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Hear about Tiny Brown? You think you are honest?
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more respectful, which she thought to mix you.. was puzzling but all right.
Peggy Splint, at the library desk, couldn't quite entch all they sald to each other. But It was Peggy's con- clusion that James Penny was a slicks
one.
Of course Peg thought that about most of the summer residents and the young artist in South Can and any other inan who wore a scarf instead of a necktie,
Drenham people didn't take longi to agree with Penny, though.
going to
one, that's what I'm
"Oh Daddy. I'm ali—” · "Well, maybe you're right I don't like the idea of depe, fill stir you up come cough syrup, that's what?"
Oscar didn't get around to doing either one because, in the daytime, Tiny always seemed to perk up some. It was James Penny that helped make Tiny's days better. Mr. Penny her a good deal. And he
ked
Those days Tiny couldn't seem Fer about James care so much what Mrs. Epps sald. He began combout Tiny didn't, mean to go against her, Into Brown's drugstore pretty often. but of course everybody Itnew Mr. Hood deal of just talking. He'd wedge up at one end of the Epps did
Then Just Read
THIS
1
2
50,
When the conductor forgets to collect your fare, do you keep it?
Are there books on your shelves which do not belong to you and should be returned to their owners?
to
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Have you ever borrowed an umbrella ar mackintosh and omitted to return it?
4
Did you ever push abend of somebody in a queue?
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Have you ever made telephone calls and left someone else to pay when they get the bill 7
A
7
Have you ever tried on a tram to pass
1
Have you ever kept somebody else's newspaper, maguzine.
Do you ever let yourself be served before your turn in a shop?
child as of half-fare age, or under, when you know it was over the age 7
A
fountain, out of the way, as polite Mr. Penny was very sweet to Tiny as you please.. But he never seemed, and always polite. When he invited to give a hoot who was listening to her to drive over to Ploughman's Inn him telling to Tiny, No matter who for supper there wasn't any reason way in the store, he'd talk along or why not. Eli Pride wouldn't be call-
that was
was certain. emily as if the two of them were ing up that evening.
Brenham people weren't fute about alone in a front parlour.
James Penny. He was A famous author but he tried to stay modest about it.
He wasn't so young any more, but he tried hard to stay lim- ber and guy and sympathetic. was wise about women, but he tried hard, hardest of all, to stay simple and honest with Tiny Brown.
Probably the devil himself couldn't have Axed up a temptation to bent that sweet, nice child, Ifer blue eyes fresh Hitle with dark lashes, her mouth, her quick soll voice saying kind eager things young as the
"Not that he says anything wrong
her. Tiny," Mrs. Epps warned
Nothing you could put your finger on, that is. But it is smooth talk And he's old enough to be your father."
Tiny didn't think he was that ok, However, she only said, "Well, he's for so polite, Mrs. Epps, Isn't it right me to be polite to him in the store
"In the store?" Nettie Eppa pursed her lips ominously. "Don't think for
He
a minute that men like James Penny spring. It was the good purt of James ure ever satisfied with what they can Penny that wanted Tiny most, want- get in a slote."
TINY
understood what Mes. Eppsed her all the time it was telling him meant at least well enough to hope to keep, lands off. He wasn't a
Scoundrel. Mrs. Epps wouldn't see her in James But, of course, he was human. Penny's car. It was a beautiful car.
At any rate. James Penny was wide and low. Thy gut into it on driving back from the movies in evening because Mfr. Penny passed! fer coming from Drentum Four Winbury, and Tiny, beside him, was Corners and It was getting dark and saying especially nice things about the picture because a friend of Mr. Tiny couldn't, on the spur
Peany's had directed it, when all at moment. think of any reason he
once she heard him make a funny shouldn't drive her home.
noise almost like a moan.
"What, Mr. Penny?" He stopped the
If a tradesman hunded you a $10 note by mistake for a $5 without noticing it. would you accept it?
or bottle of milk when it was wrongly delivered?
DI
10 Have you ever returned goods as damaged or defective when
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you yourself damaged them ?1
you found a purse containing $50 in some unlikely place and were not seen picking it up, would you keep it and
zay nothing instead of handing it over to the police?
When a publle telephone or slot-machine cheats itself and returns you more than you are entitled to, do you lake it ?
