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 head of the Wallack Fabric Mills
 Grumpy hired Honey Lou. no,
 only be cause she is clever. but be. cause she Is pleasant to have around. And Honey Lou likes every.
 one at the mills except Joe Meadows the shipping clerk, who makes love to her against her will at every op-
 portunity.
 Jack Wallack comes to work ir in his fathers mills to learn the l business. He falls in love with Hon. ey Lou's beauty the minute he sees her, and later with her sweetness and lovable charm. Brought up by an unworthy, old-fashioned mother
 Mrs. Huntley, Honey Lou is a rare mixture Of flapper and clinging vine
 At party given by Angela Allen she drinks her first two cocktails 1 thinking they are fruit punch, and passes out" While she is un- conscious, Angela calls her hard boiled. and tells Jack she had not two cocktails, but seven. Jack be- l 4AINNS i4Ci' dAih lOi n lOii6 lIIIle uOts not go to see Honey Lou again.
 Angela pretends to be her friend after this, and tells Honey Lou that Jack Is not the kind of man to be taken seriously by any girl, and hints that he once had a love affair with her and then dropped | her.
 Jack begins 10 call on Honey Lou again, but the matter of the cocktails is never cleared up. He is intensely jealous of Honey Lou: a one night when Dr. Steve May hew. friend of Margret's comes to the house in Margret's absence, Jack angrily tells Honey Lou she shouldn't have seen him and goes away. A few night later while Honey Lou is taking part in a Charleston contest just for a lark. he stalks out Of the theater where the contest is held, furious because Honey Lou was making a holy show of herself" as he says. Honey Lou decides to leave Wallack's, and goes to work with Margret in the office of Holy Cross hospital. One day she goes to tea with the willy Angela and meets Jacks mother, whom Jack calls The Head because she manages everything at home. She tells Hon. ey Lou that Grumpy" is not satis- fled with his new secretary. Ann Ludlow, the office vamp. The next day Jack asks Honey Lou to work for his father. who is at home sick with lumbago, and Honey Lou prom ises that she will.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XXI
 On Monday morning before seV- en o'clock the telephone bell peeled through the flat
 Its MT. Wallack for you" Mrs. Huntley called to Honey Lou, who was taking her icy plunge in the chilly bathroom.
 flask him ito give you the mes- sage!" Honey Lou answered through teeth that chattered. I'm in the t-t-tub."
 But In minute nef Hiolilei came back to the door of the bath room.
 pear, you'd better come. He won't give the message to me- she said. He seems to be in quite a rage-at least he sounds that way.
 So Honey Lou wrapped her fan ncl kilnono around her damp oody | and ran to the telephone. Her rect were bare, and the little curls that hohbed around her ears were dark | and wet. She was still shivering
 "Y-y-yes, Mir. Wallack. This is Honey Lou"
 She could hear him grunt at the other end of the line.
 q want you to go down to my office before you come to my house this morning." he told her gruffly' Get my mail from that French ! doll down there. and bring 1t to me here"
 Grumpy always called Ann 4hat French doll" or that female | talking machine" ,.
 Ann had neve: looked more llko | an overdrcssed doll than she dld | on that Monday morning when Honey Lou walked into the ofilce of the mills.
 sbe had on a dress of black shadow lace with q belt or green ribbon.
 Another band Of the ribbon was tied around her bright red hair i and she wore seven or elght | strings of imitation pearls with rhinestone clasps.
 Her round green eyes seemed to become more round and green when she saw Honey Lou come up inc iron stairs and walk across the floor to her.
 "Weu, for the love of Moses in the bullrushes. What arc you do- ing here?" she wanted to know She clappcd her handkerchief to her mouth, and secretly spat her chewing gum into it.
 q came down for Mir. Wallack's vail" Honey Lor answered. Its aWfuly nice to Sts Jou "S'iii' Ann. I've missed you this sum- lncr."
 She smiled ravishingly - she liked Ann in spite of her immod- est clothes, her chewing gum, ana her gimme" ways with men who were in love with her.
 But there was no answering smile on Ann's highly rouged race. Instead her eyes hardened until they were like green stones, and I sheer curled her red lips.
 "So that's it" she said, you're Inc doll-baby who beat me out ot the only good job I ever had in my Iifc,-I wondered what had nap pened when the Old Man told me [ wasn't to work for him any more. Now know! You took my 1oo away from me"
 "I did NOT" HonSy Lou de- oted it hotly. q wouldn't take any t,,z ioh auov from her. Jack