The Bolivar County Democrat., 1919-08-30

He waved his hama rather sco-Tifully
toward the surrounding Offices of the
Union Correspondence school. "The
trouble is. just running that place is
enough to keep one man busy. and 1
didn't want to take the chances with
partner to take the business end of
II. The result Is that / haven't mar
keted my prunes to the best advantage.
read that darned advertisement of
yours, and ] fell for It and was con-
vinced that 1 could do what you said
I could. SO I bought the whole out
fit and began the lessons"
"But 1 wrote only the advertise
ment," protested Jane. Il had roth
ing to do with the course. You see, 1
write all the advertisements from
points suggested by the people that
get out the different courses"
eyes, but it was that advertisement"
said the prune grower, wagging his fin
ger threateningly at the sheet that was
stretched before them.
ut was that advertisement that per-
suaded me to do it. Well, l thumped
that typewriter every night for q
month and, honest, can't do a thing
with 1t, and l read the books and took
the lessons and when it comes to writ
ing forceful sales letters I'm just where
I always was"
"Well?" queried Jane, feeling that
the worst of the storm was over.
"Only this" went on Peter. THAT
when / got thoroughly disgusted and
woke up to the fact that I'd been bun
coed, l just made up my mind that I'd
come East, If it cost me thousand
dollars, just to lambaste the fellow
that wrote that advertisement and bun
coed me. l had got as far as Chicago
when I saw things a little different
ly"
"Then you aren't going to lambaste
me?'' And Jane managed to laugh
little. but Peter went on without heed
ing the interruption.
"It came over me all of a sudden
there in Chicago that If the fellow that
wrote that advertisement could make
NE buy that typewriter and take that
course when I'd never been buncoed
before, why he could write letters that
would sell my prune crop for the big
eest money He could take the sales
end of the business and it would pay
70 offer him good salary. SO l had
different motive after / left Chi
cago."
Now, l suppose you are veXed with
LIE because Tm not man." suggest
cd Jane.
81 hadn't quite thought things out
yet" he informed her. Il didn't know
until just now that it was a girl. That
never occurred to me. The youngster
out there didn't tell me. just showed
her the advertisement and said want
ed to see the fellow that wrote it, and
sne said / wanted to see the ad writer
ard the ad writer was too busy, and
SO I kept coming until this time she
let me in."
There was quite an awkward silence
and then their eyes met-Jane's and
Peter's-and Jane said: "I'm sorry"
and Peter asked her why.
Because l feel as if I'd got you
all the way from Oregon and
now you can't lambaste met
wouldn't be fair, when you are so
big and I'm so little-and you can't
take me back as your business manager
| either"
| Peter assured her that she need not
| feel guilty, because as it happened, he
| he'd been able to put over deal in
some land he owned in Oregon that
would mean many times what the trip
East had costa deal that he could
not possibly have managed by letter.
| Then Peter looked at Jane sitting there
in the big chair and told her he was
| lonely in the strange city and asked
her to have dinner with him. Jane re-
fused by inviting him to have dinner
with her at her brothers apartment,
where she made her home.
oeter spent only week in the East
.arn Iity of correspondence schools,
bI.t Il he had spent a year he would
have been no surer that Jane was the
one girl in the world with whom he
wished to share the fortune that Is
sure to come to him from his prune
ranch. Now he has gone back to see
about having a rather gorgeous house
built for his bride in place of the buak
cabin of his bachelor days.