13 Have you ever taken some trifle in a shop when no one else
was looking
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Do you borrow small sums of money or stamps and fail to repay 7
13 Did you ever have something sent oh approval from a shop,
use it once with satisfaction, and then return it as un- suitable ?
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In school, did you ever cheat al examinations?
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Have you ever passed on (or irled to) a counterfeit evin that someone passed on to you?
18 Do you repeat the clever saying of others us if they were
your own i
you could obtain $200,000 by some trick, without much danger of being found out, would you take it?
20 Have you ever used your employer's or someone else's
stumps for personal correspondence?
frightened or excited, happy or her-t. Doc Middlebrook worked on Tiny ribly miserable.
till two A.M. before she opened her All day she kept expecting El eyes. Ell was right there when sho
She did.
He spoke to her exactly once the whole way! "Very Small, to-night I'm old and sick at heart. Do your roughly and twisted sideways to Prkle to come Into the store.
mind if I just look at you and don't talk"
face her.
"Very Small, you—you're so dar- ing-50 darling!" He kissed her, Tiny already knew that some days She wasn't exactly surprised, And Mr. Penny's writing didn't go well she wasn't embarrassed, as she was and then he felt terrible. So she just the day in the store. But she could snuggled into the
leather gorgeous
feel Mr. Penny's hands, cn her shout- cushions and smiled nicely for hunders, trembling His face, in the dim whenever he did look at ter ustead glow from the instrument board, was of the road. The big whirring heater
strained, sent a warm blast around her darap Very Small, do I seem to you feet, and Tiny thought that if Mr old-or-worn at the edges? Scuffed? Penny was heartslek it was nice he 1-oh, gosh, perhaps it's even more had such a lovely car to be it in. wrong to ask you to marry me than It wasn't Mrs. Epps who saw Tiny just-but sweet, I-I'm not married in Mr. Penny's car. It was Eli Pride. now, I Eli had finally gotten up nerve to tell
For a second he paused. Tiny was he'd bought a tuxedo to take her looking at him. Tiny
She wasn't really to the Young People's Formal. He
**hearing the dumsy words he was Oscar Brown's was coming across
making himself say. Her soft eyes east pasture in tell her, when James were wide, her lips were Penny's car stopped at the front gate, pusted.
a little She was freut, and young. let Tiny out, and drove away. Thayenny's heart leaped, and hope, saw Ell coming. She waited for him forever young, rose up in him and
came flooding out in words.
beside the mailbox.
"I suppose that's part of being polite to a store customer."
"Ell, what
"So how you sneak off in the guy's car where there isn't marble count ter to get in the way."
Tiny gasped. It couldn't Pride talking that way. happened
be
El
"Ell! I just
did
come
Tiny! Look at me. Tiny, you're all right. You've got to be, Cripes, I love you such a lot! Oh, Tiny
"Eli" Her eyes stayed open. Shr could hardly whisper but she said it as if it were a ringing shout: "Ell, You really said it-you-Oh, Ell, say
a
"didn't know why she expected that, or what she expected he'd say if he
in. Anyway he didn't. By suppertime, Oscar Brown was in dither
"Tiny, you've got the jumps. What were you doing cough ing this morning before daylight? I'm not going off and leave you with the store
Naturally he couldn't say it again | now she'd called attention to it, but "Oh, Daddynt, that's what?"" "Well, maybe you're right. Any- he stayed leaning over her and hold- to him os if Doc way I'm going to mix you up some ing her close cough syrup, that's what I'm going Middlebrook and the others weren't 10 do! And you take n full tables there. She couldn't raise her own poonful, you hear me, right after arms, so she just sort of nibbled you've had your supper, that's what!" sleepily at one of his cars with her
"Yes, Daddy.
