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Chapter V. _ On the afternoon of my first day's ‘hunt for something to do 1 took a position offered me in s wo‘ man's tailoring establishmsuui I was to get $5 a week for pasting samples of cloth In a book, ad- d-essing ‘ envelopes, and waning "Don other people in the establish- ment who were more experienced than 1. I think perhaps I might Ila-vs found something whersl‘ would not have to work ,4, 1mg

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P91115118 l mlsht even have a little "l0" "IWBY- But since my mo- i118!‘ lit!!! t0lll me l might wgrk I "l" "My 1° lIB8lI1—to be up and at It. I took the first chance I could-get. Also, with the selfish. 1195B 01' Youth. I did not stop to rmvlize it was my duty to gun] 3.3 mlwll 8B Possible that I might be a Peal lwlll to my mother rather than s drag.

I went home that night triumph- ant. And mother, dear souli, was too kindhearted to throwany cold W816!‘ on my happiness. She did not point out, as she might have, that by the time I had- bought my commutation ticket. and my lunch and the better clothes ' I would need I would have little or nothing left. Instead mother told me she thought it was quite wonderful that I should have been able Io obtain anything at all after but one day's search. She cheered and encour- aged me.

“Do you think you will be able to get along all right without ma In the daytime?" I asked mother.’ "Is It going to be too hat-d for you?" ‘

"No, wlcarie," answered - mother quietly. "And, anyhow, .1 don't want to be a drag on you. (liars will help me, and you can start out In the world and, perhaps, If you work hard and learn nil you can, they will raise your wages and presently you will be a great, big help I can depend on."

“I'm going to get you servants and ‘servants and servants, to wait on you mother-when l’m rich!” I told her childishly as '1 flung my arms about her.

ISO now began my new life. Hen- ven knows 1 was accustomed enough to hard work, so that my long day of petty tasks" did not weary me. ‘Indeed, II was stimulat- ed. I was thrown In contact for the fir-st time In my life with girls of my own age. And 1 could observe the EXDuTlGIICGII ssleswomen In the establishment, the typlsts and

this, my new Iife,_that word "fir- Bil" lyllified for me the worst that might happen to a girl.

"Well, l’m not fired exactly." she told m-e. "but It amounts to the some thing. I've_got to glvo up my job. It. makes me sick! No sooner do I get started with a little mon- sy ahead than there It is! The same old thing!"

"What!" I asked. fizzled. "Wlhy, there's going to~he an- other baby, of course!" she said. "And my husband Isn't worth the gunpowder to blow him away! I iell you. It just makes me sick!" “Why. Sarah!" I said stupidly. “I didn't know you were married. Have you got babies and have to work too?"

' “Of course I have?’ the woman told ma. "Its. the third one coming. My husband keeps the roof over our beards. but’! don't KIIOW what we would eat If -I didn't work-”

I-Ier eyes grew mfsly for a mo- ment.

"I-nrd!" she said. "Didn't I think he was handsome when he come to our town selling buttons? All the fairy tales he told me, and I believed theme-poor boo ! I didn't know life ‘was like this! I-t was all love and bread and cheese nnd kisses then. Let mv3,tell you something, Neil Birney—" she ended" suddenly and her voice rose. " Don't you ever 89i- mflrllefl ——n.ot unless you get a rich guYl l tell you, you're a fool If you do!"

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ggnfly, ‘It's p, weak, selfish life for anybody to ibe 1110119 l-n ll"! worId-dlilirticularly a wmllflll- l "my say I wish your father had been different but its better for a mo man to nrarry and live than to he too afraid of_ life to risk anything? ‘You're dust good-natured, mo t-her,’ I told her with a kiss. “Youga an angel! ~Im not. 1 think I'll stsv bv myself just“ the same." ‘We'll ree, dearie," mother sn-

slwered.

It. was at about this time, too. that I caught my first glimpse of one of the possible alternatives-Of‘ fared to a girl who does not wish to marry. It was a day or llwo af- ter my talk with Sarah that I first began noticing the telephonegirl. She was vorypretty. I-Ier hair was soft and lblond, and the two silver hands of the telephone instrument which she wlore 0n her head made her profile. as she bent tower her switchboard, almost cfassic. -not'iced, too, how prettliy she was dressed. At first I was attracted by the color and simplicity of her clothes. Then I realized they must be very expensive. She wore sev- eral diamond rings on her slender, futile looking hands. I used tn steal glances at her, watching her fascinated when I thought that she did not know it. She was, how- ever, a shrewd young person. Ono day she startled me enormously by saying:

"Well, kid, what are you staring at?‘ when I thought that she ‘was too nibsorbed iu know that I was anywhere near her. » '

"I ‘beg your pardon," I stammer- ed.

