New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-16
trious and strong, and want work
any kind to get start,

trious and strong, and I want work
any kind to get start
you look as if you might do re-
piled the collector dryly. sBut looks
don't count much in this business. It's
your ability to get the money or the
goods. We sell furniture on the in
stallment plan A lot of people forget
the last few instailments That's where
our profits come in. You get the last
payments or the furniture. We don't
care which. Want to try it?''
Yes replied Brightwell promptly.
when do you want me to beginy'
Right now
And after brief discussion of terms.
hours, etc, Brightwell sailed forth,
armed with the book of his predeces-
sor.
He ran down the list. Moore,
Greenwich, Hail. all within block
of each other. Moore and Greenwich
were marked as SLOW The name of
Hall had this memo written after it:
Hear that two of the family have
skipped out. Expect trouble
It was characteristic of Brightwell
that he started at the hard end of the
game and rang the beH marked .sHall."
He climbed the narrow stairs and
hung back his shoulders as he rang the
private bell on the second floor.
rs Mrs. Hall in? Peggy-why,. Peg
gy Hall!' he exclaimed. Then he step
ped quietly inside and closed the door
behind him.
IL thought it was the furn-
Henry Brightwell, what are you doing
here? However is your mother getting
along without you?''
She had led the way into the tiny
living room and now stood regarding
him with severe look not at all in
keeping with the song her heart was
singing.
Il decided that ALT was big enough
to look after mother and that If I ever
won you I'd have to follow YOU to New
York and make good, as you have done.
or you'd grow away from me.''
Peggy's gaze fell. Henry had never
told her he loved her or wanted to
win her, but of course she had thought
He drew her very close Perhaps he
had recognized this as the psycholog-
ical moment
Il struck a job the first place went.
Peggy, dear. think can make nv
way here. Will you help me?'
Fifteen minutes later he remembered
the firm of Jones & Grab.
b GI eyIIocc 1,1 boffar hi
was looking for a family by the name
of Hall that owes my firm some
money
Peggy turned scarlet
I'm the Hall, and I can't paw YOU.
The girls" her eyes snapped-"the girls
went back on me.''
Henry Brightwell sat down very sud-
denly on the sofa on which $3.50 was
yet due
swell, what do you think of that?"
Then his face cleared Yankee shrewd-
ness asserted itself. He began to fig
ure, and Peggy helped him.
That afternoon he walked into the
office of the collection department and
laid down his book and a roll of bills.
Moore and Greenwich paid up to date.
Miss Hall is up against it. Her two
partners skipped and left her with all
the furniture on her hands, She wants
to keep it if she can. There's $97. so
still due. Will you let me compromise
with her for $75 cash?"
Sure said the collector.
II kind of thought you would, so I
took the $75 while she was in the
frame of mind. You never can tell how
women will jump, you know"
! You're all right, young man. You
can have berth here as long as you
keep up this pace
The head bookkeeper from Ainsley's
did not find Mrs. Hopkins select board
ing house to his liking, and the Friday
4 evening dances never materialized, but
sometimes when Kit and Lucy want a
/, real pleasant evening they go to the
/ Brightwell apartment, where there are
always guests worth meeting. Then
! they go back to the third story front,
with its cheap. brass beds and moth
eaten hangings, and one says to the
other:
"Well, of course we get no credit for
1t, but we helped. to pay for Peggy's
pretty things
The Turk and His Toilet.
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