The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-01
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When 4 Girl M0Yvies
By ANN LESLIE.

gy if you had anything to apologize for" I replied. extending my hand in | farewell. Miss May will represent | me when I'm out consulting the mag l az1nes, and I'm sure she under | stsands that your business is to have 1 our extra-special-bes attention in re- turn for your interest and willingness | to sponsor the f1rm.''
 | Yes. indeed" said Miss May, ann | iab1y.
 Could I give you a life anywhere,
 miss" asked Max Hoadley of Car | lotta, with his annoying impervious- | ness to snubs and sights.
 Greatly to my surprise, Carlotta. in- | clfned her head with a stately dignity
 which she seemed to have put on like | a garment and which was undoubt- i edly far more becoming to her than 1 her usual f1anboyance.
 | "1'1l be glad to have you drive me | downtown, if you have your car 1 here." she replied. And it might be | wise for me to stop in at the furni- ture place with you I know the ex- act measurements of that inner office | and it won't be a haIf-bad idea to l make sure of the sizes on the furni-
 ture Mrs. Harrison ordered so blithe- | ly without consulting either her real
 estate agent or her-shan we say | head client?"
 Her sudden unbending wasn't mex | plicable to me. I could see that it was motivated by the desire to make | II perfectly clear to the furniture | people that MT. Hoadley was not act
 Ing as my agent. At the moment this | seemed to me to be good and suff1- clent reason for CarIott'as sudden
 change in temperature. But when | they had gone l wondered I had l before ha1 in,
 mess capacity, nor yet deal with any 1 one she evidently suspected of some l thing she didn't like
 My telephone was already installed. and so as soon our guests had de- 1 parted I sat down to inform the Oar l rlngforth Shoe Go. and the Yeida
 Imp portfng Co. that I was ready for
 visits From their advertising men. Both organizations made appoint | ments Gfor later in the week. which
 left me plenty of time to get the data neded from the magazines Then I sat down with Miss May | to give her an idea of her own duties
 and their relation to the business. I'm going to spend this afternoon
 and the next two days visiting the | various monthhes and weeklies. I
 must get the latest information in regard to space rates and their euuip | ment for doing color printing. as well | as the sepia and regular black ,,nd wh1te," explained. I'll leave you in full charge. But I'll telephone at 10 and 2 and again at each day. So If there are any messages with
 which you don't feel competent to 1 deal you'll be able to give me rec | ord of them or to put me in touch With the 1nqutring parties. Now I'm going to give you letters to a few big firms I'd like to have as clients. If our stationery isn't here from the engraver by noon you'dd better teIe- phone for it."
 This speech gave me a. comfortable feeling of being at once efficient and far-sighted. And when my telephone J1ngled minute or two later I felt
 that maybe I'd conjured a client up by dint of the vibrations from my forcefu1 business methods. But it
 was Mabel Storrs who greeted me over the wire
 How goes it in the new shop ?" she asked succfnctIy, and then, with out seeming to attribute enough i'm portance to the question to wait for
 it's answer. she plunged ahead: "If you're not to fussy, could you run down this noon? I've a very inter- est matter to go into with you-a letter from MT. Harrison"
 With a cold stricture in my throat every feeling of being a business woman vanished utterly. I realized that, for the first time since his ajb- sence, Jim had written to the office without my receiving companion letter.
 Gro Be Continued)