Bisbee daily review., 1913-12-07
CHAPTER xv.
A Stroke of Luck.

A Stroke of Luck.
 We come now to the most crowded day in all the crowded life of Rosaie I.e Grange We begin. indeed. with lsosalie Le Grange out of the stage picture. We are in the office of the Thomas W. North Advertising Agency In lower Fifth Avenue. Tommy North sits at a cheap but neat desk. brand new like all the furnishings of that little old office He is laboring for an accurate and arresting headline to proclaim the safety, and yet the dead Illness, of a new automatic revolver. At the typewriter desk in the corner sits Betsy Barbara Lane, inexpertly tapping the keys with two fingers of her right hand and one of her left. And as Betsy-Barbara smiles trium- phantly over this fair line, frowns at that foul one, purses her lips over the other hard combination, her radiance fills and Eliminates the Thomas w. North Advertising Agency.
 From inception to interior furnish ings, it is all Betsy-Barbara. Hers was the choice and placing of the green Mission furniture Hers was the selection of the pictures, their ar engagement in relation to the wall spaces That 1t might be pleasant place for work, she picked out prints of her favorite pictures--the Countess Potolka, the Baby Stuart and the Duchess of Devonshire. To give it business air, she added a framed pho tograph of the Union Station in St. Louis. Further, Betsy-Barbara found the most spectacular specimens of ad- vertising design executed by Thomas W. North. set them in passe-partouts with her own hands, and hung them just where they would invite the eye and confidence of customers. She re- membered also the soul needs of MT. Thomas W. North himself. In the interstices of the decorations she placed such notices as she deemed best for him, as Do It Now" ''Indus- try Is Happiness; and, most sig niicant of all to one who understood the reason for the Thomas W. North Agency, It's What You Do After Business Hours That Gives You Nery- ous Prostration," Finally. to all theae decorations she had added more and more frequently of late her own flu mined self.
 For life, what time she was not busy with the solace of Constance, hung heavy nowadays on the capa- ble hands of Betsy-Barbara. Just when she realized that what she need ed was work, she found that the core spondence of the Thomas W. North Agency was getting greater than Tommy himself could handle She announced at once her intention of learning the typewriter and doing that work herself-ail for the good of the enterprise. To this proposal. Tommy entered a protest of conscience; but the thought that he would see Betsy Barbara in office hours as well as out rendered 1t very feeble. So Bstsy-Bar- bsra fell to work on the secondhand typewriter; and she had so far pro- gressed that she could write a pass ably good business letter in four at tempts and a mornings time
 On the scene of brisk business ac- tivity suddenly entered Rosalie Le Grange. As she stepped into the door. she was large-eyed. serious. a-quiver with inner intensity. She broke into a smile. however. as she surveyed the Thomas W North Advertising Agency at work, Both Tommy and his ana teur stencgrapher had heard the steps; hut each. as people will ao when they are intent. failed to look up from his uncompleted line until startled by Rosalic,s:
 -Myi Such a pair of little work ersr
 Tommy grinnsd