The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-25
''BOBBIE, GENERAL MANAGER
BY Alice Higgins Pouty Copyright A.
NEXT WEEK bat WING BOWLES, - BY DANE COOLIDGE

preferences among their brothers
but there is no one in the world tC
me like Alec.
/ had sixty good, crisp dollars
tucked safely away in a little
chamois bag in the handbook where
| keep my best Sunday-go-to-meet,
ing hat, and when my allowance
came due on December first
should have seventy-five.
| / had IL all planned that on De-
cember first l would deposit the
seventy-five dollars in the bank
and make out a check for Oliver
Immediately. But something hap
pened which made quicker action
necessary.
When December third, divers
Ifateful day, was about a week off.
| received another letter from him.
In his haste, in directing it, he
had omitted the state, and the let
ter had travelled to a Hilton, New
York, before it found its way to
me three days later.
1.-THE business meeting has
been set forward to November
twenty-sixth, so you better
send the check on the twenty
fourth, at the latest. You've
been a trump to get IL for me
and if you're good, I'll have
both you and Ruth down for q
game sometime with a spread
in my room"
| didn't read any farther.
reached for my calendar. Yes-as
sure as | was alive-Saturday! To-
day was Saturday. Oliver must
have seventy-five dollars today!
1t was nine o'clock. Alec was at
the factory. Ruth was not in the
house. | went down to the roll-top
desk and found a timetable. There
was a train at nine-fifty. It didn't
take me an instant to decide that
l would deliver that money to
Oliver myself.
l put on my hat and coat and
hurried over to DR.. Maynard's. /
buried all the pride l ever had
(Which Alec had said was small
amount) and pulled the big front
bell. | had made up my mind, after
Alec's cutting speech, that | would
never take another cent from DR..
Maynard as long as l lived. But
l had to, you see. My allowance
wasn't due for five days. | simply
had to have nineteen dollars i'm
mediately-four for my railroad
fare and fifteen for Oliver,
Hello" said DR.. Maynard, n
the doorway. Good morning! 1t
isn't often l have calls from young
ladies so early. Come I'M"
No." l replied. mo, thanks"
l stopped minute then I said, 81
know you'll be very much sur
prised. l know I'm going to do a
very improper thing. | must seem
to have no pride at all, but-but
can you lend me nineteen dol
lars?" My cheeks were burning
red. DR.. Maynard folded his arms
and leaned up against the case
ment of the door. could see him
smiling. "I'll pay you back" I
went on bravely, ''in four days
at least fifteen dollars of it. The
rest | can give you on January
first"
DR.. Maynard sat down on the
doorstep and made a place for me.
"Sit down, Bobbie." he said.
Il can't" replied; I'm in a
hurry"
DR.. Maynard stood up again
he's always very polite with me
and refolded his arms.
"Alec came over last night" he
went on, land it seems, Lucy, that
AL didn't approve of our little
game. He took it a little more Sc
riously than We did, and perhaps
it's better, after all, if you're in
any sort of difficulty, to go
straight to your brother, II you've
got as good a one as Alec"
Aren't you going to lend it to
me?" | asked, point-blank.
well, now, you see," DR.. May
nard smiled, "Al didn't tell me the
story, but he implied that you had
explained the whole thing to him |;
and of course, BObbie, IL he, your