Evening star., 1914-04-24
THE EVENING STORY.
An Intimate Experience.
Copyright. 1oi.. by W. we4ner.)

Copyright. f9it. by W. We9ler)
Jinnys meeting with Frederick Trent
was purely accidental. He came into the
store that morning to buy clothes
brush and she sold it 20 him. While he
was buying the brush it began to rama
sudden dciuge that sent people scurrying
to shelter everywhere. Frederick had nc
umbrella and so he had fingered at the
brush counter. lengtheniag out his pur-
chase making until the storm should PASS.
They lad discussed the subject of brushes
pretty thoroughly. jimmy knew her bus.-
ness and she earned every penny in her
pay envelope. Incidentally she learned
that Frederick knew his. He was civil
engineer.
After Frederick left the store jimmy
went On selling brushes 10 those who
wanted theUI Tier sales always mounted
high. S3c sold clothesJrushes to the
Elc7 and hairorushes to tie women
When NJ told Il woman that she always
gaze het hair ltD s:rokes ut night with
certain kind of brush tie won<n invaria-
bis looked at Ji1nys tair and bought the
brush. But Jinny's hair not her only
charm. True. il was re- ther wonderful In
It's way. being pure amber in color.
with aluring shadows and catchy nigh
lights palptatinS all over it. Her eyes
Were the verT eyes to 20 with such hair
long, brown and soft as velvet. with en-
in her cheeks ard dimple in her square
chin. tud she wore businesslike stiff
collars and tailored waists which just
the same as labeled her No nonsense,
There was. indeed. no soclishness about
jimmy. There never had been. She had
started oft with more common sense than
most people collect in a lifetime. She. had
begun liie by being u, poor widows only
chick. There had been life insurance
left by her father to supfor; them for
while bUt 1890 is not going to last for-
ever. even with the most frugal handling.
jimmy was sixteen wien she perceived
the time had come for her to so TO work.
Her mother was sick already with the
disease that few years later killed her
and life was all at skies and sevens.
jimmy did not have to hunt long for
job because she tboI the first one that
offered. She was not particular so long
as she got pay envelope regularly. She
began as errand girl in Callendir's big
store and soon was promoted to counter
work.
When Frederick Trent met her she was
twenty-five years old and she was. earn
ing $40 a week and mad some ambition
TO become a buyer IN her deoa rtrnept.
But she fell in love with Frederick ard
that all ended. suddenly.
This failing in love did not happen to
her that rainy morning when sire sold
him the brush, though she felt a curious
interest In the rather broad. DARK square
jawed young man who could afford to lay
down the better part of 4 fve-dollar bill
Tor an artfcte tnat was intended merely TO
Keep an expensive suit a little more i'm
nlaculate. When he went out she never
expected to see him again. But the next
day he was back again to look at more
brushes; and then she knew. Hitherto
jimmy had heheld men as men merely
creatures that were evident but Of no i'm
portance at all in her scheme Of things
but Frederick was different. She saw
how he might become very different
However. she was wary. She vas not
sure that he meant all he said to her yet.
She intended to wait and see.
Therefore the faster he pursued tire
faster she ran away. He flung gifts
after her. She accepted all graciousIy
and grayely as she accepted Frederic.s
but with reservation. Once she went to
the theater with him.. and once to din
ner. The rest of the time he courted
her in Mrs Cassidy's boarding house
parlor. with other people in full view.
But a. last chance favored him. and he
proposed to her whe,i there was nobody
BY to hear whether she said yes or no. Il
jimmy said yes. She had intended to
say yes all the time only sine was de-
termined that Frederick should want to
hear II as much as she would want to
say il. The score was even and they
became engaged. And Frederick put on
her finger a real diamond ring for which
he had paid as much money as jimmy