The Fort Peck press., 1935-08-01

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of mind.
The girl said: "It's the usual charge
for an express train"
Her tone was cold and short-likt
her little nose. The remark even seem
ed to turn up at the end with a toucE
of impatient disdain. But Michael die
not mind; like everything about hel
it was lovely. He'd have welcomed ar
insult from her if it broke the ice.
He considered it definitely cracked
now and began to explain how the Ger,
man in which he read Goethe dldn1
seem to be any good for asking fol
another towel in a bathroom.
The girl yawned at his brightest pas
sage and asked the sleek mar II ne
was sitting on die Woche. The way she
took it said plainly: Even this is better
than blaa!"
Michaels eloquence conked. 1t was
destructive to suffer that sort Of thing
from that sort of a girl, for n had a
beauty that gave SnubS a nasty cutting
edge. She was corn fair with a lace
like a piquant little nun. She also had
one of those strong, long llmbed flgureS
that told the dark haired Aryan hat
the Vikings had had all the best of it IN
the matter of mating. 90.
Her name was enticing, toO-SteIIl
He'd heard the steam pressed mar call
her that; besides, he'd taken a good
look at her suitcase. Steffi Myrtens
was the full name, same as the mans,
whose name was also Rolf-her brother
no doubt, so there was no fear on
poaching. The other girl was just Lena
something.
Lena something-and rather a sport.
AS Steffi yawned over her paper ana
Rolf smirked m~aliciously, Lena's voice
-I.z-11 -D,,~ 4D hic hnd0yl1n6 hr41n.
ats a matter of accent" she was
saying. you'll get used to- it in time.
Even I find it difficult, for my Ger
mans Austrian"
He grabbed at that: Austrian, Ell;
are you going to Vienna, too?"
"Why yes" she said, and there was
a touch of eagerness in her voice;
which was queer, for she was with
friends-more than friends If roll
Myrten's attentions to her meant any
thing.
The chap, in fact, seemed to resent
her talking to strangers, for he drop
ped his sneering aloofneSs to cut IN:
"You know Vienna?"
Never been there before-or /
Europe" said Michael.
"Holiday trip, eh?" There was a jeer
on the full lips. The chap probably
had got so used to the American tourist
that he didn't think the states exported
anything else, though why he should
imagine Americans fools enough to
think that February in an inadequately
steam heated Europe was a bower OF
ioy seemed beyond reason. Anyhow,
Michael corrected him.
"Just business-I'm over to see a man
in my line in Vienna" :.
stopping for dinner, too, I suppose,
the man said and Michael couldn't tell
whether it was his foreign accent that
made him sound Sardonic or merely a
nasty soul.
Didn't know. I've got to go to Buda-
pest and Prague, too. But I'm not lee
for time"
That was for Steffi. She had put
down her paper and he hoped it was
because she had gathered that he was
a person of wealth and importance
eager to make the most of the pleasures
of Vienna if accompanied by a suitable
person. Steffi merely yaWned again,
said it was time for madagascar, n
the three of them went off to the din
ing car, leaving Michael to blink at
the bleak and wintry landscape and to
realize that all the frost wasn't out
there.
But he hadn't given in. Steffi was
too pretty and his wasn't the nature to
Ut CdSl1H DCoUCll. l. 11to ttOO oOA@
the output of Landers Drugs in de-
pressed times by backing out of offices
at the first Nothing doing" from buy
erS' secretaries.
eff you can't get in through the door
marked PUSH there's generally a way
through the one called Pull was his
business slogan and when he found
Lena in the corridor after lunch he
applied the principle. Let him get to
know Lena and Steffi should follow
in due order.
Lena was willing. She looked cur
iously lonely and cut off as he came up,
and she swung round on him with her
previous strange eagerness when ne
spoke. And she wasn't so bad, he ad-
after two minutes talk. Not
Steffi-naturally; yet away from the
sheer dazzle of Steffi she had a quiet,
frank prettiness, not to say a touch
character, all her own. The sort OF
girl who grew on one. A nice glrl.
The kind that married without think
ink of divorce. And oddly, though ne
had started out to interest her, he
found she did it better than he.
1t was the story of his life that oc-
cupied the next few running miles. The
saga of how he had stepped into the
shoes of Lander senior and made even
Big Business great. How he vas now
out to make Landers Drugs interna-
tional. She had the deepest as well as
the prettieSt ears to listen with. She
even fascinated by the wonder, use,
manufacture, and romantic prospects of
commercial chemistry. When he drew
rom the specially tailored pocket of his
coat the leather wallet that displayed
MS firms specialties in a neat array of
Jest tubes, she was delightfully."- aWed.
They look" she smiled, and she had
he sort of smile that seems to put an
arm around you, they look like so
many genii imprisoned in magic phials."
well, they are genii, most of them"
laughed. "Genii of the practical
chemists magic, ready to do the
worlds work, like that little tube of
soda there. Some of them are
wen more poWerful-slaves of the
poison ring that can kill at a breath"
Don't lose those in Vienna, will
she said, though I hope you
lave a great success with the others.
suppose there are great chemical buy
RS in Vienna?"
"You ought to know that better than
he said.
"I? No. T know nothing about Vien-