, 1919-01-30
Sent By
Miss Wiggin
By JANE OSBORN
.tCopyright. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

tCopyright. Mcclure newspaper oyhuicdte-j
..Sba soys ,f,ss yy,.o,6 con, bar o,d
she said IN giva vou tb,s - dravy,ed tbe
smon. oRco how. 70 stonIav uiooirs in
,ha ,;dd,a of,what saan,ad 90 soid M.
uiogins tha hrs;os, morn,n, Of. Tho
busiest week of bis business coreer
.rho ro.d t,ou,. 80. .,n,o che san+
- - ,,a shaSaanon NO
80 san.~s, - - an
-. III Is. II no. H.,
ne iuu no .n,ne 70 eAaipihe Il w,
~ ua,
=" n'u 80 49,
- aaa.aat,n ~ - CO.. fro-
go 20 nsan 80
- a.an.ns a;r, =. ona ~ 200,
ormandotion into a. drawer If bis
aasI,
DO wh,st,ad and tbe office how besi.
totad On tho thrashold IN soc whether
tbis meant that uiggins wanted him tn
sion.
NO. 90 on shouted Higgins. The
whistle had been the natura result of
the FIRST glimpse of the photograph
which shower the original TO he n fall.
slender blonde. with a figure that
mingled the litheness of a nymph with
the symmetry and perfection of a Di-
ana.
Especially. was this true of the arms,
which were generously displayed in
the picture, though the voluminous
furs about the shoulders, left one
Obliged to guess the beauty there con.
'cealed. Higgin, mad never heard of
sending in a picture as part of an ap'
~plication for a clerical job before.
1t wasn't a bad idea-still 1t would
have been more appropriate, he
thought. to send a picture as the young
woman would appear in business-or
did she come in this theatrical attire?
In a minute more she answered the
question for herself. She did not, II
she was as lively and as Dianesaue
in the neat street suit, albeit lust a
trife worn and shabby, that she wore.
Miss Wiggin sent me- began the
girl. looking searcbinplv around the
office as If missing something that she
had expected to find. She had time TO
saw no more.
TITS high time she did send you,"
was Higgins rejoinder. 81 don't see
any reason why you shouldn't handle
the job, do your"
"Onlv that nv arms are inst n little
foo short" she said .but that nerbaps
doesn't matter with the work Won have
for me. In the fur concern where I
was once II didn't matter. but Miss
Wiggin said I'd better; tell YOU"
Higgins looked mn In SUNRISE. then
laughed. "Ob. that's all iebt." he
said. The idea that there would he
enough switchboard work for her TO
do to make il necessary to have her
arms measured as one would for a
central operator amused him. "Why
did you leave your last placer" he
asked. "Was it just on that ~account?"
Not entirely" said the girl, blush
ing in spite of an effort not to. "But.
you see-weIl. in nv kind of work II
sometimes isn't as pleasant as II
might be, and-well. IL do nv work
well I don't like TO go ont TO dinner
with the BUYERS. You wouldn't expect
rae to do that. would you?"
"Dlnner with The buvers3 -, gasned
Higgins. Assuredly none of the gov
agents who came to place or
ders for motors in the concern for
which he worked had ever. vet shown
any disposition TO take the Young wom-
an clerks out to dinner He assured
her hat she would not he exnected TO
do that sort of thing.
az Won can MAKO vours.,f
generally usefuI for a dov or sou be
said In snite of the fact that ha was
combating Of Miss Virgins delay in
sending the girl. the fling cabinets in
which he wanted her 70 begin tho
system he had in mind had not come
Donhra Draw-for th.t wos ha..
manas raadr e ,oa,n ma., -
once and tbo,fgh she seemad a I,,tIo
.u-nr,sod whom no ,o,d har 20 hoo,n