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by Laura Bou Brookman

Then it's settled. Drop in this afternoon and have a talk with Mr. Cunningham. He'll tell you

moro about the work in detail. Mr. Cun- ningham was in the mill with my father, I'm sure you'll like working with him. About salary"

CHAPTER XLVIII

the mill, for having been pushed would be much more helpful, from tho Letters, telegrams and a sheaf of alde and ignored, for the mis-management's point of view, than on mimeographed | pages wore aprond representations and falsehoods, That outsider could. Well-what do you over the big desk. The ornamental chur had uttered amoothly. The think of it," Gale said slowly, "but paper weight and the silver ash try man was a thief, filling his pockets at ol, I'd like to try!" had been pushed aside to make way the expense of hundreds of hard- for a folder bulkily stuffed with working employees, na

well as of manuscript. A trado directory and Brian and his mother. Thatcher had two railroad time tables iny just be-done even wome things. There was yond. In the centre of the desk, on the death of Steve Meyers. No one top of everything else, was a sheet was sure of Thatcher's part in that of paper, neatly typed with columns but he had saved himself considerable of figures.

embarrassmont by getting out of the The memorandum pad was scrawl-country. The investigation of that ed with notations. The pens in their outrage was going on quietly. It was holder were moist with ink. And the likely to bring Indictments. Brian telephonú was ringing.

was determined to do everything he could to bring the guilty ones to justice.

Brian Westmore turned from the Agures he had been reading and took up the telephone, "Yes," he said crisply. "I want that New York call

There was one consolation he en- Joyed. Brian Inew that Thatcher, ne soon as you can get it. I want for all his tilevery and money to talk to McNeal himself, Yos, grubbing, had been able to take little that's right. Keep trying until you with him on his hurried departure, get him."

The man who had worshipped gold had lost his idol,

The telephone snapped back into place. Briin picked up the sheet of The telephone on Brian's desk rang figures again, read them. He reached | again and he picked it up. He Ilaten- for a pencil, made name notes on a cil, anid, "Oh, yon, Ask her to come pad and studied them thoughtfully in, will you?"

It had been two weeks, exactly, since Brian had moved into the office thn hnd bean Thatcher's. There were two lines of black lettering on the door, leading into the office. The lower one was just as it had been, but the one above had been changed. The lettering on the door now

When a moment later, the door opened and Gale Hraderaan stood an❘ the threshold Brian was entirely the executive, clent-eyed, impersonal,

The figura ho named took Gala's breath. It was more money than sho had had at any timo since she had been working. More money than sho had dreamed oft

She said, "I can't tell your how grateful I am!"

Brian smiled for the first time dur- Ing the interview. "Then don't try,” he said.

"But I must! I want to tell you, too, that I'm sorry for the things I nid, that night you came and offered to help Phil. I didn't mean them. I'm terribly sorry."

Brian cut in

Forget about it. It doesn't matter,"

"But it does!" He was eyeing her closely. "Yen menn—7"

Galo said, beneath lowered lashes, "I mean I know you were trying to Ginlo nid, "You sent for me?" help us." She hesitated, then went "Tex. Won't you come in?”

en, "You've done so much for everyone She closed the door behind her. else. I hope what's happened isn't

Westmore, general mand, Brian Brian, without rising, malloned her to going to spoll your happiness."

a chair. He went on, "Yes, I wanted. "What in the world are you talking

about?".

in talk to you. We're making a nom- ber of changes in the mill, as you may know→re-arranging schedules, Gule coloured. "I was trying to adding employees, letting some go." any hope Miss Thatcher's going

away isn't going to change things.. mean about your marriage."

Gale podited. "I want to thank you, whe snis, "for taking my brother back.".

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Brian stored. "Marriagel" he ex- claimed, "What marringe ?"

The two weeks had been trying, strenuous. Brian had tackled them manfully, had fought his way through, There had been difficultieserious ones-until it bad been demonstrated, clearly and beyond dispute, that the policies Rebert Thatcher had been carrying on in the mill were entirely Brian waved this aside. 11. own, without the knowledge orderstand he's in good workman. ronsent of the owners. There had need more of them. We're taking been scenes with Brian's mother, back as many as possible who have hysterical and tearful. There had been let out in the last six months. been long sessions with the man from We'll need them. There's going to be "She told me. She said the wedding Washington whose arrival and subse-work for them."

was going to be in June. That's why quent petivities had caused Thatcher's Gale knew what he said was true.coming #o noon-" sudden flight.

Mary Cassidy was back in the mill Brinn Interrupted. “When didi all Thatcher and his daughter, so re- now. So were dozens of others, this happen?" he asked. “When did parts had it, were in Canada. Or. by They had been returning, those who Vicky tell you that?", this time they might be somewhere had lost their Jobs, ever since Brion "The

"Why yours and Miss Thatcher's." "You think I'm going to marry Vicky Thatcher! Where did you ever get an idea-like that?"

else. Brian, knowing what he did of i had taken command. Wages has been my house you and she came to

Thatcher's affairs, was certain that, increased, tou, having made the trip out the

country safely, there was little kell. Brian looked down, at the page of bond that they would return. At least figures on his desk, quickly glanced not for a long, while, Robert That-up. That brings me to the reason I ther had exercised his usual shrewd wanted to see you," he said. "Miss He was on his feet' now. "Listene sense concerning his personal welfare Groves, the former personnel director, when he and Vicky hnd boarded a left several days ago. There's no one privately chartered pinne two weeks in her place. I've been wondering if before.

you'd like it."

That part of the affair was probably for the though Brian had not thought so at the time. He had rageil bitterly because he was able to face Robert Thatcher and tell hint, in blazing.

unforgettable language, exactly what he thought of him. Liar, hypocrite—they were mild worda for a scoundrel like Thatcher,

Brion yearned for vengeance for the way he himself had been treated at

"You mean?"

"I'm asking your"-Brian frowned slightly-"If you'd like to take over the work of the personnel director. suppose you know something of what it means-interviews with the women employees, keeping elowly in touch with them, working out pro- blems that need adjustment. It's work that calls for tact and under

landing. I think you might step Into the place and handle it in a way thint í

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES IS MORE deadly THAN THE MALE! Frankenstein, Dracula and other screen monsters pale by comparison with this fiendish, decadent woman. She's the deadliest menace the screen has ever known!

Introducing a star...already fömous for her sinistar ralos

"I'm

not

"That night- Brian ultered a sharp excinination. "The little liar!" he said, "Why, she's as bad as her father. The little liar! And so Vicky

na been responsible for nil thief" Gale," he kald, earnestly, engaged to Vicky Thatcher. I never have been. There isn't anybody-- naglody in the world, do you under- stand?I'll ever be engaged to except you. I told you befure that I love you and I mean it. with all my heart!"

I love you, darling.

She raised eyes that were shining. She said, "Oh, Brian-!"

It was inter that Gale said, "I can

hardly believe everything's happened the way it has. It's nii so wonderful." "Everything's going to be wonder

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you and me. Uh, that reminds me—” Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being Ho paured, then went on, assuming landed at their risk into the hazardous a pose of mock dignity: Mas Hen- and/or extra hazardous Godowns of derson, I have assumed the inestim The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf able privilege of offering you my hand & Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or in honourable marriage. May I have from the wharves delivery may be your heart?"

Gale shook her head. "I don't see how I could give it to you," she said. "I don't soo how I possibly could, bo cause you've had it for so long!"

Ho answered exactly as she had hoped he would.

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