Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-11
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THAT will do beautifully for a
start she said.
"A start at what?" inquired Tommy.
"At the Thomas w. Worth Advertise
ing Agency"
"The Thomas w. North Advertising
Agency. It's founded now, 1915 a. M.
October IS, at the corner of Fifth
avenue and forty-sixth street, New,
York;"
This is sudden!' exclaimed Tom.
Now, see, Mr.. North resumed
Betsy-Barbara, I've diagnosed your
case. The trouble with you Is that
you've drifted. Isn't it,"
II suppose so,'' said Tommy.
"And 1t has been the whole trouble,
I think" Betsy Barbara announced
this gravely from the superior height
OF twenty-four years. "You need re-
sponsibility. You don't want to grow
into the kind of young man Mr. Dayne
and Mr.. Murphy are. They're profess
sional drifters now. When you're
boss you won't be loafng on the job
You'd discharge an employee who did
that-and you can't discharge yourself
Some day you'll wish you had busi-
ness of your own. Then you'll look
back and be sorry you didn't start 1t
when you were young. You can get
business, can't your
II ought to-" said Tommy.
"And l think you ought" she check
ed herself here. She wanted to say
that anyone with Tommy Norths
personality should be able to drag
business out of rock. What she did
add was another question.
And you can-ix up--the business
when you get it, 4
II suppose / can. I never lost a
place for incompetence-excep the
elevator job"
Then there's really nothing more to
be said" responded Betsy Barbara
Just get an ONCE, and hang out your
single, and 60 to work. You may
fail, Of course. But you'll be doing 1t
for yourself, and that. Thomas W..
North, is what you need"
Tommy North had been looking at
her as one who sees visions and hears
voices. why, that's the way | used
to think That's the way used to
talk" he said. II didn't realize until
I heard it from you, how I'd got over
1t. I guess l don't think that way a"''
more. It's this town, Miss Lane.
York's queer place. It fills UP everj
year with young men and young girls.
Some 60 right straight up to the top,
k.,A lot MI ~ hot
until they give up and go home. i
guess that was happening to mel
was drifting at the bottom"
You're nearer to 1t than you ever
WERE" said Betsy Barbara. ..You see
I'm new here and haven't lost that
feeling that you get in New York the
minute you come-that you can move
mountains. And while still feel that
way, I'm going to make you work"
"All right" commanded Tommy
North, fire away! I'll do anything
you tell me to do, and go anywhere
you say He did not add what his
heart said, Even to the end of the
world
1.-The first thing to do when you're
starting In. business is to find an
Office" said Betsy-Barbara practically.
There are lots of good cheap little
places in lower Fifth avenue" said
Tommy North.
Lets look at them right now!" ex-
claimed Betsy Barbara. And the new
Informed Thomas w. North Advertis-
ling Agency wheeled and startled north
ward.
That afternoon, Betsy-Barbara and
Resale LIE Grange were sewing to.
gether in the sun parlor. Resale,
guider and compeller of destinies, had
seemed for fortnight the least con-
siderable factor In the events now
gathering about the Hanska case. She
moved quietly among the enactors OF
the drama, performing her duty OF
shaking together new household. The
invalid on the top floor took a great
deal of her time, and her quiet moth
erly watch over Constance almost as
much. Toward Constance she main
tanned an attitude Of distant affection.
With Betsy Barbara, on the other
hand, she grew familiar and big-sister.
lily. Spite Of wide surface differences
Ia breeding and grammar, there was
some natural bond between these two
perhaps their common taste for con-
trolling destinies. Resale never let
her affections film the main chance,
however. In their chats over the mus.
lin and the tea-cups, she drew Betsy
Barbara. through subtle attack and re
treat, to full discussion of the Hanska
case. Yet so careful was her method
that Betsy-Barbara never dreamed she
had broken any condolences.
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