Show uncle jims I 1 advice 0 by JANE OSBORN A copyright TM SORRY said the girl in the outer office as she regarded jane monday appraisingly but ur mr john doremus and his uncle the other mr john doremus are tied up to in important conference lie ile simply cannot be interrupted the conference certainly was I 1 important porm but not just just the way the girl in the outer office thought it was john doremus sr sat at his glass covered mahogany desk chair tilted back smoking with all the serenity of I 1 philosopher nis IRS nephew sat almost RS as comfortably also smoking in an ample chair at the side of the desk john doremus sr was president of the concern and his nephew was secretary in the absence of tile the vice tice president and the treasurer who completed the executive quartet of the concern they were holding conference alone everyone who did not attend these conferences regarded them as of almost solemn importance of course you ought to get married said the elder doremus 1 I guess youre right uncle john said his namesake ive met a lot it of nice girls lately but I 1 cant say that there Is one of them that would want to marry me r t now how many have you proposed to asked the uncle ancle the nephew was nonplussed nonplus sed at the question why none of them he gasped 1 I never proposed to a girl in my life I 1 tm blessed 1 said the older man chuckling and looking over tits his glasses at his nephew in mild amazement ill give you a bit of advice and at the same time make a confession when I 1 was a younger man I 1 was a good deal like you not bad looking but not the sort that the girls just naturally fell tor for I 1 wanted to get mari married led so I 1 made up my mind that id fu fuss ss every girl I 1 knew that was at all a attractive I 1 wait until I 1 fell in love with a girl so deeply that it would hurt to have her turn me down donn and added the uncle seriously 1 I had ma mada I 1 up my mind that it if any girl ever did take me in good faith I 1 disappoint her id stand by my guns well I 1 met a girl giri a rather plain girl and just from force of habit I 1 rushed her and before I 1 knew it I 1 was engaged to her that la Is how I 1 married your aunt mary but sho she la is an attractive woman yes 6 chuckled the uncle the funny tiling thing about it so my plan was a good one after all so well if you want to get married my advice to you la Is that you yon start in making love just to get used to it 1 the younger doremus owed all his bis success in life to taking hla his uncle johns nh time ha let eft thi the conferee conference con terence c e ln 1 n hrs uncles uncle s too room that morning he had definitely made up tp hla his mind to take the tha older nans mans advice in this matter to get to his own office he had to cross throng through h the outer office tie ile was much preoccupied not with business but with thoughts of this new plan he be was wondering just how he would begin an and d as he wondered he almost collided with jane monday jane monday had come from her it home four hundred miles away tom monday her brother worked and lived here in the big city she was passing through on her way to a house party and had only a few hours she had lost her brothers address and wanted to get in touch with him his ells name was not in the telephone directory but she had found johns business place and here she was john remembered her as ons one ot of the prettiest girls at a house party he had attended a year ago with his old college celium toni tom monday her very prettiness had made him excessively shy then now he remembered only uncle johns advice vice its almost luncheon time he said im going to take you to luncheon and you can look up your brother later youre toure very dictatorial she said and john doremus told her that experience peri ence had taught him that was the best policy at luncheon john doremus looked intently into the pretty eyes of the girl opposite to him ive often hoped eliat I 1 would see you ou again he fabricated the pretty eyes dropped i suppose ill have to confess she said falteringly 1 I thought a grent great deal about you yoa after that house party and and I 1 really lost toms address at all I 1 just deliberately called on you because I 1 wanted to see you do you think im dreadfully bold youre adora adorable ble said john trying to hide his amazement 1 I would have gone to you it if you come to me jane dear ive loved you ever since I 1 first saw you A fortnight later john doremus junior held his hand out to his uncle 1 I want to thank you uncle john for your good advice when I 1 left your office the day you gaie gae it to me I 1 fair ly ran into a pretty girl I 1 started in mating ing love to her just to get the habit babit and now dow were engaged were going to be danied man led as soon as she can get her clothes and it happens happen that ashes the prettiest girl I 1 ever saw |