Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-18

lOpe anu lOOkeu dC -Lne money Sne
had shaved for all week long.
=. There had been time when
she had spent that much, and more
every week on lunches downtown
and for gasoline for her car.
Now it must buy her food, pay
her rent, and supply her with what
clothes she needed.
So far, she had had to buy very
few clothes. The dresses and shoes
she had bought in Atlantic City,
months ago, were still smart and
fresh looking.
AS matter of fact, they were
much too smart to be worn by an
office girl in a railroad office.
May caught the other girls in the
place looking askance at her once
or twice. They seemed to be won
dering why girl who wore hand
made dresses and custom-made
shoes should be working for $14 a
week.
Any pair of shoes she haA cost
more than $14.F. that was plain
to be seen! And the other girls told
each other so in the Mushroom
where they gathered to gossip.
May knew that they gossiped
about her; and so she made no eff
fort to be friendly with them, al
though she needed friends.
She sat alone in the darkst cor
ner of the room. walled off from
the others by the filing cases, and
worked like machine day in and
dav out, for two months
Three or four times Gloria Greg
DRY telephoned to ask May out for
Sunday night supper. But May re-
fused.
She knew that she couldn't afford
to return their hospitality, for one
thing. But there was another rea-
son for her repeated refusals. The
very sight of Gloria's happiness in
her home had suddenly become I'M
bearable to May. She didn't know
why, either.
The men in the office began to
pay attention to her. Two or three
of them asked her to have lunch
with them, at intervals. In the
slang phrase of the office, she turn
ed them down cold.
Attractive young chaps they were,
too, but not to May. She had fallen
into the fatal habit of contrasting
all men with Ulysses Forgan.
This one was not so tall as he,
or so good-looking.
That one walked with a SLOUGH
while Ulysses was as straight as an
arrow, and walked with the grace
of trained soldier.
One afternoon a group of four
men walked into the office to con-
fer with MIR. Boulanger, the office
manager. All four of them were
the sleek well-fed, well-dressed type
of successful business man.
May found hrself comparing
them with Ulysses. greatly to
Ulysses advantage. as usual.
The truth suddenly flashed upon
her. she was in love with
Ulysses!
She was in love with him!. =.
That was why all other men looked
gray and uninteresting to her!
The friend feeling she had al
ways had for him. the feeling
of loneliness that lay like lead at
the bottom of her heart. that
was love and she had never guessed
it.
She sat there staring at the blank
wall in front of her, so wrapped in
her own Thoughts that she was una
ware that someone was standing be-
side her desk, until large roll of
paper was laid before her.
'Day dreaming, Mrs. SEYMOUR"
asked the booming bass voice of Mr..
2oulanger, the office manager.
Ell think was" May faltered
She looked up and smiled at Mr..
Boulanger, longing to slap his fat
face.
He had a way of looking at May,
of standing too close to her when
he talked to her, that was insulting
May felt very sorry for Mrs. Boul-
anger, a white-faced little woman