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SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, SERIAL STORY—

This Could Be Your Story

By arguerite Gahagan

YESTERDAY: While the office searches for the| missing order, Sus Mary. feels Vera knows about it. Vera does, Miss Grant Had given her the order to tyre, venng Ross Clark had come in and she had shoved the order aside until morninv. She explains its disappearance easily, | Sue Mary wonders at Vera's self-assurance, :

CHAPTER TWELVE “THAT ONE,” Kitty said scornfully, as|she was powdering her nose before going home late that afternoon. She stared at Sue Mary in the washroom mirror. } “Of course she had that order. 1

8aw ‘you |speak to her and I saw her|f

go in the old man's office with those papers. And I can guess just how surprised she was to discover that they were hunting for that one in particular, Sand how innocent she acted. I [bet they ate her alibi up:

here. She’s a cool number.” Kitty pulled her ridiculous excuse of a hat down over her black curls. “She's smart, byit I bet she doesn’t make the grade with young Ross Clark.”

Sue Mary had her smile. She was|:

glad Kitly was too engrossed with Vera and|young Ross Clark to think more about Vera and the paper. That business had upset her more than shel had thought. Her head ached anf the walk home seemed twice as long. ’ She didn't want to go out that evening, hut Joe called. It had been a week since they had had a date and she couldn’t refuse now. Once with him she found her hergelf, swinging back again to the other side. All the problems at the office, all the enthusiasms of the’ YP group

of vacati plans, of the simpler things that had once constituted her

With the war talk, world problems and politics on everyone's lips, Joe's plans for a camping trip up north, his attempts to paint the joys of

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fishing, and the pressure of his hands on hers when he spoke of the | week's vacation seemed to give the| world a different color. “Sue ‘Mary,” he said, “sometimes don't you [get tired of working in that office, land playing around with | that crazy outfit? Sometimes don’t] vou think you'd like to get married! and have al home of your own? | “My job's safe. At least I think it| is. and I'm| in a swell department; there's a future in research.-I think | we ought to plan on getting married. | “1 kant you and I hope you want me. Although sometimes—I—I sort of feel you find me pretty dull—"

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“OH, NO, JOE. It's not that. T care for you.” Sue Mary pulled his arm tigher about her. “I feel sn. safe, and sure of things when I'm with you, but then there's a] whole week with time on my hands and what happens? 1 see other people and my own life seems drab. 1 want something to happen to me. | I don’t just want to work at the | office, come home and sit and read all~evening. “1 don't think vou're dull. After I'm with you I wonder about the others, because what you say is so sane, so true. And I think I am in love with you—but I'm not sure I want to get married yet, Joes “And you'll never be sure as long as you play around with those Reds,” he said bitterly. “Something will have to wake you up to the fact that theyre all phonies. But I don't know what it will be. You see, Sue Mary, I think you are hunting for adventure. . . . And I think you believe you're half in love with this Nick.” He was going away for a week, so she wouldn’t let anything precipitate a quarrel. But his words echoed in her mind. Hunting adventure, believe you are half in love with Nick. : She supposed that was the way fiw ould look, and yet, she told herself; this ‘is more than adventure—working at something that is worth while, helping people my own

a cause they are convinced is right. And as for Nick—but that always left her confused. The next day Sue Mary went to Natalie's after work. It was hot in the studio bedroom and the girls tied back the faded window drapes to catch the slightest possible breath of air. : “1'd like to get out of here,” Natalie said in her low, husky voice, She wiped beads of water from the pitcher and poured Sue Mary a glass of lemonade. “1 know where there's a grand

apartment,” she said, slouching in| §

the chair near the window. “Big rooms and real windows—not slits like these, and a view. But I can't

afford it alone. “Sue Mary, why don’t you move

in with me? Heaven knows we'll}

pe working together enough these next few months, with the election coming: along and the YP campaign in full swing. I think it would be a grand idea.” It came as a surprise to Sue Mary. She looked a bit non-plussed. “you're stuck in that funny, oldfashioned boarding house Where there isn't a soul you know or like. Half the time you're here anyway, with Vera and Nick coming over to work or talk. We could have fun, a decent place to live and no more expenses than the way it is now.”

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SUE MARY tried to think. She supposed Natalie was right. Her own drab room was simply a place to. escape from when one wasn't sleeping. vet living with Natalie would be a strange experience. ; Natalie laughed. “Yes, 1 know what you're thinking. You're so precise, so tidy, that this must bring horror to your neat little soul. Well, you can straighten up to your heart's content. “Why not try it anyway? I mean sharing an apartment. You won't hurt my feelings if: you move when you can’t take it any longer.” And so it was arranged. They all had a hand in itz Vera packing pictures, records, papers, books, and Nick making endless trips between Natalie’s old room, Sue Mary's, and the new apartment. And before she knew how it had been accomplished, they were settled, °

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BECKY.

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