Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1932 — Page 5

FEB. 27, 1932

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BfcGIN HERE TODAY Beautiful ELLEN RO6SITKR. a saleaslri In Barclay* department store, ■work* nights as a dance hall hostess. Bhe lives with her mother MOLLY, her elder sister MYRA, and her young brother MIKE. „;>e IS in love with LARRY HARROW"A'rE. an artist. Larry is engaged to ELIZABETH BOWES, a debutante. STEVEN BARCLAY. 57. and her employer. loves Ellen. Myra and Molly openly favor Barclay and Ellen quarrels with them over this partiality. Because of gossip at the store she decides to see Bgrclav no more. Without Ellen's knowledge. Mollv invites the older man to dinner, borrowing money for the occasion. Ellen is f ngrv and is still further displeased when Barclay gives Mike a much desired bicycle. That night Barclay asks Ellen to marry him and she refuses. Pride will not permit her to tell him she loves Larrv. Unwittingly she leaves Barclay with the hope of winning her. .VOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER NINETEEN < Continued) “We won’t be living here long if wo can’t get the rent together. Mr. Farnum looks in a mood to carry our furniture down to the street p rsonally. Just how much money have we anyway?” “I borrowed S2OO on the insurance. There should be lots left. My P"<ketbook’s on the bureau.” Molly went to sleep again. When the pocketbook was opened it appeared that she had been unduly optimistic. She had managed the r y before to do away with more t! an $l6O. Ellen could not hide her eonsteri tion. How were she and Myra 1o bring the vitally necessary ins' ranee to date again? But the present problem was the rent. By emptying her pocketbook and Myra's, they succeedeed in piecing together the S6O. It left them exactly sl2 for the week's food and carfare. Ellen saw that it was out of the question for her to resign her position. It would take at least a week to find another. Even the possible $25 from Dreamland Saturday would not be sufficient to tide them over. CHAPTER TWENTY DAYS passed. Difficult days for Ellen. Days when her efforts to meet insurance payments, milk bills and butcher bills seemed hardly worth the effort. Days when she needed sleep and rest and leisure and felt that the burden of the double job, so vitally necessary for the present, was too much to bear. She had not broken with Steven. She could not. She saw him in the •fore and occasionally outside— Usually at luncheon. He did not speak again of marriage, but in a thousand ways he unconsciously revealed to her what was in his heart. There were times those hurried, flurried days when she forgot her problems, delicious, thrilling times made of the stuff of dreams. Those were the hours she spent with Larry. In vain Molly had protested, had wept, had become angry. Ellen persisted in her determination to see him when she chose. One Monday evening the quarrel between her and Molly had come to an ugly climax. Larry had arrived at the apartment. unannounced, and Molly had asked him to leave. Afterward there had been a spirited scene between mother and daughter .resulting in a victory of sorts for Ellen. At any rate Molly had stopped her visible campaign against Larry.

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What was in her mind the girl did not know. On Tuesday morning Ellen wqnt to the basement lockers at Barclay's to hang up her hat and coat. Absorbed in her usual morning weariness, she was slow to notice the group of saleswomen clustered about the mirror heading the row of lockers. As she removed her hat, she heard her name spoken. Ellen stared at the whispering group and saw that Mrs. Bondy was in the center. a a a THE girl’s face blazed. Her throat felt dry and her hands began to shake. She sta.ied slowly toward the group, recognized Jenny Elkins, and saw that Jenny was watching her progress with a fascinated fear. None of the others perceived the white-faced, angry girl until she was upon them. "Perhaps you’ll let me share the story,’’ Ellen said softly. “It seems only fair, since you're discussing me.” Consternation smote the group. No one moved or spoke. Jenny's compact clattered from her hand. She dared not stoop. The others were embarrassed, ashamed, frightened. Mrs. Bendy saw her power slipping. She made an effort to regain it. "Suppose you tell us, dearie,” she remarked. "We'd all love to know what it's like being an old man’s darling.” For a moment the issue hung in the balance. Then one girl laughed in nervous hysteria. The others caught her up. A wave of high, cruel laughter beat at Ellen’s ears and drove the blazing color from her face. She saw that her cause was lost. An almost overpowering impulse to announce that she was engaged to Steven swept over. her. It would be a way to stop that laughter and wipe the complacent smile from Mrs. Bondy’s face. Ellen hesitated, made her decision and gave the giggling group a proud, scornful glance as she moved off without another word. Her thoughts were spinning round and round. Her heart seethed with rage and humiliation. # a a SHE took the elevator to Steven’s office. She waited until the thumping of her heart subsided before she knocked. Steven himself opened the door. His look of surprise faded into delighted welcome. Then he saw that she was unstrung and wretched and he came close to her, drawing her inside. , "What is it?” he asked, concerned and peremptory. Ellen began to tremble. Exhausted from the force of anger and humiliation. close to tears as she heard the anxiety in his voice, she felt a subtle, almost overpowering weakness. Unconsciously she tightened her grip on his hands and as she leaned forward her troubled face came close to his. The gesjjure had its immediate effect. Barclay’s heart beat high with sudden, illogical hope. Quite simply he drew her into his arms. At once Ellen was herself again. "No ( no,” she whispered.

