremptorily summoned him to her side aide with wo tin most frigid of glances at janet jim engaged to that Ice iceberg bergI 1 two days inter panted luxuriously in the party automobile which runs to the crater 0 for tile the bene belle lit of tourists janet wondered why she I 1 was not happier here site she was temporarily pora rily settled in the lap of luxury hired thou though 11 ll it was about to galeon one of the worlds greatest sights the bubbling rest lefa lake ot molten olten iri lava which la is tho the cruter crater of Kl allanea laneA it must be because she was in spite of the score or so tf effervescent gushing twirls ts in reality alone she lind had no one with cilval to share the wonder then as flit blk stood on oil tile the very prink brink vast jai au 1 sea she saw him the man who had been sd I persistently in her ber thoughts ift he w was 1 9 alone and had withdrawn apparently from a second group of tourists whose automobile had no doubt pre preceded hers lie ile will arms folded gazing down t to the colorful depths below where was wag gloria janeas puzzled eyes searched th the e crowd in vain then resolutely she crossed over to him its my first visit mr deming sherald she said sald abruptly and rid im even more impressed than I 1 had expected at the sound or of her voice lie he turned and janet found time to wonder at the lack of surprise in ills ats expression janet I 1 but what why yes tea laughed janet what I 1 want to knowl know I 1 what are you doing here and chy hy are you not spending the holidays with with 1 my ir er former fiancee jim gave a strange little laugh miss cremans and I 1 are no longer engaged in fact the affair was broken off of you I 1 janet drew back 1 I I 1 dont un deri she murmured I 1 we had a er little she accused me of being interested in you too much so walt wait dont look that way janet im telling you till this because oh it janet my darling its true I 1 the gathering gatherl hg darkness was cloaking the two of them as jim drew nearer janeas heart had leapt within her but she held herself sternly in check III 1 I I 1 oh cant you see that even it if I 1 cared we accept this at the tha expense of an others happiness jim smiled galm grimly ly dont worry I 1 lia have a suspected tor for some time that gloria gloria a was tired of me you merely served as an excuse and she saved me from doing should have hava had to have done dofie in jus justice ilee to her 1 and you I some time later jm explained how lie he lind had reached the bungalow where janet boarded just after she had lidd left leff how he lidd had missed the steamer but joined a p party Y going oyer over in their own 2 he ha was wag alone yacht how lie he had planned to tell her everything at the very summit and now no more homesick homesickness ne wit janet janef I 1 lie he admonished lie her r tenderly titter after hearing lier her part of the story our honeymoon shall be a trip to the tha states I 1 janet smiled it need tu key and cranberry sauce titter after all to make a thanksgiving this la is the 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