The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-08-18

ciety women in question we're to en-.
Joy all the realism of the task. They
were to punch the time clock with
the other thousand employees of the
store. They we're to be allowed to sell
goods in whatever department they
chose, and for their sales they were
to receive a Is per cent commission
for their favorite charity.
The scheme worked better than he
had expected, and on a certain Mon.
day morning in late winter the ranks
Of ten of the largest departments in
the store were increased by the pres.
ence of ten new employees.
In the neckwear department was
the debutante, Wilhelmina Sedgwick.
In the millinery department young
Mrs. S~turtevant Shawger floated
around in a new bouffant morning cos.
tune especially imported for the un'
dertaking from war-ridden Paris. In
the blouse department, was the be.
earringed Mrs. Tom Bradgley, who
was a great drawing card because OF
the rather piquant details of her re.
cent divorce proceedings.
Most attractive of all, was Corinne
Delacroix, at least from Filbert's per.
sonal viewpoint. She had chosen the
more arduous task of selling furniture
because, as she argued, furniture was
linery, and Is per cent Of her sales
there might really be worth while.
Although Corinne herself was not
especially well known-indeed she
had made her debut only a few weeks
before-as far as family and fortune
went she was the most valuable a C
QUESTION of them all.
This debutante saleswoman, simply
clad in a neat little frock Of black
guiltless of a single ornament save
for the brilliant sash she wore across
her slender body was ION the floor
| ahead of time that first morning and
Hall Bingley, head of the department
was giving her instructions about her
work when Frozenstar appeared. He
had intended to get there in time to
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Just what her duties were to be.
OF course, thought he, it was alb
surd for him to be Jealous of a man
like Bingley, who, in the eyes Of
Corinne, was probably no more than
q butler or footman. That she had
been talking with apparent ease to
him and that she spoke to him again
frequently during the day, was moth.
ing to irritate Frozenstar.
Still the irritating thing about II
was that he was decidedly rufled and
that as the hours passed he became
more and more so.
Delightful little woman that she
was, Frozenstar noticed that Corinne
treated him with something more than
frigid Formally. She told him more
than once that she admired the spirit
of philanthropy that had prompted
him and she actually asked him to act
as patron for a post-Lenten charity
bazaar. This would near a check for
several hundred dollars, but Frozen.
star accepted eagerly. She really
was delightful, charming, bewitching.
And her sales were phenomenal.
| Corinne's commissions amounted to
an amazingly large figure, larger by
far than those Of any other mi Of
| the society saleswomen." What q
pleasure 1t would be, thought Frozen
star, to hand that check to Miss Della
| croix. He would take It in person to
her.
Just as he was meditating this in
his private Office, the advertising
manager slouched into the room.
"Have you heard the news" he
asked. zone Of the men from the
Morning Post just told me. But Of
course 1t isn't going to get into print.
That would never do. That Corinne
Delacroix you thought you had up in
the furniture department is really
loafng in seclusion at her fathers
place at Palm Beach. You see. she
thought it wasn't fair to rob some girl
Of a job; yet she didn't want to miss
getting the commissions for charity.
So she got hold of q pretty little
salesgirl WHO needed work and got her
to take the place. She happened to
know . guy in your store, too. en-
gagged to him, I think-and 80 she
came around in Corinne's place and
arranged to be in the department Of
this man she is going to marry. OF
course, no one is any the wiser ex-
| cent n few 0f ia that heard the story.
And 1t can't make a bit Of difference
to you SO long % the people have
been fooled. l think 1t was quite q
shrewd idea, don't you?"
Frozenstar had . momentary vision
I Of the check he had made out in or.
der to be a patron Of the charity
bazaar.
Yes. it was rather clever" vas III
y would ~.