Show r YO U 0 F KNOW OW 5 88 by AMY CAMPBELL m mcclure jc Cluro newspaper syndicate service r OIS CIS moving in and out amons amon the home going 0 crowds was suddenly filled with expectancy it was not quite sensible to be 0 stirred by the mental rel terance of certain phrase not a spoken one caught in the con of the street not one from business slogans traced i a electric signs merely a small group of words that across her ordinary think ig oddly and like a flash something irbin her was saying rl right ht in t the he of her arithmetic just as she turned the corner As she walked cautiously through the let et streets trying to avoid spattering er lr stockings this new phrase kept lining iving between everything she was linking until with a certain quality impatience she paused mentally to large back at the inner voice and what happened if she did turn is 19 corner iler her mind was an ail instant blank this annoyed her into further chal ngang ngan who turned the corner and what p and all ail the rest go on on but there was seemingly a helpless ss within her for further su suggested bested venture her ber feet growing hot and tired in abers she stopped to have coffee a small shop she opened her evens newspaper and at once in the lly lily verse there leaped to greet her is es au ou never know waiting just around the bend ull dilill maybe find a dollar or a brand new friend lols knew that the little lost phrase A d significance and solution just as you turned the corner you und something she almost sparkled as she stepped am aln into the night i rain bain still came in steady showers it t she ille was not hungry or tired now why go home she turned to the nearest talkie and 1 not realize that she was really aning a corner her parasol tangled instantly with other and when she peered under id d around to see what she was doing ere was jerry karn from whom she ok ok dictation every day of her life he was getting ready a courtly apol y having seen only the really lovely wing dering feet and slender ankles that longed to lois at that moment the phrase returned her mind fairly singing to her as she turned the corner it persisted with lifting inflection ring her honest eyes peering beath bealh her green parasol under the n ot of her small green hat a charming A waiting excitement terrys jerrys words were heady beady with ad well of all luck LOIS gilled bewilderingly it t was all too worl wonderful derf ul terry jerry with eyes that had never par arly lighted for her smiling as if ey had a date and had met a little oner to his big delight b goin going somewhere he asked fool iby N no ko place in particular just ought bought I 1 might get out of the rain in i palace mome on 9 he said taking charge of ir desperately proud of his tall right 86 B of 0 herself she waited to be dorried almed after he bought the tickets pe e huddled low in the seat to look into her eyes hunching bunching hun ching one ulder lower for the smallness of saying ay ng do 0 you know ive always wanted talk alk to you he listened to the inner voice prods to breathlessness and believed ell 1 this was what happened when ast st the phrase was complete just you OU turned the corner you found kelt belr running into jerry this gorf goff way and his eyes fairly asking erd you keep yourself up till now 0 o ther other man in the world could ch iny ny girl how to talk to jerry ola 11 dould could only smile thinking many bs as back of her answering eyes tog I 1 ng 1 h yes and I 1 know and you really rid rd they whispered because the era re were vigilant for silence ut erward she recaptured every 9 he had said counting the words jewels touching them with trem 18 8 dissection never noticed before saw you working as if were a machine am I 1 keeping from watching the picture 1 I a dy y wonder of words from jerry until tonight had only uttered e courtesies and business phrases they ey went out he hummed the me e song gong guiding her back towards BUSY auty streets md and just in a moment S they turned the corner around which they had met mel she felt a sudden vigor vigo r in jerrys arm as his hand band tightened around hers to bialt them both well of all the luck he was saying to a couple of girls margaret and phyllls he called them very great friends apparently ne lie introduced lois and the girls looked her over she felt them holding her guilty of something and then jerry was hailing a taxi well just drive lots lois home bebas he was saying and all 1111 the way home the two girls talked to him arid and jerry talked back back to them and lois listened only vaguely because now she was lost again and shy eby oh ob here we are so soon sooil jerry announced as the car stopped and he slipped out to take lois to her door some other night lols lois 11 lie he mur aured carelessly and disappeared so quickly elie ehe stood on the step a moment ment wondering under her pat hat green parasol it if he had only been part of 0 a dream the next day jerry was late at the office and lois did not look up as he passed lier her desk ills his buzzer sounded and she stole in to take his dictation with a sense of dread of course he would read in her eyes that she had thought about things I 1 nto into the night remembering him counting ills his words like jewels wishing they had not gone back around the corner and met the others oh wanting him desperately to tangle ills his umbrella with her before ever it rained again a aln good morning he said abstractedly not looking up im in late well have to work fast slie she settled herself for rapid copying I 1 her small hand hew flew in cool accuracy while the other hand held her place and turned pages like a swift purposeful wind she masked herself with effi efficiency cleric when he had finished she sighed a little out of breath physically and mentally he readied reached over and caught her fingers pencil and all lois did I 1 go too fast she studied him coolly needing her hand instantly to gather up tip her pencils he did not smile as a certain reproach crept into his voice well take your time getting the stuff out and his tones dismissed her the inner voice was speaking just as she turned the corner jerry P it stated adventurously she stopped typing and imperceptibly stamped both her small feet tears were blurring her notes of course last night to him was just an incident Inel deni he had forgotten just before closing time jerry signaled for her lots lois he said what are you yon doing tonight can we go somewhere din ner and anything we like afterward she smiled with a brilliance she hoped was convincing arent you nice but the weeks all dated all of it yes s well sunday P he persisted out of town for the weekend week end monday following taken tuesday crossed out too II wednesday V promised she faltered thursday well thursday I 1 have a permanent date I 1 cant break friday lois was blinking with steady monotony to evade tears jerry being persistent like this even if he be mean it even if hed beld drop her around the first corner for someone more interesting te friday r ay Is 9 for or my very best es friend ren 1 I thought so he answered dull dully 1 I wanted my sisters to meet you again soon they could only half see sea you last night but my luck your sisters love you lois anyone would he continued glaring at desk seeing you in your little green outfit looking up from under that mushroom parasol with big gorgeous eyes just as she turned the corner she thought rapturously and completed aloud jerry I 1 chos the man lois tell me tell me I 1 each demand beating upon her was beautiful she smiled wisely imaginatively agi natively now as if peering cautiously from beneath a mushroom parasol just try and find |