Nogales international., 1931-03-25
Ninth InstaIlnlent

Carrier her mother a lazy woman WIN HaS
<'seen better days" and her sister Doo.-
Tt.Srger's sweetheart who works IN a Deauty
iDarior, is stock girl in the "Mack" stores,
Thr Five e-and-Ten OF San Francisco. A boy
whom She knows only as Joe Grant
bot who is really Joseph Grant Mac
Keuzie Merrill, son OF the owner OF tne
sMack." is learning the business by start
7ug at the bottom He doesn't like the
;osS until he meets Maggie. And neither
~ them realizes that they are falling IN
hove with each other, at hrst Joe is I'M
pressed, however, by Maggies 1ntellgence
aud aoodheartedness, and gives ner aoVlee
.oU the subject nearest her heart, how 10
live. the ideal life She makes suggestion
for A better way of selling certain lines.
Vie teIIs his father, as if 1t were his own
idea. greatly pleasing the old man ne
ffnds that the girls he used to know ooll
interest him as much as Maggie docs, anu
1Then Maggie discloses her love IN ourSt
IS S@aIowsV he realizes that he loves her,
Toe is afraid that if Maggie finds out who
LsI really is she will not have anything more
IN do with him. So he pretends tnat % II as .
home in his big yellow roadster. ana on tne
x,,ay they talk, at last, about marriage.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
@And there's budget for two peo--
nlc begins on eight hundred year
Toe. I'm going to work it all out
Ee're going to put money in the bank
froxu the very first minute. The man
sxF,s. has an income of one thousand
ag,d saves ten dollars is ten dollars
.xScFler than the man on an income OF
twenty thousand who saves nothing
a year.
"Where'd you get thct9"
aTbat was on a card in the window
of tf,e bank next door to the Mack. L
see lot of those things" added Mag
y;e dreami1y. "But l never really
fl,Osght about them until | met you.
Yoc see, my mother and Liz aren't
much on ideals, and my tather-l
p,,ess." she added delicately, with
so,re hesitation, "is sorter influenced
81 Ma. But you-you seemed TO De
rmine, Joe, from the star!
Her pride, her joy as she SAID IT,
brought the tears to his eyes. He did
For the moment he aCaS Joe Grant
ne had never been anything else; Joe
Merrill. with his car and his income
and his magnificent home, was the
dream. This was the reality.
He interrupted her, kissing her
erayeiy. And then, without speaking
himself. although Maggie continued tC
chatter joyously, he drove her home
Toe went to his own home, anc
dressed for dinner like a man in
dream.
A week ago, or yesterday, he nigh
have gotten out.
But now it was different. He hao
kissed her, had his arms about her
spoken of her as his wife.
Maggie. Maggie Johnson. Living
in that wreck Of a cottage on Goa
Hill. pacifying and caring Tor tina
appalling mother, that commonplace
selfish sister, and that poor llttl
worm of a 1etter-carrying father.
@My Godl What have done?
said Joe Grant, half aloud.
"'What thinking of, Son?" his fathe
asked, looking up.
They were in the library, he an
f,is father alone together. And to HI
fathers surprised question, Joe coul
only make the sons usual answer.
Nothing"
Then there was another short S
1eace.
Nothing doing tonight, Dad"
81 may go over to Maxwelps lat'
they're sitting in a little game" h
father answered, with an aWkwal
little effort to appear interested al
cordial that touched Joe. "Brewe
ofsc Of our buyers, was to go to jap
for us on the ALIegriG next Saturday
he expiained. "And now | understal
that the wife's father has died al
left them pot of money-somethli
like tslat-and they're going to Nc
York" he said.
Losing him, huh?"
81 guess SO. They come and go,
course.' =.
"Weil, with three hundred and for
EMPLOYEES. that's natural enough
Joe drawled. :,
You've got 'em counted, eh?"
"SNeN, the six stores-and the q
vninistration ofice-wtlat have you s
down there? Seventeen or eighte
clerks? p
you wouldn't ever be interested
COMING down to one OF the StoI
with me, joe" his father began.
might interest you very much"
mo, thanks" Joe said then light
E1 couldn't start in the Stores--noV
His father nodded. The sudden
teSest and hope that had lighted
face faded. He instantly resumed
usual inscrutable, remote EXPRESS
again.
Joc laughed gruf1y, cleared
throat
That's where I am, Dad" he I
piaiacd.
1Youv% he presently said, in a Il
sharp tone.
@Suee," Joe said easily, grinning
MY boy How did that happen
''Of., well-you remember the bic
alp ia December, when you sent for
to come home from college alb
some bills? Well, the next day, | h
pegsed to be passing the Mack, AM
weot in; there was a sign there t
said Extra Christmas Help Wanted