on the couch to read when the noise began across the hall. It sounded like someone opening and shutting a door loudly over and over again. After waiting a few minutes, her ouriosity overcame her and she picked up some cartons to take to the trash barrel, and went out into the hall.

The door of the apartment opposite was wide open and possibly 8 or 10 girls were in the living room. They were all drinking and laughing loudly and no one seemed to be making any banging noise, so she went quiefly down the stairs, threw the cartons away, and started slowly back up, listening to the conversation coming from the apartment. Most of the girls seemed to have boys' names, and they were all laughing and talking about some new alliance for future freedom. When Jeanine passed through the hall from the stairs to her apartmont, one of the girls reached out and closed the door.

Vonday Dan had asked her out and she had forgotten the girls across the hall for the rest of the day. Coming home from work though, she had looked at the nameplate and learned that of the 8 or 10 girls only four lived there. Dan had taken her to a small Mexican restaurant for dinner, and to a show at the Fisher, and then to Cam's Inn for a drink and finally home at 12:30. It had been a wonderful evening and she was tired and happy. She had noticed that Dan had looked odd when they came to her apartment, but it was not until the next evening that he had questioned her about living there. They had argued briefly over it, and then forgotten it. Later after he had brought her home she lay in bed and listened to the sounds of a party across the hall and wondered why they all seemed so strange.

Wednesday night when Dan came to pick her up the four girls from across the hall were leaving the building at the same time and one of them spoke to Dan in a low voice and made some remark about jumping the fence. It didn't make sense then, but when she asked him about it he only laughed and said he didn't understand it either and maybe they were all tight. He had taken her to a lovely restaurant for fried shrimp and chips, then through the Windsor Tunnel into Canada. They had walked all over Windsor, and talked a lot about her home, and his. He had been in Detroit for three years before getting his new job and had been pretty discouraged. He talked about leaving past life behind and "new futures" for them both and by the time he had brought

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