The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-14
CHAPTER 37. WEDDING PRESENTS
"Waiter!" called Georgie.

She shut the bag with a snap and strengthened. A man nearby looked at her admiringly, at her high color and her bright, amber gleaming eyes. She wondered what he would think if he knew that it was anger that made her look her best-not the petty angers of the last few days but that deep, proud cold scorn that is like a sword
 ''Waiter!' Then, as he came hurrying to the table: Get me a taxi. And my bill!" She added to Tallas, without looking at him When we get to Rochester Gate you shall see MT, Matching alone be sure of that. shan't interfere in any way. And I'll tell my cousin what you said about her manners: it will amuse her"
 Even without looking at him she sensed his stupefication. His color was leaden and his mouth slack with the shock.
 You must have been very sure that you would succeed" she said almost idly. T can't imagine why though. Because you've never known what it is to keep a job by sheer hard work-win it and hold it and love it." She threw back her head and laughed Why, you poor fool, if I were a thousand times as selfish and greedy and ambitious as anna million times "a million, million times-I would never break faith with my job"
 By a flicker in his gaze, she knew that someone was standing at her elbow. She thought it was the waiter and held out her hand for her bill. But
 Wondered if there were any kind of difficulty, anywhere? murmered the cool voice of Garth Agency.
 She swung around in her chair and looked up at him. He was always hard to read, but she was pretty sure that he had not heard any part of the conversation. It was only that he had sensed trou- ble between her and the man who had half-risen from his chair on the opposite side of the table.
 She laughed again. She had sud- denly realized that there would be no need for Tallas to go to Roch- ester Gate
 This gentleman" she said to Agency, "has been trying to black maily me because he has discover ed that it was I and not my cous- in Jenny who married Eddie Town send last Saturday. He was threat ening to go straight to MT. Match ing but it isn't necessary-is it? now that you are here, I mean you can accept my resignation from the job here and now, can't you? And, of course, I'll see the Old Man tomorrow, after you have bro- ken the news to him. But I'm pretty certain that, secretly, he has known about it all the time"
 Look here" began Talles, get ting nimbly to his feet, there's no need whatever for anyone to make a scene"
 The rest of the pronouncement was Smothered in the scene that immediately followed; for one man cannot throw another out of a city grill-room without making some slight commotion, some passing dis arrangement of the furniture, and fittings. Still, Georgie was oblig- ed to admit that the thing was neatly done. One moment, Tallas was swaggering at the table and the next, he was not near the ta- ble at all. And the rest of his exit was to match.
 She sat quietly while she waited for Agency to come back to her She felt no emotion. She said tc herself-"I have lost my joblp but it didn't seem to mean anything Probably the full pain of it would be with her by the morrow. Al the moment, she minded more the peering curiosity of the other din- CTS. The man who had glanced SC admiringly was getting off the