The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-29

rs there something else you want
to ask?" Lorene sale.
why, yes" Ellen conceded in a
low tone, She struggled a mo-
ment and finally got it out. SIS
that the regular starting salary for
assistant buyers?"
TITS the regular salary" Lorene
replied promptly and untruthfully
Since receiving Steven Barclays
instructions, Lorene, not unnatu-
rally, had been prepared to dislike
the recipient of his favor.
Ellen's innocent, embarrassed and
proud little question had changed
all that, promptly had made a place
for her in Lorene's affections.
Entirely treasured, Ellen ran to
telephone her mother. Molly was
in the seventh heaven. Everything
was marvellous.
When the girl returned to the
basement to remove her belongings,
she was so lighthearted she felt al
most giddy. What did she care for
the other girls now? She was an
assistant buyer with a salary of $50
a week.
In no time at all the insurance
would be paid again. Fifty dollars
a week! That was WEALTH.
Jenny was consumed with curios-
ity, eager to apologize, and to make
friends again, but Ellen gave her
no chance. She gathered UP her
comb, brush and the mirror she
kept tucked away under the counter.
She was pretending that Jenny,
Mrs. Bondy and all the others had
nothing to do with her.
She knew well enough that a
scandalous inference could and
probably would be drawn from her
sudden rise in the world, but she
would not think of that. Nothing
should be permitted to spoil her
pleasure. What the others said
could not affect her.
1t could, of course. But not then.
TURNING away from the counter,
H. her arms full of her small DOS
sessions, Ellen walked straight into
some one.
Il beg your pardon!" she said
quickly.
Aren't you even going to give me
a glance?" Larry Harrowgate ex-
claimed.
For a second she was bewildered.
Then her face lighted and her heart
leaped upward.
Larry"
tive been hanging around for
fifteen minutes" he was saying ex-
c1tedly. II thought you'd never
come. Here-lemme help!"
He attempted to relieve her of the
jumbled assortment in her arms.
Conscious of Jenny's open mouth
and equally open curiosity, Ellen
flushed and shook her head.
you shouldn't have come here"
she said quietly, moving away.
Aren't you glad to see me?"
"Of course I am, silly" she told
him with a confused laugh.
How handsome he was! She loved
the way he kept in step with her.
She loved his calm obliviousnesS to
the stir they were causing on the
floor.
They did look a trifie odd-the
handsome youth in flannels and the
girl in workaday store costume with
neat paper cuffs and sensible shoes.
Ellen knew that.
But she felt a delicious hutter as
he explained that he had learned
from Solomon where she worked
day times. That must mean some
thing!
1t certainly would mean some
thing if any one other than Larry
we're concerned. But for that
harum-scarum, she already knew,
to have an impulse was to obey it.
"Our old friend Solomon was
convinced my intentions were dis
honorable" he remarked impudent-
ly, glancing Sidewise at her. IT had
to tell him that I only meant to
carry you OFF to lunch. BY the way,
am L carrying you off to lunch?"
I'm afraid not" Ellen explained
with a serious and businesslike air.
1--WE a new job and I meal to
learn so much that I won't have
time today"
Nonsense" he protested. "Surc-