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BEGIN HERE TO-DAT

GALE HENDERSON, pretty and 23, works slik mill. She and her 15-yesni brother, PHIL, support their invalid father, STEVE MEYERB who also worku -in the

Lo give him an smawer in a few days.

il make Gale to marry him, he promises

Únie goes skating, breaks through the low and kroveted by DHIAN WESTMORE wbonn father, how deed, built the ml15. Itelan, has come home afist two years in Paris to enter the mill. Gale disappears before he learns her name,

VICKY THATCHER, daughter of HUBERT THATCHER, Keseral manseer of the mil

schemes to yemptivate Belan.

Gale's falber becerem ut In the night. Qale geu fille eles and a late et work next morning, FISHER, the fowman, tells her that it happens again the'll lose her job.

CHAPTER XVIII

The morning wore on slowly. Gale worked mechanically, wishing her head would stop feeling the way it did, wishing the room wasn't so warmi or so noisy, wishing that just for one minule she could sink down in a chair and lean back and close her eyes and forget the flying spindles.

"It would't have done any good." she thought, to tell Fisher about Father being alck."

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narrowed.

She inspected her face critically, Tho other girl's eyes opened the case and began carefully "Can you keep your mouth shut?" powdering her forehead. She turned she asked. then and asked, "Had your lunch?"

"I'd rather stay here and rest.”

"I don't want any," Cale told her.

"Yes."

"You're sure of that?" "Why, of course."

one-not a word. Promise?"

"You."

Leota applied the powder puff to "Well, then--I'll tell you something. her checks and chin. When the en-But you mustn't say a word to any- tire surface of her face had assumed a pinky-whiteness aho seemed satisfled and put the vanity case back into her pocket. She ant down on the end of the couch, crossing one kneo over the other, and Galo noticed that she wore shoor gray hose and high-heeled strap pumps..

"You oughtn't to try to work to- day," she volunteered. "You ought've taken the day off.”

Leota's volco had dropped to an undertone. "We're going to organ ize," she said. "That's what we're going to do."

"Organize?"

The other nodded. "We're going to get together and demand our rights. And we'll get them, too. There's go ing to be a meeting. Not many know "I couldn't," Gale told her. "Even about it yet-we've got to be awful if I wasn't afraid to ask for time off careful and only ask those we can couldn't afford to. There's another trust. The men have been having doctor's bill to pay now and I'll have meetings and they're going to lot to buy medicine. They're enough some of us girls in, too. Haven't you bills as it is. I can't afford to miss heard anything about it at all

"No," Gale told her. a single day's work."

The other girl sighed. "Gee, It's tough all right," she Enid again. "Tough for all of us.

Suddenly she crossed the room to

"Well," Leota went on, "once we get organized they can't go on treat- ing us the way they have. We won't stand for it. That's why we're going a locker, opened it and took some to have the meeting-to get things thing out. A moment later she was started. I don't know when it's go

to be yet, but if I let you know, back, holding out a chocolate bar to will you como?"

ward Gale.

"Here" nhe mold, "eat thin. I brought it for lunch and then forget

•

•

Gale wished Loots would go away

No, it wouldn't have done any good And she couldn't be late again--not after that threat. It made her job seem unusually precious-the thought that she might lose it-and Galo bent and snapped off a bobbin, her hands all about it. It'll do you good, so she could close her oyes and rest moving swiftly in spite of the acho Chocolate's real nourishing, you some more before it was time to go in her shoulders..

Know,"

back to work. Sho didn't take mueb Gale looked doubtful. "I don't lock in this talk of secret meetings or organisation. She did't think it bellere" she began.. When lunch time came instead of But Leota insisted. "Oh, go ahead was anything but talk. But there' going to the cafeteria she went into and ent it! You'll feel better-didn't seem to be any other way of the wash room where there was an honest, you will. Gee, if you don't getting rid of Leota, so she said, old couch against one of the walls, eat anything you're liable to keel "Why, yes, I'll come-li

She couldn't afford to losa her

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that?"

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said, "I thought you would. I st you know just as soon as I hear any-

thing. Remember, though, don't may

werd about it to anyone"

It was inek in the shadows and Galeover like that Connie Bauman' did The other smiled. "Good" she Inld down on it and pressed her fin-the other day. Did you hear about gers over her eyes,

Her head felt as though something Gale broke off a bit of the choco- were pushing down on it. It had felt late bar and ate it. She said. "Yes, that way all morning.

heard about Connie. Thanks, She wasn't I sleepy now, but there were paina like Leota." little knife-Jaba in her arms and in her shoulders. She turned restlessly and wondered if Mrs. O'Connor had taken her father his lunch yet. She hoped he'd been able to rest, That was what Doctor Carr said he needed must. Rest and sleep. He had to have it.

Gale said, "I'll remember." There wasn't time to get any more "Forget it! We're all in the same rest, however. The bell rang then boat here. Gee, the way they work and Gale get to her feet. Leota sald, the time goes fast!" and us and the little dough we gett It's "Lord,

waited in the doorway. As a crime, that's what it is"

they Gale sighed. "I guess there isn't atepped out into the corridor she put her arm around Galo. She began much we can do about it."

talking about something that had happened the day before, something Suddenly Leota drew nearer. If that must have been funny because But it was hard for a man like her Cale hadn't been so tired she would she laughed. Gole wasn't listening. father to feel himself so useless. It certainly have noticed the crafty look She could still feel the weight press- would have been hard, even if he that had come into the other girl's Ing down on her forehead and her! | hadn't kaown how little money there

eyes. She

would certainly have feet ware like lead. Sho was, bow she and Phil had to work noticed the change in Leota's tone. Leots hadn't put her arm around her. wished and save to pay for their food and As it was Gale was entirely unsus Gale thought it looked silly rent and living expenses.

picious. The door opened and Gale turned

"That's where you're wrong," As they stepped into the big room to see who had come in. A tall girl Leota said. "All wrong. There's where they both worked Leota drop- stood facing her. She wore a blue lot we can do about it."

ped her volco again. She snld. uniform like Gale'a, but it wan rather

"What do you mean?"

Maybe I'll have something to tell short for her. The girl had dark

"I mcan

I think it's time to do you to-morrow," and hurried away. hair and eyebrows that looked as something about

the way we're Gale walked down the broad aisla though they had been drawn on with treated here and the way they cut and took her place before the spin- opencil and her upper teeth were our pay for every little thing, and dies. She didn't think of Leota again allghtly prominent. She wasn't n let people out and make the rest of all three and a half hours Inter pretty girl and she wasn't homely.us work harder. I heard how Fisher When another bell rang and the day Her name was Leota Boller.

bawled you out this morning. Gee, shift crowded Into the corridors, their that was fierce the big bunt 1 day's work ended.

Then it was Joale Gridley who with It."

schoolgirlish.

And

The newcomer moved toward the, don't see why you let him get away pushed her way to Gale's side. "I!

was nick."

aren't

saw you at noon," Josie said, "with that Lenta Bollor. You'd better stay. away from her!"

Gale asked "Why?"

couch and looked down at Gale. "All in, kid?" she asked sympathetically. "How could I help it?"

"Tired."! Gale told her. “I had to "There's away!" Leota said le up most of the night. My father darkly. "I'm telling you things "Gee, that's tough. It's tougher, going to go on like this for-

Gole looked when anybody's sick, all right"| Leota Boller took a vanity case from "I don't know what you're talking That dame's a spyl"

curiously. her pocket and went to the mirror.labout," she said.

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Josie tossed her head. "Suit your self," she said, "only I'm warning you. You'd better keep your distance,. (To Be Continued.)

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