lips. Oseur dithered around so in his course Drenham people got mad prescription room that George Wharf ni Oscar Brown, because they said it had to call him three times and was just like him to tell Tiny to take Anally yell, "You Decor! We're ten a tablespoon of cough syrup and then minutes late right now. Come on!" decide to leave her a bottle of sleep- Oscar came and George rushed him ing medicine instead. Five drops of of the store so fast that there Oscar's sleeping dope is the usual wasn't time for a fast kiss or even a dose. Tiny Pride is probably the "Precious little thing. I love you. pat. Tiny was sort of whispering, only person who ever look a table- It will be all right, because I love "Goodby, Goodby, Daddy“ when spoonful, you. 1 won't let We'll hide away-away from crowds
anything louch you. the door banged and she was left What Drenham people overlook. there thinking about never seeing though, is that if Oscar weren't the and hard stupid people. Very Small, hini any more-nt least not for a long way he is, his daughter would have will you marry me?”
married that Polsoner sure. That time TINY didn't say anything. Mr. Tiny made her own supper at the Poisoner is what Drenham people still remny didn't wait for her to before fountain-hamburger on tuust, glass call James Perny, in spite of his not The kissed her again, She
realized of milk, chocolate marshmallow sun- having had anything to do with 1.
น
or
"A lot of things'll Just happen she must have decided, at some day with nuts. And she had pro- No, Penny wasn't really any sort of
it you let'em. Seems like things just happened_with_you a right from the start."
time before to-night. 10 marry misca Lehn--1---10--asked-her. --- Because
ber
mised her father about the cough scoundrel at sil. But a man can't and this guy Licht
She-got-the-bottle-where-he happen along these days and sec use gyrup. she still wasn't
't surprised. James hat felt it for her on his work table, Tiny Pride watering, Eli's plough Tiny stood there staring up at Eli Penny Pride's face, It was set as stone, and ds now and looking at her, humb and conscientiously poured out her team and two tow-headed, kids all at
holding Wils
two
his eyes were cold blank. All of ally, seriously. He told her about a sudden something inside Thy just little church by a
let
**t 80:
you
river where
britning tablespoonful. It was bit-the same trough without figuring the ter and raw and made her eyes run, girl's better off for having swallowed but probably there might have been that dope of Oscar's; tears in her eyes anyway. Because
You! What have you ever cousin of his was minister. He would done-what right have you got to say get the licence, and after the days Tiny stood there struking the little THE END who I can go with and who I can't? I
required by law, they would drive | bottle and whispering. “Oli, Daddy. suppore
expect me to just alwuys in the night and stay at the cousin's wall around for-Who do you think house and in the morning be married
Poor Daddy?" you are, Et Pride? I'll go anywhere there beside the river. I want to! I go riting with Mr.
time he asks me Penny
nway.
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Of course Eli Pride knew that Tiny shut up store on Merchants' nights. "But—but if I run away--I mean He knew she walked
The Socialy home alone acknowledge El turned and walked away down if we go off in the night like that- Maybe that had something to do with donations: the narrow road. The thin crusty poor Daddy"
"Very Small, people will spoil this his being in the neighbourhood that In memory of the late Mra. snow inade crisp crunchies tindres his heavy boots. Tiny stood, frozen. Her if we let then. Darling, trust me Thursday evening. But he didn't have Barros car, C. & White $10. Mr. L. Gard- throat began to buck-to ache. "And No, 1 mu
No, I must make you see. Darting, any plan to speak to her, and when ner, Mr. Au Chuen, Mr. G. Hailgan 41.50, Mr. TK._N." de he saw James when he hasn't actually said any- all your friends Is Drenhat would the store für drive up to 32. Mr. C. P. Basto
right where he in 50, Mr. W. Dudinan 1. Joe $1. thing" No, Eli had never
Mr. IL W. Pomeroy 31, Mr. H. S. S. Kwong Bald he
he try to stop you try to make li seein foved her, And he looked at her with ugly. I-1 don't blame them, but" was, down by the far side of the Mr. The Shing 11. Mr. G. Ling $1. cold blank eyes. He was walking his law set with a sort of desperate does about what they want most to memory of
Congregational church. "A person Mr. H. M. Chan $1, Mex. Hocha $i. Mr. L. He was never coming back, determination—“but they'd be wrong! | O If a follow didn't stop in Brown's And my friends would be even worse do, I expect." It Tiny Brown wanted drugstore for his cigarettes. It was a cock
--cocktails and champagne and mile and a
a_ball_further on to the Jerucks about marriage-thosque ; to ride with James Penny it was her Mr. & Mr. F. W, Quark $5.
