Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-17

/ 'fi'i il'Ih' II. SOt'b.G MISS If,E' Ter.
! Tiff you aren't COCO for ,y-u Gitv
pounds at a pinch thi Is you've treated
I me very cruel"
/ Jessie's friend, with whom the ship
was to he started in pa -n"rshir. WIS a
Miss WalSa. At first J-s.!a thought uatG-
! ing of the idea. but gradually Miss Walsh
had infiamed her with an enthusiasm akin
to her own.
You bring in hundr. / and nifty cap
ital, and it shall hn share and share alike
You can't say I'm gree.ly-hut / want
you. Jessie. and no or else. We were
/ always pals-and You say YOU hate your
/ job at the hotel. So Wen. it's TO axe
or leave. but it's little gold mine m
offering you.
How on Garth could | get Il hundred
and fl fty pounds?'
That's your affair. not mine said
Miss Walsh. But 1 know Ia get 1t
quick enough if l had your advantages
What do you mean?' said Jessie, with
an indignant flush.
"Oh, nothing wrong" said Miss Walsh.
Heaven forbid. But l mean you could
get it out of the gentlemen that comes to
the bar-Just in a friendly way. What =
the use of such opportuniti if you don
use EN-? AN the money of the town, so
! TO speak. is walking in and out before you
all day long"
They'd laugh in my face"
Not they. You could say you'd pay Il
back. Gentlemen will always give II help
ing hand to a girl who can make herself
agreeable-and Yet respects herself
Miss Walsh was "A hard-featured black
haired young woman. aged thirty-t hree. in
the mantle departm. mt al Selkirk's For
long time she had been making ready
for the campaign, preparing lists o Sci
kirk : customers and correspondents. OBJ
tanning all sorts OF secret intelligence ~
to credits, trade discounts. etc. She was
on an excellent footing with many repre-
sentatives of the wholesale houses en-
Joyed the confidence and esteem of two Of
Selkirk's buyers-had walked out with
one important member of the staff for
eighteen months and pumped him dry Of
information. She was ready now
Il don't want more delay. | want
to open before the summers over" and
with growing excitement she talked to
her friend. II want you. Jessie to b. in
1t. l need you along with me-if only for
your appearance. I'm getting pasSy-I
need a young partner. -
Fail Why should We fail? Given the
proper situation, W shall never look be
hind u.s. and she described all her
views poured out her trade philosophy
it tone we'd bank on, Jessie--the
chic style. Old Selkirks. Of course. have
the regular maxims-small profits and big
returns-quick turn overland all the rest
OF it.. Our policy viii be just the reverse.
Few customerS-for we can't hope for a
many-but let them be the pick of the
basket. and well knock sky-high profits
out of EN-.
Consider those Hill Rise girls alone.
suppose YOU catch one. you catch whole
boiling | count them at twenty-five for
any good line. A new scarf, a jabot or
feather boa! Well, you sit down and
write to one of them-ask for a visit
merely to be shown something new A
nouvoty! l can hear those girls taking
now while I'm telling you--yes, me talk
ing back to them. But l could get this
at selkirks for quarter the money!!
oh, l think not-not quit the same
thing. This is not on the market. 1t is
line made to the order of Cerisiers, and
by special favor we have obtainet the
overplus. -
One could not stop Miss Walsh when
she was once off. If spoke a word.
she lodged round it, ana ratified on faster
than be ore.
Don't tell me they wouldn't SNAP at It,
That's the only way I'd bother my mead
about the Hill Rise lot. It's Mrs Downing
and such asher as would put down the
big money.
Chic style-Td just have modes ct
put up our names at all-but have them
on the bilIhsads and letters. I'd have
Autographed letters - thick paper - and
coats of arms all across the top. Not the
on you if you try that game. But III
have the cars and the Austrian em-
perors. You don't tell me the cars
coming over to interfere with us
Would you say We made for the car"
Il wouldn't say anything-let EN- think
what they pleased"
Jessie was carried away at last. An
interview with Miss Walsh was like hay
ing your fortune told by a gypsy. You
could not listen to Miss Walsh without
believing that she was right In what she
said; that it would all come true in the
end.
Miss Jessie sat in her place behind the
bar, musins on the Walsh plot. Her
Mignonette novel was neglected. She
could not read; her mind wandered al
ways. and would only rest in Miss
Walsh's wond arful phantom shop. The
weeks were flying. Miss Walsh would
not wait .orever. She would seek for an
other partner
= Mr.. Downing. Well. you are a stranger.
We don't often see you, Mr.. Downing
1t was about } o'clock in the afternoon,
and Mr.. Downing, the archit ct, had come
to TIE saloon in the nope OF obtaining "A
snack of late Luncheon 1t was long past
the regular luncheon hou-, when towns
men sat on high ST OILS before the bar and
munche lIard-boil-Q g&5s. sardines. thin
slices of sausage ana So forth. The cane
seated stools had o. en removed to the
far end of the salu.n: the hard boiled
eggs had been nj AK into the hotel
to be used up ads, the French
bread had all return q to the coffee room
Nevertheless Jesse welcomed the late
conner: spOka down a tube, summoning
dainties. with Z al dive cam under
the bar flap to brhz stool with her own
white hands; Ia q -., neatly folded
napkin-in " M. Speedily made Mr..
bowling comfoTta,..
TOO bad. said ~ Bowling. seated
and munching--'' lad to give YOU All
this trouble.
NO trouble, Mir .o:Hng. Or trouble
like taking. Wht,u ought l say" and
Jessie, with her n-au aiIgntly un one SD
smiled sWeetly.
ooh t1t ;In What nice