The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-15

the stenographer assigned to Newton
Holt. So, excepting that he had
rather passively registered mentally
that she was mice little GIRL" he had
no well-det1ned opinion regarding
Sally.
Then came Christmas, day fraught
with the unexpected for Newton, and
after that the look of distraction and
of worry that was gradually wearing
the lines in his forehead deeper and
deeper.
Il wonder whether you would do a
little shopping for meT Newton ven
tured one morning in mid-January, and
those were the first words aside from
a perfunctory good morning" or
good evening" that had ever passed
between them. Sally assured Newton
that she would and his first commits
sion was package of the best FIVE
o'clock tea waters that can be bought"
perhaps an odd order from a bach
elor, but Sally would not have given
the matter a second thought had it not
been for Mr.. Hollis rather embarras-
sed expression at the time.
Then came an order for a pound of
candied violets. Even more embar-
rassed than before did Mr.. Holt seem
at this, and as Sally left his Office after
she had handed him the rather costly
sweetmeat she distinctly heard him
say to Mr. Smith, with whom Mr.. Holt
shared his office:
"Jemima will eat no other sort of
sweets. She sulked for an hour Sun
day because / got her rock candy"
Sally's first thought was not one of
Z surprise at the tactlessness of any man
who would attempt to please a young
woman with rock candy-though this
did occur to her, too. But, even to her
own surprise, her first impression
: was one of real hatred for this person
Jemima-Jemima who must have can.
died violets. No doubt 1t was she, too,
who insisted ON the tea waters, and
perhaps 1t was because of her capri
ciousness that Mr. Holt wore the look
! of anxiety that was daily engraving
deeper burrows on his brow.
Then came the request extraordi-
nary. Mr.. Holt asked Sally to select
a little uptown apartment fo. him. He
stipulated quite distinctly tnat II must
be warm. He also asked Sally 20 bring
him a copy of the lease that he would
be required to sign so that he might
see what restrictions there would be.
Eventually Sally found the apart.
ment that satisfied her, and in making
he wise choice that she did she en-
)loyed the same method that she had
n all her previous shopping. 1t was, Z
short, the secret of Sally's shopping
success.
When she bought q hat for Mrs. !
Smith she fancied herself that fat,
)ompous lady, fancied herself the at
:endant at many bridge parties and the
president of a wOman's club or two,
and when she had fully put herself in
ler place, then she felt certain of buy
ing a hat that would be as much in
Mrs. Smiths taste as though she had
bought it herself.
So when she went to select the lit
tie dovecote-for what else but a ]
1ovecote could it be?-she tried to put
herself in the place of the one for
whom Mr.. Holt was making all these
preparations.
All she knew of her was that she
was named Jemima, that she detested
rock candy and liked candied violets
and tea waters, and she loved sun
shine, and that she must have led Mr..
Holt a merry chase to have produced
the look of anxiety that still en-
graved his brow.
That wasn't much, but with an ina
gination like Sally's the work Of re-
constructing a flesh and blood young
woman from that meager data was not
difficult. Especially when she had the
additional data that she was the be-
loved of Mr.. Holt, who, Sally was
frank to assure herself, might have
had any girl' he choose to make his
wife. Sos Sally enjoyed picking out
the apartment.
That is, she enjoyed it while she pre-
tended that she was Jemima. Then
when she came down TO earth and real