The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-11-14
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By CORONA REMINGTON
Mcclure Syndicate-WNU Service.)
A S BOB WELLINGTON looked at

OF delight passed over him, but this
was Immediately followed by a
sense Of depression and despair.
All golden and flowing she seemed
in her little russell sports suit that
brought out the high lights in her
dancing eyes and even accentuated
TIE saucy little freckles sprinkled
across the bridge Of her nose. He
liked those freckles immensely, he
wanted to kiss them, but hesitated
because the feeling of despair had
followed and he considered himself
unworthy to kiss even one little
freckle.
What you thinking about?" she
asked looking quickly up at the big
man at her side.
Just that you somehow blend in
with the radiant autumn colors
around US See that big oak tree
ahead"
Fibber"' she interrupted, laugh
ing. That wouldn't make you look
so solemn You looked almost mis-
cradle; decided maybe you weren't
enjoying the company"
We'll, COMFY. was thinking and
have been thinking for the past six
months that I'd love to-to-kiss one
of those little freckles of yours, but
| have no right to-Tm such a failure
in life The words seemed Wrenched
out Of him and he looked away as
he finished
Failure. Bob" She put a SYM
pathetic hand on his arm. What
makes you say that?"
Well, you know I've lost both
positions I've had since I've finished
college and Dad says I'm no ac-
count. not steady. yet in neither
case was it actually my fault Last
time the elevator boy forgot to call
me in the morning and when l
walked in at ten o'clock old
Etheridge fired me without waiting
for an explanation or anything.
And the first time l sassed the boss.
He had the wrong idea about doing
the thing and ! told him so and l
was right. the whole office knew it,
but of course | had no business
showing up his ignorance that way
and before his employees, too. so /
walked out before he had a chance
to tell me TO get out. Dads been
terribly down on me ever since, says
he spent plenty putting me through
college and that I'd been better off
as a messenger boy. l guess he's
right
COMFY laughed at him, a gay rip
ping little laugh.
Silly" she chidcd aloud while in
wardly she gritted: I'D like to
choke his old Skeezicks of father!
Now. how about the next position?"
she continued.
There a wonderful opening with
the Hydraulic Power people in Sagi-
nae. but it hardly seems worth while
for me to go after it.
bob Wellington, you are Ounce
after all, You've had the best
training in your line that money
could buy. You're intelligent and
have a pleasing personality. You
will go after it, too, and you'll get
it. Talk them into it. and try to
sign up for a year. then see if your
father doesn't change his mind
about you. Why shouldn't you have
it? You talk as if you were some
little tadpole at the bottom of a
pond instead of great big wonder
full man Now, when are you
going to Saginac, tonight"
"If-if-I should get it, will you
marry me. COMFY
I'll marry you whether you get
it or not-becauSe l know you're
going to get it," she ended. And
if you don't mind stopping min
ute looking shyly down at her
hands, my freCkles are - lone
some"
You're the best little sport that
ever lived" he said a few minutes
after the freckles had been comfort
ed And | know now that I'm go
ing to succeed. never had so
much self confidence in my life be-
fore I've got to go through with
it now l will"
Starry eyed and radiant COMFY
saw him oil at the train. That night
and .he next day she spent In
wretched anxiety while she waited
for news. He would get there next
morning and would probably go
straight to the Hydraulic Power
people. say about nine or ten
O'Clock. BY noon she should hear.
but she did not Not word and he
had promised to wire Immediately
after the interview All the after
noon she stayed home waiting for
news. Every time the door bell
rang or the telephone she would
jump and run to it. but it was al
ways something else, and it was
late that night when the message
finally came. Frantically she ripped
open the yellow envelope and read
the lines:
Failed. What shall do? Bob. "
COMFY swallowed a lump in her
throat. dashed away the burning
tears and rushed out the door and
called the messenger back.
Tackle him again tomorrow,
she wired. Make him give you a
trial. / know you can get 1t IN the