The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-11-14
There WAS TO IT
ey GRACE kERRIGAN.


ritter with Ames & Co. she didn't
Tor any social side OF it. There
IN be any III business office.
aould ask for The respect that is
nv girl or woman, no matter
Ter she has money and social
Ing or must earn her living.
III 20 & Co. were middle-aged men
18th married. Both were workers,
nth quiet men. They had small
Gth0ss, but paying one, and their
1kteeper was also their cashier. He
" y youna man of twenty-four, and
w Newcomer was not Iavorably i'm
"a with him. 1t is none Of the
ezra pliers business whether the
eeper in his den is young or old
iE, .looking or usiy-social or surly.
|feafher mir. Adams nor his partner
51fo good at debating, and they put
sWork OFF on the bOokkeeper.
aShIn. they would be the only oCcu.
Sm1S of the business for hours at a
Re. Ar if he was surly and gruf 1t
honE make things lonesome.
n III. Walter Bardsley, the said book
WE. was in his den when Miss Car
W Called and was hired. There had
11 een a girl in that Office in the five
I1II he had been there, but he never
1|SISiild from his desk to look. She had
leasant voice, but he didn't seem to
1t. After she had gone, and he
u lold by Ames that she was to take
place, his only comment was:
h yGQY we'll, sir"
"a was waiting for him next morn
Rhen he arrived.
S1G Bardsley did rot bow. He did not
luce himself He did not look at
4. 1 picked up the morning mail and
lid 1t into his den and the girl was
Nor half an hour to twiddle her
IBIS. Then he came out and sat
&n by the machine and started OF
H. o. Wharton-Dear Sir: Your
f of the 9th inst. at hand"
Us Lizzie picked up pad and pen
nd wrote. There were five letters
. He never paused to say com
period" or paragraph but
;,l.k ,l,1 Il ,,,1,n g.
M got up without word and went
to his den. She typed the let
and laid them on the desk and
Mr. Amus oale in they were
I'd and stlc out to b. mailed.
Rery w,ll duaa sid Mr.. Ames.
that's all there wGs to it.
noon Mr. nn-isley went out to
hen he had Disappeared Miss Liz
vent out 70 lunch She was back
and when he came in she did not
at him nor he at her. He could
said: Nice day, Hiss Carford?"
IVY ID he could have answered: Yes,
nice"
II he didn't say and she didn't say.
om her place by the machine she
q look into the bookkeeper's den
she his back-always his back.
b she had surveyed that back for
B mortal hours, and could have
In a war-map Of every line and
kle. she turned and looked out
the roof of the adjoining build
There was a clothes-line stretch
cross it, and on that line hung an
led hannol hrt 1t capped in the
ze 1t futtergd like wounded
There were nom hts when it
bst ceased to breathe, as it were.
bat shirt when new was blood
Ln color, It was now faded to the
OF an oI& brick house in larry.
h-the one where General Wash.
b. once 81 pped after licking the
fsh 70 ask he owner for the tenn
ry loan his boot.jack. The
I'd ioui' patches on it to cover
holes .a buttons were missing
with incrc sing age it had shrunk.
I was the r0maHcc-what the mys-
c! the oid red shirt?
Ehv. tteI~h you'd some"
VIZ tn ice of Mr. Ames at her
" The girl had f;!len asleep.
bookkeerer I'D dep9rtcd without
K nirg her Wasn't that the trick
mean man?
hch day for the next month was
~ ~ other Gay. Outside OF the
alton not ten words passed be-
en The stencgrapher and the book
per They came and went with
noticing each other, 1t veXed
annoyed her for the first week
then she said to herself:
He's prcb bly, mad because some
he recommend d wasn't taken
instead OF me, but If he thinks
get rid of ne by PLAYING the
he'll find himself mistaken, I'm
glad to find one man in the city
isn't sinking around and brag-
how smart he Isl"
hen a son of Mr.. Amos' partner
pc home on his vacation from col
2. He was very fresh young
D. He wanted tt oa a hieh roller
his father was light Win money
tiers. He burg about the ccice q
ID DEAL though neither the book,
Rper nor the stenCg~anher was
r. than barely civil TO him.