people own free choice. store. Ell didn't stop at would frighten you and you'd hate But all of a sudden Eli silffened The lights in Tiny saw him twice, go them. On, precious little thing. I'm like a dog in the field. past wit
with the truck.
not going to let them get at you, not Brown's plate glass window weren't out. Eli saw James Penny come out What Tiny did not see was Ell out ever. We'll hide away and you'll in the Pride wood lot those next gray always be sweet and fresh and odor-
from days. Nobody saw, except Pride's able. Just us together for always." hired man, Chester, Old Chester, James Penny meant all he ankt, A sweating in the raw wind, fed logs man could hope, with Tiny in his under Ell's' whizzing аке. Chester arms. Tiny's eyes could make a mon never had said anything about Thy and new and make it all different believe that he could start life fresh
and Ell, and of course he wasn't going to begin now,
than before.
of the store with Tiny in his arms. He was carrying her. And where Ell stood he could swear that Tiny's head was hanging sidewise iri
funny way.
had gotten Tiny into the front seat. When Ell reached the ear, Penny She was slumped there, and behind He did say, "Easy with that axe,
He had a
hard the persanding her in the back Eli saw the pile of yellow pigskin bags that belonged to boy" then a pause and, sort of off Tiny that they ought to run away.
She loved her father. She could Jomes Penny. Ell know how long in
was
paid
"Girls are all kind of Night, ardly bear the idea of upsetting him advance Penny's board
hand. I expect."
The axe flushed and rang. "Girls," said, Chester, "are naturally flighty Always seemed to me, though. If man kept his shirt on, he could talk sense into a girl."
that way. But even if she didn't quite understand about her not fitting in with Penny's friends, she did know Mr. Penny wasn't exactly approved
Drenham
yet.
of In
Ell spun around. "Leaving town all of a sudden, aren't you, Mr. Penny?" "Look out! Look out of the way! taking this child to the doctor!"
you're taking is that!" Ell's
I'm
THE axe paused. "It isn't talk that So, in the end, the plan was made fist missed Penny's chin, but it sent makes sense. Chet. A person does for Thursday night.
bim down just the same.
about what they want most to do, I Thursday night hoppened to be the Tiny feil sideways on the front seat expect."
nonthly meeting of the Drenham
Association. Chester saw Ell's eyes-hurt, so Merchants hurt they weren't decent to look at. nonth all nine Drenham merchants
when Ell reached for her, but he'd Once slid her out and had her up in his arms before James Penny, had mors
ה
Chester bent quickly down over a gathered. for supper, at the Depot thun reached his knees.
boy."
Here log. "This stick'h onk. Let 'er have Tavem. Oscar Brown and George まし
Wharf, were two of the nine, so on those nights it was Tiny who shut He sprinted as if he wasn't carrying
Tiny only knew that Eli didn't
come into the store any more, call her
up at the house or go anywhero she went, not even to church..
up to store nine o'clock
James Penny would parked in front of the
you! Here!" yelled Penny. Ell Pride sprinted down the blocks. anything in his arms at all. Doctor be Middlebrook's house had a light in almply
busted store.
On the office addition, and Ell Tiny would right in where Chuck Pratt was get-
Oscar Brown got. pralty troubled their way out of toe-long enoughting lodine painted on his scruped |
about Tisy. She was small and she'd step at her emply
never been particularly strong. Sho to leave a note for her father and
Sh
hip.
way across the office. Doct" He held
began not sleeping nights, Oscar pick up her suitcase, already in the Ell just butted Chuck Prait half- heard her through the partition, closet under the stairs.
had a little cough, nothing wrack- It would be as simple as that. But his arms out with Tiny in them, Ing or tearing, just one of these little Tiny didn't go to sleep at all Wednes- "Doc, It's Tiny-that lousy sneaking single "chuhs" that shows a person day night. All
' New York lizard-ho was taking her sulteuse hidden off-he knocked her on the head or weight, heavy as the Thursday
la lying awake,
"I don't think much of sleeping under the stairs, seemed to be push-drugged her-or-Doc, do something! medicine." said Oscar, "but Tiny, ing on her thumping heart. Tiny Is she all right? Is she?" you don't quit lying awako I'm going}: didn't know whether .she WDS It was dope all right and plenty of
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