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# clock and then at Sally, her ymmate, lying in the next bed. ‘Better hustle,” she snapped, as jb climbed groaningly out of bed. "Ss almost eight” She grabbed a vel and turned water into the sh basin. “Have to be on time to teh a lot of jaws working up in all day! What a job!” up and iil Sally were both waitresses in # counter lunchroom at Stockton’s lite department store. , sitting up in bed, gazed, litht-eyed, through the one window the little room. eon, the sun is shining” she

Mabel's bitter tone mingled with ishes of water, “What difference 8 it make—behind the counter!” [his was Mabel’s perpetual grievp=that she had td work behind ltlinchroom counter. Mabel had big duess—wanted to marry a rich man | 8hd achieve a position in the world wt Bub what chance had a girl behind @ hated counter? The cheerful Sally ings quite tly. She made . bess at er Job and though it exactly what she would ave chosen, still it was a job and might lead to better things. "Some day . . .” she would phil‘osophize hopefully. But Mabel's lips would twist ornfully. “We'll never get any- % re behind that counter. All we "ever see is bums—and Stockton’s | truck drivers!” = “Ye might meet some one nice some day,” Sally soothed. “Yrhere? At Stockton 's? Pat charce!” ” ” »

HEN, one day, Mabel confessed that she had met a “big man.” He was married but, she declared gtoutly, she didn't care. ~ “Yrant to go out with us tonight?” . “Prank will gel a

looked | | at

s “No. » Sally spoke gently, but firmly. New York had taught her that many married men had girl friends like Mabel. Not the “right kind” of married men, of course. “Well, it's the only way I'll ever get anything,” Mabel said defiantly, + but n half-scared look came into her © @yes and Sally suspected that she \’t as hard as she claimed. | “But his wife—" Sally ventured. *8he’'s dumb!” Mabel snapped. s nk says she doesn’t know she's

or few weeks later, Mabel confided

is to take me away.” “#¥ou mean——" Sally stopped.

But Sally noticed that her temper 8 not improved. She was. ‘even irritable than she had been

» ” » IE next day there was a new girl at the gounter. ly lost patience with the inex< Menced waitress, and was put in eh a bad humor that, when a ue-eyed, pleasant-looking young in truck driver’s uniform ofher his order, she flew past im, ignoring the request. “Truck driver!” she muttered to lly. “A new one. That's all IT have chance to meet here!” She bent a pan of dish water. “Frank's —Well, I'm going! Tonight—" Bally moved away to lend a hand

culty. The blue-eyed young man pitckied her. attentively as she piled sweetly at the novice and iped her fill an order. *T'll ‘have the 25-cent lunch, ,” the young man said abrupt-

ly looked up. Blue eyes met

DAILY SHORT S Counter Affair

frou awoke . frowningly, as I& usual, and glanced first at | blushing

“Frank’s crazy about me.

ibel shrugged, and said no more.

Mabel.

} the new girl, who seemed to be in.

tue re. She droped he pe, A few later, Sally was

minutes hurrying along with the the tray bearing the truck driver's order. His eyes

were glued on her face as she came |

toward him. ... CRASH! The tray fell from Sally's hands:

as the new girl collided with her.|

and | Frightened, the girl started to cry. Mabel, on the spot in an instang, loudly, harshly berated her. Sally stooped to clean up the mess on the

The manager came running. He halted Mabel in the midst of her tirade. “I am sorry, Miss Pelman — but you may get your check from the cashier. I have had too many complaints about you lately. And your. attitude now has created an absolutely uncalled-for disturbance.” “Oh!” Bally said quickly. “It was my fault—" “It wasn’t!” Mabel cut in, then furned haughtily away. “I was quittin’ tonight, anyway. The new girl sobbed quiveringly. ; ¥® =» = ALLY, kneeling once more over the debris on the floor, saw a man’s hand, close to hers, pick up a plece of broken coffee mug. She raised her head. Blue eyes met blue eyes—

“Oh! You shouldn't come in here!” she protested. “Say, angel, do you belieye in love at first sight?” “I—I—don't know—" Sally’s hand trémbled. The truck driver's fingers closed gently over hers. “1 do, angel! Now and forever! Listen—I got a pull with Old Man— J. J. Stockton, I mean. I'll get your friend’s job back, if she wants it. Will you let me take you out tonight?” !I—I—don’'t know” Sally said again. a “Gee, angel, you're sweet! I have to go now, but I'll tell you lots of things—tonight. Meet me outside the store, after work?” “Yes,” ‘Sally said.

» # ed

ABEL was laughing, hysterically, and tears were streaming down her cheeks. She-held out a newspaper to Sally, pointing. “Read that——" She leaned against the counter, covering her face with her hands. The new girl stood near, observing.

Sally read silently: “Enraged Wife Shoots Philandering Husband. . Mr. Frank , prominent

business man, father of two children, was preparing to elope with an unknown girl friend . . .” Sally put her hand on Mabel’s shoulder, “That——that nice truck driver said he could get your job back} Mabel—" Mabel laughed, gratingly. “I'll need it——now!” Then, sharply, “Truck driver? . What's he got to do with it?” : “A lot, I'd say.” The new girl edged over confidingly. “Didn't you know? That was J. J. Stockton’s

50 THE END.

1936, by United Peature Syndicate, Inc.

SCHOOL HEAD CHOSEN

Lawrence County Gets New Superintendent After Resignation, Times Special BEDFORD, June 30.—Clyde Ingle, Needmore High School principal, is to succeed Ralph Watson as county school superintendent. Mr. Watson resigned ta accept a position in the State Department of Public. Instruction.

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