The Huttig news., 1910-08-06
HER JOY
 RIDE

" HSTe were you ySSleTudy dittI- noon?" asked the girl with pink roses on her hat of her companion. T called up your office and your manager said you were out"
 Very much out" the other girl an- swered. And MT. Dillingworth was very much put out in token thereof" :"
 q think he's the handsomest man" pensively observed the girl with pink roses on her hat.
 Handsome is as handsome does" said her companion severely. "Why, that man is too grumpy for any earth ly use.'
 Tell me all about it, Nita."
 You remember Miss Greer?" began Nita. "She was taken i'll in the office yesterday afternoon. MT. Dillingworth asked ne to take her to her home out on Sheridan road and he called an automobile for us"
 How lovely of him! Almost any other manager would have left you to the mercies of the street car"
 Miss Green wasn't able to walk to the street car" Nita explained. T helped her with hat and coat and MT. Dillingworth sent the office boy down to the car with us.
 Limousine stood directly in front of the door and I asked the chauffeur if he was waiting for the Universal com pany He said he was, so the office boy assisted us in. closed the door and away we went.
 "On the way out I was fully occu- pied in caring for Miss Greer. hadn't moment to enjoy speeding in state along the Lake Shore drive at three o'clock in the afternoon. Coming back. however, sunk into the luxuri- ous cushions and imagined myself somebody.
 It was a splendid car-beautiful cut-glass twin vases for flowers. mir TOT, clock, electric lights, velvet rug on the floor, wonderful robe everything. enjoyed it so thoroughly that I ached all over. 1 took myself to task for having thought MT. Dilling- worth grumpy. It was his delicate consideration that had made this de lightful ride possible. I was stricken with a fit of remorse, filled with a hundred appreciative thoughts. made a thousand virtuous resolutions.
 AS my eyes rested on Lake Michi. gan, blue and smiling In the sunshine. 1 promised myself that thenceforth I'd be an angel of patience and gentle ness even when the manager was at his grumpiest.
 "The moment I entered the office, however, I divined that something was amiss MT Dillingworth maintained what I suppose he considered a digni- fled silence, but my intimate knowlege of him enabled me instantly to pro- nounce it lamentable exhibition of bad temper. Mir Appleton. his as sistant. enlightened me as to the cause.
 Tt seems that the president of the Universal company had come to the office in his car intent upon asking three gentlemen, whom he had invited to meet him there, out to the works. I had mistaken the presidents linn cuisine for the car MT. Dillingworth had ordered and had simply run off with it. Every one in the office thought it joke save the poor. dear, grumpy manager. whom it completely upset"
 What did the president and his guests do?"
 Took taxi out to the works. It must have cost the company $50 at least, judging from MT. Dillingworth's attitude to me ever since. You won't believe it, but without word he gave me to mail a check for $4. together with the bill for the taxi that had stood waiting and working while Miss Greer and were speeding north and I was returning. That I considered exceedingly impolite; he could just as we'll have mailed it himself and spared my feelings. like to remember that I was perfectly sweet over the matter.
 'When I came down today wished him a pleasant good morning as if nothing had happened and he couldn't have ignored me more completely if I'd been as dead as Julius Caesar. That. my dear, just shows you what q grumpy old thing he is.
 I've decided not to resign my posi- tion however. because he would find 1t hard to fill my place with another girl who would be always patient and polite. Besides. want to convince him that l harbor no ill feeling against him"
 q think you're just the noblest hing" said the girl with pink roses on her hat admiringly.
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