"It's all right, she answered. "Have another look! It won't cost you anything!’

“Yesj I said very slowly. "l! know." Cllflptr-r VI . "Neil Birney," lsaralt had said l0

mo, "ymfre a. fool marry!

lAnd the sum of my own life's elf-l perience told me she must Ibe. rlillll“ I pondered on ‘her words that night as I went home. ‘Sarah .8 saleswoman In the women's ‘ta-flor- Ing establishment where I worked‘ has told me that she must BlVB “D

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telephone girl. I could watch .the elegant women customers who came to ordersults. I was getting myfirst peep at the worlmalthough l was vcry shy at first. It was weeks before I answered any one beyond a monosyllable. -

I came in the morning, did tasks that were required of and took m Iun

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her position because she was t0 have a baby. This would he her_ third little one. Husband, she- said, was unable to earn money enough to support, his family com- fortably. Thus she had to wor . and

“Th; Lord only knows," she had concluded, “where the money's to

_ _ , fl‘ plied ' of infirm" paper; hack ‘fnto- the ship, ping department a-t the luncheon hour. There I sat by myself and ate. I watched the other-girls from beneath lowered lids as they form- ed chattering groups and went out to their midday meal. I envied them, not because of the better feed they had. "I wanted somebody

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to Iaugl: and joke with me. I thought how fine It would ‘ be to have a girl friend with "whom I might walk arm in arm.

At night‘! hurried home. 1 had

to get there before father return- sd. Mother and I had not told him as yet that I was working. And I knew, too, how wenrv mother was by that time of the tiny. I wanted to be in time- to help h-er cook the dinner. After we had eaten I had the dishes toiwash, baby Jane to soothe to sleep and the other child- ren to help with their lessons and tuck Into bed. It. was a pretty hard life for s. girl of seventeen. '

But at the office I was coming

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time! lit not makes me sick! It's ‘ Andwhen. otter my own day's work, I hurried home and saw mother so fruiililie scarcely oould straighten her ,wea\k spine, bending over the’ hot kitchen stove, little Fred tugging a-t her-skirts and the’ baby crying aln a clothes basket‘ near her, my own thoughts echoed Sarah's words. Later in the even- ing, when the children wereJn bed, Iispoke to my mother of that ,whlch was uppermost in my mind.

“Mother? I asked, "aren't you sorry you married? Don't you wish you didn't hsve—us?"

Mother paused before she unsw- ered.

"Well, I wouldn't say that, Nellie, girl," she told me. “It hurts me very cruelly that I can't give you more, and II feel sometimes with the life you lead Ivwas iwiclred to bring you here at all, ilyut I couldn't say I wish I hadn't married. It's nat- ural for a girl to love some young man, and it's natural for young

out of my shell. I was beginning tentatively to make friends. I be- gan Io sort the girls, out in my own mind; to notice. those whom I in- stinciivsiy liked; several by whom I was repelled. My first definite impression of any of these new people by whom I was surround- ed came after I had been working about three or four weeks. I sat eating my solitary uncheon when one of the sslesyvomen come out Io ‘wash her hands. I saw that she had been crying. I

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“What the matter, Sarah?" asked. "Don't you feel well?" "No, I don't!" she snapped back; "and what's rnore, I got to quit work."

people to marry. Sometimes a girl has Ibad luck. She marries a man who doesn't turn out -very well. But, Nellie, dear,.it's only fair to say that many ,a man has

bad luck, too. ‘He marries some girl who isn't willing to work for him, or who is extravagant. or maybe she is wicked and likes other men. You ssn't tell, dear. We all halve to take our chance." I thought. this over a, few mom- outs.

‘Well, I\don't think I'll take a chance, then, mother," I said. “lm newer going to marry at all! I I've bad enough taking care of bab- ies with Fred and Clara and Janie.

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She gave me a smile that was In- credibly sweet in spite oi’ the rough way in which she expressed her- self. "I was thinking how pretty you are,’ I said shyly, drawing closer. “Those silver bands on your head and all. I like to see your rings sparkle.”

Thegiri flushed slightly.

"Want to see my new one?" she risked, and from her ifund took a finely wrought platinum band in at pure white dia-

"‘My!" I said “That's very beau- ‘ ilf_ul! IDo you mind i!‘ I put it 0:1 i my finger!