Hope left his face and pain came there. His arms dropped. He moved backward and a step away from her. “What is it?” he repeated unsteadily. For a moment Ellen did not respond. She knew what she had done and fumbled wretchedly for a way to mend the pain she had inflicted. But there was no way and the very silence served to heighten her memory and his memory of that lost instant. "Please don’t think I’m always coming to .you with' trouble, - ’ she said at last abruptly. "You know, I’d never think that,” he interrupted gently. “Sit down,” my dear.” She sat down. All her careful phrases failed her. She thought she would die before his look. "Go on,” he said more urgently. His brown eyes were upon her face. "Because something something a little unpleasant has happened,” she faltered desperately, “I w’ould like to know .if I may be transferred from cretonne to another department.” “I've been thinking of that myself.” he said at once, thrusting far into the background his own thoughts, his own hopes. Ellen saw with relief that he was businesslike once 'more, composed and competent. “You’re lost there,” he went on. “I’ve been think of another job for you.” “What sort of a job?” "I had already prepared a memorandum for you. You’re so prickly with pride that I want you to know I haven’t created the job on the spur on the moment.” ana HE drew three typed sheets of paper clipped together from a drawer and slid them across the desk. Ellen read them, wondering. The first was from Lorene Elcott, the buyer of misses’ dresses.. She needed an assistant buyer and asked for a suggestion. The second, from Steven to her, recited Ellen’s qualifications and asked for the buyer’s approval. Across the bottom of the sheet Lorene had scrawled “O. K.—let me see her.” The third contained a brief request that Ellen call in Steven's office. “These buyers are emperors and empresses in their own fields,” Steven explained as Ellen looked up at him. “Miss Elcott telephoned me about fifteen minutes ago asking you to come see her some time this morning.” Ellen glanced again at the slips In her hand. A faint color rose in her face. It was the dream of every salesgirl to become a buyer, a dream few realized. Buyers moved in a world apart from ordinary employes. They came and went almost at will. The girl felt an unexpected thrill at the idea of becoming included in such a select group, a thrill that was colored by the thought of leaping over the heads of her fellows and escaping the reach of their cruel tongues. “Don't think I’m impertinent,” she said with youthful awkwardness,” but did you suggest me for this job because you thought I was qualified to be a buyer or because —you liked me?” “I was afraid you’d ask that,” he responded with a rueful, confused laugh. “I’ll try to be honest. I think it was a mixture of the two. “You’re intelligent and you have taste and that qualifies you. As for the rest, I did suggest you because I like you—although that’s a pale way of putting it.” Ellen flushed furiously. “You’re to understand there are no strings to the job,” he remarked suddenly, flushing in turn. “But you do understand that, don't you?” a a a HE longed to tell her, he wanted her to know, that she held a plage in his life apart from any other human being. He wanted her to know that it was not a prosaic, workaday job

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that he desired to lay in her lap but everything beautiful and lovely In the world. Jewels she should have—jewels and furs and clothes. He wanted to wrap her in the garment of his love and lay the at her feet. But he lacked the words to say those things. Ellen suspected dimly what it must have cost him to say so little. How easy and simple he had made her path and with what infinite graciousness he had done so! In her gratitude and relief she was near saying just then the words that he longed to hear.

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The beast rose now upo i its hind legs and dragged her from the cave to the moonlit recess without. At the same instant Pan-at-lee saw a figure rise abovte the outer edge of the niche. The great beast saw it too, and growled ominously, though it still kept its hold upon her hair. Crouched, it waited an attack, its horrid growls reverberating through the gorge. The creature now facing it crouched also and growled—as hideously as the other. Pan-at-lee ''trembled—knowing full well she was lost l • • • . ■

“I know you wouldn't tie strings to anything you offered.” she said at last tremulously, feeling for the second .time a subtle, treacherous weakness running through her body. * I could never think that. I know you’re the kindest man I've ever met.” The kindest man she had ever met? Steven would have preferred something else, perhaps. But she had said that. His dark eyes lighted. He leaned across the desk that separated them. “Then you won't be afraid of me any more, Ellen?” 1 “No.”

'You won’t suspect my motives' again?” “No,” she murmured. • How grateful she was just then! How much she admired and respected him. Victory was in Steven’s hands. As he reached out to grasp it the telephone on the desk rang shatteringly. The moment was gone and the spell that had entrapped the girl ■ was broken. Though he removed the receiver and did not answer, Barclay saw I that Ellen was relieved, saw that j the telephone had robbed him of hts triumph. He was too wise to

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nervously answered, she pronounced herself satisfied. There had been no discussion of salary between Ellen and Btven, but Lorene had her Instructions and Ellen, naive and Ignorant, was stupefied with delight to learn that 1 as an assistant buyer she would receive SSO a week. That was S3O more than salesgirls In cretonnes received. “Are you sure it's SSO a week?” j Ellen managed to say. (To Be Continued)

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