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 She could hardly walt for Dick to open tho garage doors and switch on the light. Glory walked all around the little blue car with its burnished brass trimmings shin ing in the electric ligh:.
 "Oh. you cute thing! never thought I'd own anything like you!" she cried, batting the mudguards with her little gloved hands, loving ly,
 By the end of the week Glory had learned to drive the car. She went Christmas shopping In it, bringing 1t home loaded with beribboned packages.
 "Youll just perfectly kill me, Dick, when the bills come in!" Glory said one morning. "so don't buy me a Christmas present |. . just pay my bills instead, like a good sport! They aren't so awfully big"
 But when the bills came In the first week in January, they were very big =. much larger than Glory had expected. She was sure that the stores had made a mistake in them, somewhere.
 She went over them again and again, with the same result. She owed exactly six hundred dollars two hundred of 1t for Christ mas gifts Glory kept the bills In the top drawer of her desk for two days.
 On the third day she screwed up her courage to show them to Dick.
 She would take them to him at his office.
 Miss Briggs would be there, of course. And Dick couldn't scold and rave about the bills in front of Miss Briggs!
 Glory dressed herself with great care. On the way downtown sho stopped at the florists and bought an orchid for her coat.
 The windshield mirror told heI that she was looking unusually love- ly.
 It would be much harder fol Dick to quarrel with a beautiful wife who had run up s600 worth oi bills, than with a plain unattractive
 It was nice to he beautiful. Il made things so much simpler.
 There was no one at Miss Briggs desk in Dicks outer office.
 From the inner room came the sound of voices.
 Glory sat down in Miss Briggs swivel chair to wait,
 The office was warm. After g while Glory took off her coat, ant then her hat. The tight crown hat left a red band on her forehead She rubbed 1t gently with her fin gertips.
 and told him that Mother and I could take care of the two older children. But l guess it's go ing to be too much for Mother She's not so very we'll"
 Miss Briggs voice!
 And what was she talking about . Glory listened.
 Silence for long moment. Thel Dicks voice.
 Would it help you any if l gav' you a little raise . say about S' more week." he was saying Then you could hire a woman tc help your mother out with the chil dren."
 "Of course, 1t would help bu think you're paying me all Tn worth now, Mir. Gregory" Mis- Briggs soft voice answered. He shadow appeared on the frosted glass pane of the door between tht two offices.
 Glory rose. She gathered her billi in one hand and opened the door Miss Briggs nodded at her, ant slipped out.
 HI ell 0, there, Rikky-Tillky Tavy." Glory greeted Dick cheer fully. She perched herself on thu corner of Dicks desk, "You'll par don me for breaking in on your in tcresting conversation with Mis- Briggs but I got tired waiting while she yamped some more sal ary from you!"
 Hush" Dick said. He walked over and tried the handle of thu door to see that it was shut tight