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At once Ellen was herself again. Bonatter. walesit in "No, no," she whispered.

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Bhe e in love with Larry Harrowgate, xlist. Larry is engages to Elizabeth Bower,

debutante,

Steven Darelay. It and her employer, ky Ellen. Myc and Molly openly favour areÏny and Ellen quererle with them over this par tiailly. Because of gossip at the store she decides to see Barcisy na more. Without

Hope left his face and pain came there. His arms dropped, stop -llo moved backward and a

away from her.

"What is it?" he repeated un- steadily.

For a moment Ellen did not re- had spond. She knew what she

Ellen's knowledge Molly invites the older, mas done and fumbled wretchedly for to dinner, borrowing money for the enway to mend the pain she had Ellen is angry and i will further duplicted But there was no way when Darely

bleycle.

Rives Mike muckled

That night Barely maks Ellen to

and the very silenco sorved to

him and she refuses. Pride will not realghten for memory and his her to tell him she loves Larry. Unwittingly momory of that lost instant. slin Trays Barclay with the hope ut inains

ber.

CHAPTER XX

"Please don't think I'm always coming to you with trouble," she

ald at last abruptly.

"You know, I'd never think that he interrupted gently. down, my dear."

"Sit

Days passed. Difficult days for Ellen. Days when her efforts fo

She sat down. All her careful meet

insurance payments, milk

She thought bilis and butcher bills seemed phrases failed her.

Days she would die before his look. hardly worth the effort.

"Go on." he said more urgent-

when she needed. aloep and rest and leisure and felt that the burly. His brown eyes were upon her den of the double job, so vitally face. necessary for the present, was too much to bear..

"Because something TM same. thing a little unpleasant has hap-

"I've been thinking of that my- once, thrusting self," he said at

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Ellen thoughts, his own hopes. saw with relief that he was busi- ОПСС more, composed ness-like and cempetant.

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She had not broken with Steven.pened," she faltered desperately. in "I would like to know if I may be She could not. She saw him the store and occasionally outside transferred from cretonnes to an-

usually at luncheon. He did not other department." speak again of marriage bat in a thousand ways he unconsciously revealed to her what was in his heart.

those There were times

hur ried, flurried days when she for- got her problems, delicious, thrill ing times made of the stuff of dreams. Those were the hours ahe] "ve spent with Larry. In vain Molly Job for you."

"What sort of a job?” id protested, had wept, had be-

"I had already come angry. Ellen persisted in

You're 50 her determination to see him when memorandum for you. she chose. One Monday evening prickly with pride that I want you the quarrel between her and Molly to know I haven't created the job had

to

climax. on the spur of the moment." An ugly Larry had arrived at the apart-

and Molly He drew three typed sheets of ment, unannounced,

After paper clipped together from had asked him to leave. ward there had

a spirited drawer and slid them across

Ellen fend them, wonder. scene between mother and daugh- desk.

The first was from Lorene ter resulting in a victory of sortsing. for Ellen. At any rate Molly had Elcott, the buyer of missca' dress- visible campaign es. She needed an assistant buyer stopped her against Larry. What was in her and asked for a suggestion. The second from Steven to her, re- mind the girl did not know.

On Tuesday

cited Elleh's qualifications and went to the basement lockers at asked for the buyer's approval. Barclay's to hang up her hat and Across the bottom of the sheet cout. "Absorbed

her Haal Lorene had scrawled "O. K-let in merning Weariness, she was slow me see har.". The third contained to notice the group of saleswomen a brief request that Elles colli clustered about the mirror head-Steven's office.

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phoned me about 15 minutes ago Hondy was in the centre.

The girl's face blazed. Her asking you to come see her some throat felt dry and her hands be-time this morning.”

Ellen glanced again at the slips gan to shake. She started slowly toward the group, recognized in her hand. A faint colour rose in It was the dream of Jenny Elkins, and saw that Jenny her face. was watching her progress with every salesgirl to become a buyer, Buyera fascinated fear. None of the dream few realized. others perceived the white-faced, moved in a world apart from ord!- They came and angry girl until she was upon nary employees.

went almost at will. The girl felt them.

"Perhaps you'll let me share the an unexpected thrill at the idea of story," Ellen said softly. "It becoming included in such a seleci seems only fair since you're dis-group, a thrill that was coloured by cussing me."

the thought of leaping over the Consternation smut the group. hends of her fellows and escaping No one moved or spoke. Jenny's the reach of their cruel tongues.

"Don't think I'm impertinent," compact clattered from ho hand. She dared not stoop. The others che said with youthful awkward- were embarrassed, ashamed, frighness, "but did you suggest me for tened. Mrs. Bondy enw her power this job because you thought I allpping. She made an effort to was qualified to be a buyer or bo- regaln it.

cause you liked me?" "Suppose you tell us, dearie," "I was afraid you'd ask that," "We'd all love to he responded with a rueful, con- she remarked.

old fused laugh. "I'll try to be know what it's like being an

honest. man's darling."

I think it was a mixture For a moment the issue hung of the two. You're intelligent and in the balance. Then one girl you have taste and that qualifes As for the rest I did suggest laughed in nervous hysteria. The you. others caught her up. A wave of you because I like you-although high, cruel laughter beat at El-that's a pale way of putting it." len's ears and drove the blazing colour from her face. She saw that her CRUSH was lost. An almost overpowering impulse to announce that she was engaged to awept over her.

Stoven

Ellen flushed furiously.

"You're to understand there are no strings to the job," he re- marked suddenly, flushing in turn. "But you do understand that,

don't you?"

It would be a way to stop that laughter and wipe the complacent

He longed to tell her, he wanted that she held a her to know, smile from Mrs. Bondy's face.

Ellen hesitated, made her fle-place in his life apart from any He wanted cision and gave the giggling group other, human being.

she her to know that it was not a proud, scornful glance moved off without another word. prosaic, workaday job that he de fier thoughts wore spinning roundsired to lay in her lap but every- and round. Her heart seethed thing beautiful and lovely in the

with rage and humiliation.

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world. Jowels she should have- He 1 jewels and fura and clothes. She took the elevator to Steven's wanted to wrap her in the gar- office. She waited until the thunp-ment of his love and lay the world But he lacked the ing of her heart subsided before at hor.feet. sho knocked. Steven himself words to say those things.

Ellen suspected dimly what it opened the door. His look of Bur- priso faded into delighted wel- must have cost him to say so lit- come. Thon he saw that she wastle. How easy and simple ho bad unstrung and wretched and he made her path and with what in- came close to her, drawing her In- finite graciousness he had done no! In her gratitude and relief side.

con- she was near saying just then the words that he longed to hear.

"1 know you wouldn't tie strings

"What is it?" he asked, cerned and peremptory,

Ex-

Ellon began to tremble. hausted from the force of anger to anything you offered," she said

and humillation, close to tears as she heard the anxiety in his voice, she felt n subtle, almost over powering weakness. Unconscious

at last tremulously, feeling for the second time a subtle, treacherous weakness running through her "I could never think that. body.

ly she tightened her grip on his know you're the kindest man hands and no sho leaned forward I've ever met."

her troubled face came close to The kindest man she had ever

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The gesture had its immediate effact, Barclay's heart beat high with sudden, logical hope. Quite simply he drew her into his arms.

meti Stoven would have pre- ferred something else, perhaps But.she had said that. His dark eyes lighted. He leaned across the (Continued on Page 18.)

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