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CHAPTER XXIV

by Laura Lou Brookmar

Miss Groves wouldn't have kept heri Dangorous for themselves and for

It was an hour after lunch time, waiting if it had bean anything like others! They've talked to this girl, tried to make her dlantisfied withi Slanting sunshine came through the that.

But why was she here? Gale look conditions in the mill, telling her the high windows into the great, gray room where machiner, Tow on row,fed-about-the room. There was a low workers are underpold and the hours were pounding and roaring. Spindles stand with growing planta before the too long and I don't know what nil "She didn't know what to do. She whirled and hands moved up and window. There were pictures on the down. Galo, bending to reach a boi-walls. One of them was a picture heard there was going to be a meet- bin, did not seo Clyde Fisher coming Gale had seen before-a country scene ing to organize the mill workers in with a long road disappearing into opposition to the company. These toward her.

She looked up quickly as she heard the distance and trees on both sides. other girls insisted she must come to his voice. "You're wanted up front." The growing plants and the pictures the meeting. She was afraid of what he told her. "Mies Groves, Krow and the other furnishings made this might happen if she didn't go-and room neem. home-like. It would be of what might happen if he did. where her office 157"

pleasant, working in a room like that, Night after night she worried about It and finally she did the right thing Away from the noise and machinery.

Miss Groves put down the letter-she came to me. Do you know then and serted through some cards what I told her?"

Gole shook her head, on her desk. She picked up ons. Your name," she said, glancing at the card, "is Gala Henderson?"

"Yes."

Galo aald that she did.

"You can go now," Fisher told her. "But see that you don't waste any time gelling back."

Galo walked down the long cor- ridor and turned to the right. Miss Groves was known as the "personnel director." Gale knew little about her! except that she interviewed new girls before they came to work and asked them questions, some of them om- barrassing. Miss Groves had come to Lhe mill since Gale started to work there and Gale had never been in her offee..

Was A

But a summens from "up front" bad omen. What could it mean? Gale remembered that Joslo had been called to Miss Groves' office once that time her sister was taken sick.

beat! Suddenly the girl's heart faster. Her father! Could anything have happoned at home? No, she wouldn't believe it-she wouldn't!

"And you've been employed in the mill for two years?"

"It's a little more than that how." Miss Groven pursed her lips and studied the card. She went on as though Gale had not spoken. "You live in the mill village, do you not?"

"With your father and brother?" Gale nodded,

"Are there any other members of the household "

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"No."

Gale sail that he did.

#

"I told her to go to the meeting and hour what was said there.

told her the beat way she could help these other employes was to let me know what it going on. Because it's my work to help our girls, even when they're in the wrong. But how can I help them unless I know just such things? I told her she and I would work together to stamp out this dan- gerous, un-American propaganda. Sho left me, completely reassured. Sho' taking the right course and knows It."

Miss Groves looked at Gale and "Your brother works in the mili, went on in her purring volee. "You nee how a few words at_the_right too, I believe?"

time can mean everything? We aren't going to let employes of this mill stray into dangerous radicalism. Sho walked more rapidly. If her

Miss Groves laid the card on her father was suddenly worse or any thing had happened to Phill Thoro desk. "What I have to any to you," We're going to keep our great big were accidents in the mill some tithes, she went on, is, of course, just be- family happy and intact. Tell me, She'd seen Art Morini taken away tween ourselves. We have our littin her eyes narrowed, "do you know of

helar" with his arm crushed so that it had talks here my girla and I--and after- any such meetings that have been

ward our lips are sealed." Miss Galo to be taken off. And there was the Groves smiled, a smile which to Gale Leota had said there was going to

of thought Leota Boller, Frasier boy-

Breathlessly, Gale opened the door was somehow repellent. Be the a meeting--but not that there had of the personnel director's office. It call this room our 'Confi-corner be been one was an attractive office with a green cause it is here I learn how to know rug on the floor and chintz curtains my girln and they learn to know me. over the Venetian blinds, There was I don't believe you've been here be a bookcaso and several chairs and on fore, Gale, have you?" the left, near the window, a mahogany desk on which wore books and papers

гожен

"No."

"Well, we must get acquainted. I

"No, Miss Groves."

"Has anyone asked you to join a group with the idea of opposing the company?"

"No."

