The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-25
EVENING STORY
Jones Gets a Raise.
BY INES MACDONALD.


gave his adding mach.Re a few tenta-
tive jabs and again lapsed into rev.
erie. Five years out of midwestern
college, and David r. Jones had little
to boast of in the way of achievement.
He had been ambitious, but eager and
enthusiastic application to his job for
five long years had failed to lit him
out Of the clerks class.
When he had taken the job in an
swer to an advertisement. he, had been
assured of rapid advancement and
future for the right man." But he was
still doing the same work he had been
doing after his first three months with
the company. He had stuck to one
job with sincere and industrious pur-
pose Without its bringing him any
thing in the way of advancement
and now that 1t was June again the
prospect of another long, hot summer
in that office CALLED him.
With-a thoughtful air he withdrew
from his wallet clipping which he
had torn from his newspaper oO the
way downtown in the subway that
morning:
'"WANTED-Athletic young man as
boatInan on gentleman's estate, Con-
necticut shore Must be expert swim
canOes-make repairs and be general
ly useful and obliging $dO monthly
tween 10 and IL Tuesday, Hotel Ark
wright"
And after he had read the ad thru
once more young Mr.. Jones arose from
his desk and entered the private office
of his great and exclusive BOSS the
well-known Mr.. Henry P. Riggs. Mr..
Riggs or "O1d H. p as he was called
in the outer office, stared at the inn
pulsive Mr.. Jones with surly surprise.
The privacy of his domain had never
before been so violated.
"Well?" he demanded.
I'm JONES'" said Jones, David r.
Jones. I've been with this company
five years. have a fair education, a
certain amount of brains and some
ability. When I came here 1 was
promised rapid advancement and fu-
ture, and before 1 die of old age at
$35 a week I thought I'd go into the
matter with you"
"well?" repeated Old II. P. sourly.
II want a mans job and $4,000 a
year from today or I'm thru"
Old H. p. glared. and the barest
crinkle of a sarcastic smile puckered
up, one corner of his mouth. You're
thru, all right" he agreed, land you
won't find three-thousa nd-dollar jobs
hanging on trees around this town,
young man."
Anyway" grinned Jones affably,
IT don't intend to hang on this tree
till I'm rotten. There are plenty of
Manhattan"
Very WELL growled Old Fl. p.
turning bacl- to his desk. But if
you don't get your fancy job you can
have your old one here any time. be-
fore the first of September he flung
over his shoulder.
HUH" he grunted a few days later
when the incident REQUIRED to him.
The young squirt! And 1 was proud
OF fifteen week at his age"
But at that very moment David R.
Jones, clad in a sleeveless jersey and
an. old pair of flannel trousers, was
TIMING up. the engine of a high-pow-
cred motorboat up on the Connecticut
shore. iss. ~
Hello. boatman!" shouted d voice
above thef din and Jones looked up
to see smiling face peering at him
over the edge of the dock. <-r
She swung her legs over the side
and turned around with the intention
of sliding down backwards to the deck
of the boat some six feet below. Her
skirt caught on a bolt, but she kept
right on sliding till the modest Mr..
Jones was compelled to turn his face
away.
"Unhook me-" she finally walled in
dignantfy. And Jones, wiping his
| reached up obediently yam and vi UNLOCKED ~aks
her. setting, her safely on her feet with
| a grin.
| "My-my coming was quite a reve-
| lation, wasn't ?" she said demurely
the color deepening in her checks
But Jones had pretended not to no.
tice, altho the nice men who pretend
never to notice are the very ones who
| never miss anything. who nigh,
you be?" he asked pleasantly.
| I'm Lolita, the youngest" she
laughed. Carlotta Riggs, you know
rive only got here just little while
t,go-Louise and Nina and Aunt Ag-
mes. Aunty says you impressed hel
| very favorably at your interview in
| town, and she thinks you're going to
be a very nice boatman. What's your
| name?"
And from that day forth David r
Jones was Lotta's very own. She APP
| propriated him as something sent t.
| her by the gods for her own especiA
pleasure and amusement. Tegethei
they painted the boats.mended tn,
dock-rebuilt the float. Sturdily sh,
| worked at his side, and in between
times they swan together, played to
j gethe' anil sailed together. If the res
| of the family noticed it at all the,
| merely passed it off with a shrug-
for after all Lolita was only. a kid
4 but
The, day H. P. Riggs was expected
up to spend a week with his family
Lolita and Jones went across the ba,
in the motorboat to meet him, and HI
was introduced t.. the bare-shouldered
brawny young bcatman by his daush
ter. At first he did not recogniz,
Jones but the way Lolita lowered owe
that young man drew her fathers un
| divided attention and disapproval-
| and while he glowered over his daugh
ter's apparent affection for his erst
| while clerk, Jones's identity register q
itself on his brain.
'Davy. isn't really boatman," ex
| planned Lolita to her father that nigh
at the dinner table. Hes just a YER,
nice young man who worked his hea(
| off five whole years for a grouchy oil
man who wouldn't give him a chance
So Davy made up his mind to have {
nice vacation this summer and find {
better job next fall"
And as usual Lolita hurried thru h :.
dinner and slipped down to the beacf
and DaVy Jones