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BEACH CLUB GIRL
CHAPTER XXXIV
By MABEL MCELLIOTT
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The big man at the mummoth, desk was dark-browed, frowning. He swung his chair about to face her, speaking rapidly into the telephone the while.
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Houghton purred. "It's most irregu- and cleanliness and that he trans- lar.
uilted this to his staff, It was a burning morning. During "I know, and thanks
Meantime the effect was to mako the night the water carts had sprinki Beats drifted away. She would have her conscious of her own slightly ed the dusty streets and for a brief to get out somehow-at four o'clock. crumpled dark frock. The collar had space during the early hours fresh-
The early afternoon hours wheeled been fresh that morning but hours in nesa persisted. By half past nine the by, "If I go," Boots thought, "and the confusion and heat of Lacy's had heat was unendurable.” The sky nothing comes of it I'll lose my job stolen Its virgin crispness. It only noemed a copper bowl Inverted over here: I'll be one for." She was she had had time to go home and the face of the earth.
fatalistic about that job. It had been change. Nothing, however, could keep thela life-saver to her.
Sho knocked at 421- Burton Mas- crowds from the sale counters 41|- On the other hand Masterson's book terson. Vice President. Lacy's. They pressed In-women in shop would open up a new life. Denis: thin allks; women in cheap cottons, naturally was optimistic but it wan the scams straining under their absurd to say it was "all nowed up" bulging arms; wamen with expensive when Masterson hadn't even talked handbags and clean gloves; women to her. with neither and with parcels wrapp ed in sleazy paper, tied with thin, unreliable strings. Boots hated them to-day with a deadly hatred. It was agony to be courteous, to force interest into one's dying tones.
Woyid the morning never end?
"I'm feeling ill, Mr. Bllan." It was The humid air was like a tangible true. Nervousness had given her a thing, pressing against her chest, feeling of nausea and her head dehed. stling her. Once a girl fainted. Everything swam before her. sat down. The rapid fire conversa-] LONDON SERVICE down a crowded aisle, and the other "Well, well.
lie paused than went on. Evidently the persON clerks peered at each other with Impatiently, tapping his pointed pencil at the other end of the wire was harried eyes as a space was cleared against the counter. You may go attempting to conciliate the hig for the sufferer's passing, Thero then but you'll be docked for this, publisher with very little success. would be "heat wave" headlines in It's been a terrible day. Girls dron- "Can't be done," he barked finally the papers again to-night. In the ping like flies, .. He turned his Into the mouthplece. "You tell him aluma Bremen would open
theek upon her and forgot her and it's my ultimatum. Delivered copy hydrants to gush bright streams of ofter a hurried word to Miss Apfel on Thursday or we are all washed water into the streets where the abe fled. urchins might play,
dragon, Boots
At half past three Boots walked over to Bir. Bliss who was signing a enleshook with a flourish. Her heart was thudding painfully.
Io looked wilted; even his white carnation drooped.
"He was to deliver on the first, We're getting pretty fed up. The advertising, department is on my neck and you can tell him I'm of two minds about the whole thing. If we can get Bayfeld I'll let him go. His tract's up... "
con
He motioned to a chair.and Boots
up,"
Heavens, what Boots Kaw the lands of her watch) It had been so easy; her head still thought, glancing sidewine into the crawl around to her lunch period with swam with the surprise of it. She deep well of the court, framed by the panatonate sensation of gratitude, found herself out on the torrid pave: plato gloss window. The receiver She would have tced ten
sheinert among the jostling crowds. It went down with a bang and the would bathe her face and hands.
was a pity she hadn't time to refresh swinging chair revolved until ita herself but she would have to hurry occupant faced her squarely now to make the appointment on time. How like Deals' arrogance to make a four o'clock appointment for her, knowing perfectly well how difficult it would be for her to keep it.
heart.
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As she went to her locker the head of the department beckened to her from the doorway of a glasped and partitioned cubicle. Man Houghton looked stern, but then that was her habitual expression, Honts was con- elous of a lift of upprehension in her "He thinks he can run the whole | books,"
world. I hate him," she thought, She hated herself, hated him, fur "Someone is calling you un the burning with resentment, No, the making her falter and stammer this telephone, Mrs. Lund," said the older would not be greateful to him for giv way. Why was it she always felt woman in a perfectly expressionlessing her thuis opportunity. It was just such a fool in these business inter- voice which, however, managed to part of his pride and arrogance. He lown? Would she never learn convey the ingression of displeasure. wanted to show everyone how omnis poise? But this big, handsome, "You know employes are not supcient he was and if he could help you frowning man of 40 had a rapler posed to have enlis within hours, hutte a Job it satisfied his conceit, Boots
glance that stabbed one, stripped one I will make an exception. . . .* told herself ungratefully.
of all small devices and pretences.
"Takes intelligence," Burt Master- on said, knitting those heavy brows of his in a manner truly terrifying. "We've got several other applicants. Guena P'd better look 'em over. you know."
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The lobby of the big, office building When Boot heard Denis' voice she was cool, almost empty. She stepped realized why the exception had been into a car with intricate bronze grilles, mude. Not even prim Miss Houghton, her heart beating double time, ainyi eyeglasses, bi and plump, could re- M. Masterson would be gone.
ist Denis at his minst charming, maybe he would not see her. after She said, "Yes," in a tone deliberate- | nil. ly restrained and impersonal,
You were going to call me," Denis necused,
"I forget."
She hadn't. Of course, she hadn't. But after yesterday--had he really thought she would telephone him this morning? What did the man think
she was minde of?
"Well, here's the lay-out," Denis went on. "You're to see Manterson this afternoon--abook four. Can you Ret o?"
Miss Houghton was within hearing Boots must not give herself away.
"I don't know. Not unless it's most awfully important."
blond girl with sculptured curls and mascaraed lashes took her name indolently and plugged in two black Jubber knobs at the switchboard.
"Mrs. Lund, to see Mr. Masterson All righty."
She swept the lashes in Boots' direction, Room 421," she directed. "ille name is on the door."
Let
She stood up, recognizing dir missal. But she had one last word for him.
I've been there for almost a year. "I'm at Lacy's," she said briefly,
smail pointed face with its frame of "That ? His eyes raked her git hair. "Well, let you know. Write your name and nedress here. Telephone muaber, too.”,
(To Be Continued.)
This was the way, she reminded Boots pushed the swinging herself, they let you down easily, hogany gate inward and looked about They suld, "We'll let you know," and her interestedly. A dozen-two dozen of coarse they did nothing of the girls lifted curious eyes from type kind. Well, she could bach to writer and billhead as she passed. Lary's and the sales counters This big, orderly room with its shail bargain days. This had been a ed windows, its dark green com: mirage, a chimera, She hadn't really The thing is practically sewed up. position floor on which feststeps fell believed in it."
recmed dla and cool in the He just wants to see you. He's in thing heut of the afternoon, Mardell Building, Fifty-seventh
order. Big desks with neat piles of papers clipped and "Yes, I've got H."
weighted with clear glass squnrest "Well, be there like a good girl shining typewriters; young women Let me know what happens)
with shining waved hair, crisp blouses, She stod staring at the instrument powdered noses, Boats had a dazed in her band like a dazed creature. impression of almost superhuman "You understand this is not tretidiness. She was to learn later that ating precedent, Mrs. Lund." Miss Burton Masterson's passion wan order
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