trunk and locked it and then got into the car and drove away. The maids, when they came to clean the room, found nothing unusual. True, there was a lot of kleenex in the waste basket in the bathroom which was smeared with red lipstick, black eye shadow and tan foundation, but that wasn't too out of the ordinary. Not knowing the sex of the occupant of the room they thought nothing of it and cleaned the room for the next

comer.

What became of the young man? Well, he was a salesman traveling his territory and after finishing with the customers in this town he drove on to the next stop and put up again at a convenient motel. Later that same evening the same young lady emerged and repeated the same pro- cedure as the night before — window shopping, dinner and a movie. She did not always wear the same dress and accessories, in fact she seemed to have quite a wardrobe with her and always looked well dressed. She talked to no one on her trips to town except the waitresses at the restau- rants and the ticket girl at the theaters except one evening when she was standing in front of a dress shop window admiring a lovely evening gown in the window. She was spoken to first by another woman equally intrigued by the dress and got into a conversation with her about the pretty things on display. She made no attempt to attract the attentions of any men and, as a matter of fact, found it necessary to pointedly ignore men who showed an interest in her at two of the restaurants and to walk hurriedly to her car after the show one night. The man sitting next to her in the theater had suddenly discovered that he had dropped some- thing on the floor on her side and in retrieving it had accidently on pur- pose brushed his hand against her leg as he straightened up. She had moved her leg out of contact, but it was obviously an opening gambit and when the lights went on at the end and she rose to leave, he got up also, which occasioned the hasty retreat to the car.

When the sales trip was over, the young man returned to his wife and two young children in the suburban cottage outside of one of the largest cities in his state. The garment bag and the hat box and one of the suit- cases were removed from the car when he returned home, taken into the garage and locked in a storage cabinet there. Of course, the motel girl was not seen again for several months until it came time for his quarterly trip around the territory when she appeared from his room the first night out. But it was obvious, from the way he kissed his wife and played with the kids after his return that he loved them all very much and was a devoted husband and father.

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