The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-25

who hired me to work for him
wouldn't exactly think you knew me
well enough to recommend me-"
well" he saio gravely. 'joking
aside, l promised you job tomor-
row some time, and l mean to keep
my promise. All ask of you is to
lie still till the doctor comes on his
roundS-when is that, Nurse, about
eleven o'clock? Well, I'll be in about
twelve, and if the doctor says you
are able Wen go into the matter
and get it all fixed up. Now, shall
we just let it go at that, and will
you be good and not think about it
till tomorrow? You know. yesterday
it was too late to do anything about
it, and l naturally couldn't see any.
body on Sunday"
Il know" she said. looking trou-
bled, land that is why it seems as if
I'd better go out, too, because you
know, l might just happen to land
something and go right to work. And
you can't, of course, be sure that
you'll find anything"
IT beg your pardon" said Greg
gravely, Il have job for you now.
You could go to work tomorrow
morning, only that there are few
little details I'd like to settle first.
But if you must get active tomorrow
I'll promise you it can be done"
Really"
"Yes, really. I'm going to give
you Job myself"
The nurse looked up with interest
while he talked. and he could see
that the girl was studying him.
This is purely a business propo-
sition," said Greg. I'm working
this out entirely for my own inter
ests. You see, thought if we could
rent an Office, maybe in some nice
old lady's house. get her down
stairs parlor, you know, and then
perhaps you could get an upstairs
room and board right there. then
rainy days you wouldn't have to go
out at all unless you wanted to. l
thought if we looked around we
could find some place like that
where it would be pleasant for you
to live.
Il know the very place, said the
nurse eagerly. There's a dear old
lady on Twenty-third street. She
owns her house. She's lived there
ever since she was married. It's
not far from the business section,
not a fashionable residential sec.
ton any more, and she can't seem
to rent her rooms. But it's a real
nice old front house with
big pleasant rooms. l know she
has great big front room; in fact
there are double parlors that would
make a nice office or double office"
THAT sounds all right" said
Greg eagerly Does it to you. Miss
McLaren? How about you, Miss
Gowen? Could you get off duty to-
morrow morning and go with US?
/ think it would be a good thing for
Miss McLaren to be introduced. I'll
bring taxi and come for you at
1870, then. There'n be few things
I'll have to attend to before that"
"It seems wonderful" said the
girl again after he was gone. do
you really think it is all right?"
"Of course" said the nurse. He's
all right. He's real man, you can
see that And anyway, how many
rotten employers have you seen
since you landed in this city? You
had to take your job where you
found it, didn't you? Well, you've
run away from one. You can al
ways leave again if things are not
satisfactory. you know. But just
know they are going to be all right"
So Margaret ate everything on her
supper tray happily. and went to
sleep with a smile on her lips.
Late that night the head nurse got
back from her weekend vacation,
which hadn't on the whole been par
ticularly satisfying, and went on du-
ty early the next morning with a
sour look upon her face.
And the very first thing she did
was to walk down the hall to the
room where Margaret McLaren was
eating her nice breakfast and fling
the door wide open.
Whats all this?" she cried in a