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YESTERDAY Anthony tells Bee ° ahout himself, how his died when he was still in school, how hi father's friend educated him. Bee i most admits her real identity, but | fearing the knowledge ni ht kill Anthony's love for her. she does tell him about Grandfather Huntington, mentioning no names, A p ‘ceman finally ousts them from the nark. CHAPTER SIXTEEN IN THE MORNING, Beatrice regarded her black store dress with dissatisfaction, before she put it on. want to look beautiful for } i “I want a those at home.” sses, hanging in the in the apartment on Park Ave. were as far away as if they were on some other continent. What time did you get in last nigh Toby demanded, from the Kitchenet where she was pouring 0 . flee. Terry staved until prac- . ‘ : \ AINE = MEE: oo, dawn and still you eidn't “I think he's getting overconfident, Captain!” “ER rv Ro aye, CARLENE he yawned. NA V/ HENLEY, THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson || VALLEY. ED;

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TORY viciously, keeps Jack Simon so kuy his wife off with alimony. They keep cuiting prices, threatening to| hi somewhere else, and that would ruin him. A lot of the betes upstairs are his “Oh, it's a mess! Vera's loyal, Jake's really a swell guy, if weird Anyway, that's just one of the that makes me Late Huntington's! What that

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ter dre would do to Anthony, finding out lout of the fitting rooms, placating a who she was. Would he hate her customer in the first booth and anfor deceiving him? Please, please, other in the sixth. She peered God, don't let Anthony take the through the curtains as one cusattitude that I've been amusing my- tomer turned for inspection in a self at his expense! sport dress, murmured, “That's good She Knew, too, that Anthony on you,” and fled to see how the 2 ; wasn't the kind of man who would woman in velvet was coming on fully. “I didn’t know Huntington's enjoy marrying a girl with mil- | Instead of taking only two or three was sue as ogre. What else does lions, possible dresses into the fitting! the store do? . # 8 n rooms with each customer, she took | “It would take me a week. Geiz,| Nysg DANE lined the salesgirls Six or seven, so the woman could |

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those hardworking saps in the office, who do Bruce Sheldrake's job for him at about one-twelfth the salary. And manufacturers like Jake, pushed to the wall because Huntington's pares prices to the bone.” “Mavbe that's the management,” ! Beatrice suggested slowly. “Perhaps the people who own Huntington’s don't know about—" “You mean the Duchess?” Toby inquired shortly. “Huh! That dame’s so busy keeping an Italian prince or whatever he is, she hasn't time to find out about all the girls her own age and just as good as she is, too, who live on nothing

up beside the wrapping desk, first thing that morning. “I want an improvement around here in the care of the stock!” she| announced. “We've kept two stock girls busy, just because the salesgirls haven't made it their busiiess to pick up dresses, to bring

| them back out of the fitting rooms,

to pin back belts and make sure about clips and buttons. This can't go on! The office has withdrawn one stock girl this morning, and we'll have to manage by ourselves. | I've seen girls standing in front of cases talking when they might have been taking care of their stock.” |

splurge in trying on and be so busy | she wouldn't notice the salesgiri's| absence. . ” ”n » OTHER GIRLS got the same idea. The result was that by afternoon the fitting rooms were crowd- | ed with discarded dresses, and the | work of arranging the stock was even heavier than before. “The nerve, firing a stock girl!” | Toby muttered, as she passed Beatrice in the narrow aisle behind the curtains. Miss Ryan, a stack of dresses cver her arm, bumped into them. “Oh, sorry.” She leaned for a moment against the partition, her hands over her eyes. “I'm so tired.

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[ VOU KNOW, 00P I SURE HATE TO HEAD BACK ,— YEAH, BUT : TO THE TWENTIETH WHAT TH' HECK. CENTURY EMPTY- [ BOOM IS DEAD ” AIN'T HE?

FOLLOW THAT TRAIL! OL’ OSCAR MUST NOT HAVE BEEN BUMPED OFF IN THAT CRASH

Her eves singled out Beatrice. “Any girl who can’t do the routine work as well as make sales is

and work like slaves so she can run eround to Palm Springs and Hawaii and South America. Did you see that in the paper? She went to South America.” Beatrice's throat “We'll be late.” As she hung up Ler things in her

IT just can’t keep on stooping and {hanging without getting dizzy.” | She swayed, and Toby cried, “Hey!” not worth her salary. Remember! / A moment later. the dresses That will be all.” slipped from Miss Ryan's arm into The girls scattered to the cases,|; heap on the floor, and the girl arimly. Beatrice saw Miss Getz) pitched forward. fingering the chain on her glasses | “Bee! She's fainted!” she longed for and dreaded nervously. “You've always taken | (To Be Continued) the moment when she would sez beautiful care of the stock, Miss | Anthony. Her faca burned, re-| Getz” she whispered defiantly. “I|(All events. names and Sharacters in this membering their kiss. Would it be think she has her nerve! And how BO TS ey ue the same, when she saw him again? can we wait on customers propShe thought, too, of what Toby erly if we've got to do stock girls'| had said. Soon now she'd have to] work?” | end this masquerade. She'd have| “She-sh!” pleaded Miss Geta. talent show tonight in the school to do something about improving “She's looking.” ‘auditorium. Jackie Ferris, Wayne the management of the store. | Budget Fashions was very busy, Grady and Mary Ruschhaupt are in But then she wondered what it!that morning. Beatrice ran in and chgrge of arrangements,

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