, "Go to it!" said the telephone

Jo-‘tadre care of us this girl cordially.

‘I slipped the rings on my hand.

mo Imwh of a at-nlssle: that’ a allw Then I held out my arm to admire

It ibetter.

"Worth a cool five hundred," tho girl told me.

I stared at her. -

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money in all her life. .

"Yes," said the girl and nodded. "1 always twke diamonds. They're as good as money In the bank. A good white stone you can sell any time. Other jewels are fads. Sometimes they're worth more: sometimes they're worth less. But n girl's s fool to take anything but diamonds! I tell you, they're just like money In the bank!"

"This was given to you?" I ask ed, owed. "Do you mean to say your father gave you a beautiful ring like that?"

"IVIIy "father!" repeated the tele- phone girl. “iSaylwhat nre you try- ing to do—kid mo? One of my friends gave it tome, of course.’

“My goodness!" ‘I whispered tfllllfi overcome, “you are lucky to have friends like that!"

WEDNESDAY Chapter VII

I stood staring at the ‘Iiamond ring ‘that belonged to the telephone girLQSlte had permitted me to slip it upon my own finger. She had just hold one that o, "friend" had given It to her. I tors my glance from the jewel to meet her eyes.

"A friend!" I repeated sftenher half puzzled. half slppaI-Ied.

"Look here," said this young person. “what are you trying to do -—kld mo?’ She smiled he ravish- ingrsmiio not unkindiy. "You don't suppose I mean a lady friend do you?" she added coquettlshly. "It's my Ihtest—my gentleman friend!‘

. I -wns still staring at. the long. beautiful lines of her expensive gown; at her little high-healed

slipper with its tantalizing glimpse 0f flesh through tightly drawn silk which flashed above It, I was ign- orant of life. lBlIt I was not Innoc- ent. I was ibu-t seventeen. Still, I had been using my eyes during the few weeks since 1 had entered the employ of the women's tailoring establishment. I was beginning to put uwo and two together. I be- gun to guess whence came the jewels of the girl who sat before mo. Bu-t I was still child enough to put pny thought quite crudely in- to words.

“You mean," I asked the toler- hono girl, "that somg man gave you that. beautiful ring?" ‘

‘Sure!’ agreed my now-found friend. "W-hy not!" She leashed s, ‘little. ‘There ain't anything won: with my face is there?" ~ I

‘Ext you are not ensued to mar- ry him?" I protested. "It's just somebody who-lwho-J I stumb- led, searching for a word and caught at the phrase she herself had given mo, “It's somebody who Isd just friends with you?" I ask- e . ' . “Sure? agreed the girl again. ‘Toddlo on kid-I got to mind in)‘ switch-board." ’

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lhavq seen and talked with s girl ' who is not good." '

I puzzled over it. The charming picture at the switchboard did not. correspond with what I‘had been told about. girls of this kind. The telephone operator certainly did not look dissipated. Nor were there sibout. her any of the signs

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land certainly she was far from Weeping over her unfortunate lot. The thought ol her fascinated rue. I found myself all the rest of the ¢l'\ milking excuses to pass the if-lcphone switchboard. I wanted lo ask more. And as a matter of fact, thnugn I ll"! girl, because she was really tracted me. ‘My heart was drawn to her. All In all, she was r/ne of "will Ilwlefilly unmorai and cheer- ful young women who is perhaps the most dangerous companion an ignorant Elrl may choose.

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“Shy? she-said late In the after- "Oon. “you look at me the way a 00w stands and looks at some- thllls over the fence!‘ What's YOIW name?" -

"Nell Blflley." I answered, lac- °"_"‘=1lly. “What's yours?‘

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div face flushed quickly.

YQ-‘lf’ I said, "I would. I want ‘r3 talk to you some more; I Iikep u.’ '

“RIgIiI-o!" agreed Dora. go tomorrow.‘

Ami we did. And this in spite of the glances of the other girls. I had not been conscious of It be- fore, but suddenly I realized now the various young women In the es- iatblishlnent left Dora, to herself. Perhaps I had never noticed It be- cause she seemed to care so little. Now, however, .I)y accepting her inviizliion, I definitely left my own sphere and entered hers.

As “'1' talked together in the dressing room, adjusting our huts and cunts, I saw the girls nudge ouch other. It‘ didn't worry mi: much, If u friendship with Dora mean: that r must Ihe cut off from the other, It seemed worth the price. Dora led the way to an In- expensive restaurant In the neigh- borhooil.

“My treat," she exiplnineil, "Wo won't have any angunleni on that score.’ '

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