Mias Groves sighed. “I'm glad to

and a slender voze containing two want to be friends with all the girls hear it," she said. "Of course it's i

in this great mill. All of themt important to know how far this dis- The woman who sat at the desk There are so many ways in which we loyalty has gone. Frankly, I was wore a blue dress with white at the can help each other. I want them to worried. I called you in because I throat and cuffs. She was a trifle come to me with their little secrets know you were one of cur steady. and their problems and know that reliable employes. I'm sure you un- atout and the way her hair was tuffed I will help them. You see, I love derstand that rebellion of this sort out about her face seemed a bit too girla so! I feel that it is a great will demami discipline. The company young for her. She had a round face and a high-ridged nose, on which were privilege I have hore, coming in touch will be obliged to punish those who with so many young lives. Wonder defy them. And it distresses me he perched spectacles. It wasn't a dis-ful young livest Youth is such a cause I love young people and I know agreeablo face unless you noticed the wonderful thing, my dear. Don't you that, underneath, none of them are lines about the rather thin lips.

think so?"

really wrong-hended. They make mistakes."

.

She glanced up from the letter sle was reading to the girl in the door- way. "Yes" she said crisply, "what is it?"

"Are you Miss Groves". "I am." "I'm Gale Henderson. Mr. Fisher Anid you wanted to see mo~"

only

"I suppose It Is," Galo agreed. Miss Groves put a hand on the

Gale shifted uncomfortably. She girl's arm. "Of course it is. There's remembered Clyde Fisher had said. nothing. in the world so wonderful as "Don't waste any time getting back." youth. And you have it. You're He would be angry because she had want you to tell me your stayed an long. And why did she young, problems, my_dear,"

have to alt there, listening to Mina "But, Biles Graves—"

Groves? How could she get away? "Now, now! Of course, you have The personnel director went on "Oh-Gale Henderson. Yes." The problems. Everyone has his or her slowly, "A bright girl-a girl who personnal manager's manner unbent† problems and it does de good to talk keeps her eyes open-learne a great slightly, "Yes, I did want to see you. them over. That's why we have our many things. And I'm sure you're Sit down, won't you? In that chair Confi-corner. Such a lovely youngin bright girl. If you have anything girl was here, sitting in the same chair to report, from time to time, I hope -there.'

Miss-Groves returned to her letter you're sitting-in, half-an-hour-age, you'll-come-to-ree me. I assure you and Gale sat in the chair beside the She came to me because she wanted can make it well, shall we say. desk. She felt relieved. It couldn't advice and I gave it to her. It seems to your advantage? Can I count on Lan accident or anything that had some of the girls she works with have you, Gale?" happened at

home, she was sure, taken up some very dangerous ideas,

(To Bo Continued).

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Gable's friend, virtually his shadow,; Frances Drake gives us another of those dark-haried siron interpretations. which in a single year she has made famous.

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FRIDAY, 29th®

"Lille Man, What Now?" The trials and hardships of a minor Capturing the spirit and beauty of "white collar man," and his brave, un-

A bullet in his head and his own the novel from which it was adapted. daunted wife, are graphically shown "The Age of Innocence", starring in "Little Man, What Now?" Frank revolver lying by his side, Acting Irene Dunne and John Holes, comes Barzage's Universal drama which is Sub-Inspector Thomas Carson was the King's Theatre on Tuesday. Noted at the Star Theatre with Magaret found dead in his quarters at the as one of the classica of modern Sullavan starred and Douglass Mont- Kowloon City Police Station a few American literature, the story deals gomery in the leading male role. minutes before 8 o'clock last night.

Portsmouth, Mar. 23. with the convention-ridden era that in "Little Mian, What Now?" Bor-

The tragic discovery was made marked the close of the last century, rage is said to have produced by Carson's room boy who, acting

Portsmouth and Southsea have and gives Intimate glimpses of life successor to "Seventh Heaven," his

Instructions received earlier completed plans for a brilliant week as lived by numbers of New York's sensational success in the era of silent on then Four Hundred. The picture is pictures, and to have presented in the day, had come to call him. of royal festivity in July, when the said to athere closely to the story of powerful exposition of the problems of Shortly after 7.30 p.m. while Edith Wharton's book, which won the youth, able to achieve romance and other station ofßcers were al din. King will hold the Jubilee Review! Pulitzer Prize in 1020. and which was happiness in the most sordid surround-ner, a sound resembling a shot of the Fleet ut Spithead. Inter dramatized by Margaret Ayer inga. The cast supporting Miss Suila was heard. No particular atten- Bartı 4.4 starring vehicle for van and Montgomery in "Little Man, tion was paid to it untill a la Two hundred vessels, ranging Katharine Cornell. The Alm marks What Now?" Includes Alan Halo,

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She hated the man he knew she Force for thirteen years. Ho here--Nelson, Rodney, Malaya, "Forsaking All Others" loved--because his love quenched her came out from England after the men Barhom and poaalbly. KID MILLIONS The breath-taking combination of aming spirit! She was a helli-cat in disbanding of the famous "Black

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forty pounds of beada and from 9.45 to. 11.am, on May 7, in romantic comedy-drama presented on tempted-pura comedy and she turns in the screen in years; Albert-Rogell and the bodice, lavishly ornamented the King's Silver Jubiloc.

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