The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-02

| smoldering hopes and told herself it
was a great thing to be associated
in a business way with such a fine
man as Arthur Knight.
Something about Knights inquiry
concerning the new girl the day he
first saw her stirred up this hornets
nest in Miss Tupper's mind.
Nevertheless she went quickly and
brought him the desired card.
It was just such record as most
large commercial concerns keep
for handy information about all
their employees. 1t was a white OBJ
long of pasteboard of the usual card
index six with lines crossing it hori-
zontally and perpendicularly. One
line said Name" Another said
Position" There were half a
dozen other lines which had been
filed in with neat tipping.
From this card Arthur Knight
cleaned information about his new
employe with which he had to con-
tent himself. Her name was
Judith Cameron. Gle had not known
even that much before.) She was
-surprisingly!-24 years old. And
she had been hired ten days
previously, and her salary was so
a week. According to the card,
Judith Cameron was single" and
her residence was in one Of the East
Sixties.
Knight could visualize the sort of
rooming house that address would
be, and his INSTALLATION was &C
curate.
1t was an old brown stone front
on one of the right streets, but in
one of the wrong blocks. Distinctly
wrong block! The sort OF dim
and dismal long row Of room1ng
places. all much alike, which crowd
in between the neat spic and span,
elegant brick edifices with awninged
entrances and impeccable door men.
AS matter of fact, Judith
sacrificed almost one-half of her
monthly income for the doubtful
privilege of climbing to the fifth
floor of her--dingy rooming house
and calling dim little back room
there her own.
Knight didn't know, Of course,
that Judith Cameron lived entirely
alone. Most of the young women
employed in the publishing house
shared furnished apartments" with
one or two other girls.
1t was the only plan which made
possible fur coats paid for in weekly
instalIments, cheap little copies OF
satin and velvet frocks bought on
Seventh avenue while the original
gowns were still being exhibited on
Fifth, new high-heeled pumps every
three months, and oh, so many pairs
Of fragile chiffon hose.
TINE prosperous publisher, lean
Il ing back thoughtfully in his
comfortable desk chair, studied the
card in his hand. There was such
incongruity between this lovely
young woman - "a - she really
wasn't just a girl any longer-and
the tawdry boarding house Of his
imagination.
Strange, the way her appearance
had taken his fancy. Twenty-four!
Arthur Knights face Sobered. He
brushed one hand backward against
his grayed temple. Knight had been
Is on his last birthday. The touch
of gray in his dark hair increased
his well-tailored, athletic good looks.
No matinee idol, Arthur knight
generally won feminine attention
for his handsome chin and level,
friendly brown eyes.
Another glance at the card. Miss
Cameron never had been employed
before. She had come to Hunter
Bros. on the recommendation Of
her business training school and it
was one of the best in the city.
Hunters made rather a speciality Of
taking on inexperienced workers
providing their recommendations
were satisfactory - and training
them in the business.
Old John Hunter himself had
established the policy because he
said it was harder to refrain a man
after he had learned wrong habits
than it was to teach him in the
first place. Also, of course, begin
nerS take low salaries.
There was two-inch space at the
bottom of the record card, and
above this blank space was the
word Remarks" Evidently in
Judith's case the employment de-
partment had found no remarks
worth setting down.
A vision of two Swallowed, mar
row blue eyes rose before Arthur
Knight. He pushed an electric but
ton on his desk and summoned Miss
Upper.
Il am going out for an hour or
two. If Cunningham calls from
Boston ask Mr.. Fisher to talk to
L.