The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-11
by Julia CIeH-Addams

the same names. At a pinch l could tell hinl-ibut, of course, the pinch is not remotely likely to come. Only if it did well-Eddie would never know it, out there in Mexico. And you wouldn't mind would you? It wouldn't make the faintest difference to you? Would it? Well, would t?"
 "N-no" stammered Jenny. T suppose I wouldn't mind"
 She was taken aback, tingling with that sense of affront that Georgie could so suddenly rouse in her. How-how dared Georgie -coarse- grained, reckless, success ful-hcw dared she?"
 Then on the dark screen of her anger, slid the outline of tall man walking away from her with out forewell; threading his path eagerly round a crowded room to pass out at door through which Georgie had gone.
 aNo," she said heavily. '1t wouldn't make the faintest differ ence to me"
 Old Grafton Matching took up his bedside telephone, gave the number of the general manager, shook the instrument vigorously when no voice immediately an- swered him and, holding the ear- piece in position re-abSorbed him. self in his model dynamos.
 "Who's that?" he muttered ab- ssntly when at last the voice of Harold H. Croze came to him. NO, I didn't ring you up. Yes, I did" His voice climbed to its nerve racking squeak.
 "Yes, I did. I wanted you to know that my nephew, a complete stranger to my secretary, this eve ming offered her s25,O00 down, $2 25OO a year, half her salary-to repeat the estimates that have gone by plane tonight. And she refused and reported the bribe to me. Naturally she was acting | on my inStructions-who elSe's? .. You didn't know her salary was so high? Let me tell yol that unless she's fool enough to get married it'll be half as much again before she's done" His squeak became almost scream. ~Only person who can hear what I say.
 He threw aside the telephone, switched off the lamp and, fum- bling for a pear-drop, Lay sucking contentedly in the darkness.
 Jenny strayed into a park with gasp of gratitude. She had an hour to wait before Georgie got married; here was the place to wait in. She sat down on a bench and tabby cat came and began to slide around her. It was a fat, friendly cat and Jenny hoped IL would not go way; she would have enticed it onto her lap but she had on a clean voile frock. Not by any means a wedding garment-Geor- qie had been emphatic about the omission of wedding garments. 'If we can all three slip inland es- pecially out-of the City Hall with out attracting attention, we've a good chance of getting away with the whole scheme
 Yes, can see that. | should shink so long as Eddie isn't rec ognized we shall manage all right. It's afterwards, Georgie, when I'm at the hotel, that your secret will want such a lot of keeping.
 But Georgie had not admitted that. The janitor of the apart ment could be squared-heaps of people, if the worst came, could be squared. When Jenny had in stalled her belongings in the n1c- est room she could find in the nearby hotel, would she be a help ful pet and call at an employment agency about a really competent daily servant-and hang the ex- pense?. Of course Jenny would; and did. And by one of those chances that do occasionally hap lpen. before she had even finish ed eynnlaining Mrs. Townsend s lreouirements to the clerk, a cheer-y capable looking woman came In who seemed quite pleased to be en- gaged to start work next Mon- day.
 So that Jenny, who had allowed a full hour for the task, found herself at a loose end. She didn't want to go back to the hotel, which was stuffy; or to the apartment where Georgie, an efficient whlrl- | .-gz Il. 1.,