The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-23
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Beautiful ELLEN ROSSITER,
salesgirI in Barclays Department
Store. lives with her, mother
MOLLY ROSSlTER, her elder els.
ter. MYRA: and her young brother.
money saved to pay the rent
STEVEN BARCLAY, q man Of 81
and Ellen's employer. lends her
an evening dress 90 she can se.
cure n job dancing nights At
DREAMLAND.
At the dance hall she meets
handsome LARRY HARROW.
invitation to tea next day. Bar.
clay sends her roses. Distressed
that the gift 10 not from Larry,
Ellen quarrels with her mother
and sister. who openly favor the
wealthy Barclay. Myra shows
Larry's engagement to ELIZA.
BETH BOWES, q debutante. Bro.
ken.hearted. Ellen breaks her tea
date with him. She also returns
the drcss to Barclay and n dis.
turbed to see that he has NO In.
tention OF dropping their friend.
ship.
stu heartsick over Larry she
returns the next night to Dream.
land.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER x
ELLEN knocked at the door Of
Steven Barclays Office at i've
minutes past one. Under her arm.
carefully wrapped in tissue paper,
was the ivory taffeta dress. There
had been time enough. after all, for
her to pick up the borrowed dress
before going on to the store.
That morning in the basement
had been no worse than any sum.
mer morning. But It had seemed
to Ellen that the morning would
never end. had seemed to her that
before the slow hands Of the clock
dragged to l o'clock she would be
dead OF suffccation. The morning
had ended: she was not dead, even
though she felt that there was no
particular reason for continuing to
live. Life was tiresome and stupid
and unfair.
She tried to convince herself that
Larry had been only a casual in.
fatuation but she could not forget
how different tho morning would
have been If only she had not read
a newspaper clipping. IT only the
day could have gone as she had
dreamed It would. Even the fact
that she was calling on the "big
boss" that he had sent her flowers,
things which only the day before
would have left her trembling with
excitement. seemed dull and unim.
portant and completely colorless.
She knocked again. Barclays Sec
rotary. Ruth Tevis. q plain girl
whose plainness was heightened BY
heavy eyeglasses. opened the door.
"Mr. Barclay had to go out for
q minute" she said, peering over
the tortoise shell frames Of her
spectacles. "He told me to ask you
to wait IL you WILL"
When Ellen was seated in tho
dim. cool Office with the dress over
her lap. the secretary began fuss.
Ing unnecessarily and trifle ON.
ciously with the flowers on the rose.
wood desk. rearranging them, pluck.
Ing q leaf here and there and slid.
Ing the slender crystal vases On
inch nearer the center. She moved
= pile Of typed letters. awaitina
Barclays signature. to tho left Of
the desk. then back to the right
again.
"You were here yesterday. weren't
your" she asked casually.
EYES," Ellen replied.
She Wished the other girl
wouldn't stare 90. The steady,
near-sighted regard OF those pale
eyes was making her uneasy and
nervous. insure Of herself. Ruth
Tevis cleared her throat and opened
her mouth-to ask another cues
ton. Ellen was surs-just a. Steven
entsred.
He said impsrsonally to Ellen
I'm scrry I kept you waiting, Misl
Rossiter." =
And to the secretary. 'I'll cal
you II need you. Miss Teyis."