The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-11
by Julia CLef-Addan,s

1 faint laughter that mocKed ant
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 I'm afraid our secretary can b< rather alarming" he said. He had a number of applicants today for jcoS in a new department anc he has got b. above himself. How is your husband?" She started.
 Do you mean Eddie?"
 of course I mean Eddyl"
 Eddie is-1 don't know how h5 1 is He has gone away" The ele- vator stopped. She stepped into the long, dim corridor at the enc of which, she remembered, was Georgie's room. DO you employ married women, ever?" she ven tured desperately, not daring tc turn to him as he walked at her shoulder.
 Want a job?" All the old laugh ter was hid in his voice. If I did and I were competent would you give me one?"
 T should be harmed, personally but I couldn't give you one here If a girl, here, marries, she goes Hasn't your cousin told you?"
 Yes, but I thought perhaps there might be an exception. Sure ly if Georgie married" For heavens sake, don't sug- gest such a catastrophel She's pi- loting me through the stiffest week of my life, and it's nothing to what lies ahead, now my uncle is handing over to me almost en- tirely."
 If ne is handing over to you haven't you got the power to- to make an exception?"
 He drew level with her and they faced each other at the door let tered with Miss Revell, Private D
 I'm afraid not. Not that kind of power, so long as he lives. Even Miss Revell-" His eyes flickered quizzically towards the discreet shining door. Even she would have to choose between what do they call it?-love and a career? Let's hope she chooses the career, every time!'
 "Yes, I see"
 And I don't think I'd better promise to get you a trial any, where else, because so many peo- pie ask me to pull strings that I've had to steel myself to a firm refusal all round. You see why, don't you?"
 "Yes, I see"
 s'Then-goodbye"
 Goodbye" he echoed.
 She watched him walk away. He was taking her whole life with him and he did not guess it. To him, she was just a little fool try ing to wheedle pocket-money job out of a man she had once vamp- ed.
 She stared after him. One clear call would bring him back. "Geor- gie-not Il It was Georgie, not II"
 And then he would apologize and ask her to make merry at his wedding to Brightta? Perhaps? There was no reading the riddle of him. The only thing that was certain was that Georgie, who had taken her from that terrible at tic, would be repaid by losing her job.
 "Good-bye!" whispered Jenny again. She opened the door and slipped through. Without any emo- tion, she realized that she had de- cided, or perhaps her decision had been made long ago. Deep under the turmoil of choice, it had per- haps always been there-inevitaole that she should stand by Georgie.
 Loyalty and gratitude, these things mattered enormously. These were the things then, that she chose. Goodbye. whispered her heart to that other, that wild, sweet chance. In her dreams she might see love, with shadowed face but in her waking days, never!
 Georgie waited impatiently for Jenny to come in. She could hear her voice in the corridor and then Aveney's. Doing the polite. she thought. Good job the infant isn't smitten with him. It seems certain he'll be the Deer ing woman's next"
 She paced the long, splendid room, running a hand through her hair, lingering before the high windows. She had had a heavy day and she was uneasy about the evening She was to dine-and it had been an unusually worded in- vitation.
 Come along in!" she exclaimed when at last the door opened and l. rl