Evening star., 1943-05-02

OF WAS J. Hamilton Vme's day of triumph and he was
enjoying it hugely 1t wasn't often that company M
4 stalled as its president after Turing him from rival
m the exclerk had ignomniously fired He won
ded what the obsequious wewishers would think they
ew for rs yet only other person shared his secret his
secretary, Miss Sheriff..
Thoehout the morning Flexo Steels ocialdom paraded
m and out of his Office, offering congratulations
Glad to have you with u.s. J. H..
"A pleasure to work with you. Mr.. Vane."
"You can depend on our fullest cooperation j. H. =
The King Dead Vme unused pleasantly Long Li'e the
Kinel J. Hamilton orn plain John) Vane monarch of
all he surveyed and he felt very happy about the whole thing
Not bad for barely turned forty. Not bad at all
He looked up as Miss Sheriff. into the office, and his
mouth which disgrtled competitor had once described
as steel trap in block of granite, broke into boysh
grin well Sherry he said to the secretary he had brought
with him to Flexo Steel, have run out of admirers
Il think that clears them up J. H. Miss Sheriff. was both
pretty and Efficient but it the latter which earned her
seventyve dollars week On the spur of the moment Vane
would have been hard pressed to tell you the color OF her ha
which was lovely golden blonde her which was twenty
sixor seven
Il believe I'll skip the Office boys" He stripped
dark brown cigar of its oelophane vestme held 1t to
Miss Sher,ins profe1ed match. and took couple OF
satisfied p1s Il think I'm going to like here, Sherry
F1exo's big enough to be fun"
Ruth Sheriff. smiled. J. H. was an overgrovm kid;
shrewd hard boiled ruthless when he had to be but
still kid And FlexO toy A colossal Electof
set It would be fun all right For him. But not for ~
F1ero's oompetitors And maybe not for Calvin Hen
deson.
The Henderson business had really surprised her.
Eieteen years was long time to stay angry even you had
good grievance to begin with H. had his share OF faults
but she had suspected that vengeness was one OF
them Veaeeflness was and J. H. was any
thing he was expansive He ate. drank and worked ON
heroic scale; pettiness was alien to his nature.
EvEs in the privacy of her thoughts, Ruth was little
ashamed of being IN love with H. Such banal situation
ulot for NOVEL The handsome executive absorbed with
his fiscal dreams The devoted but napprecated secretary
Seven reels of oeluloid hcatbeeak
The moves Of course, always knew how to resolve that
sort of sitation Girl ii she good girl always got
bow But no resoceu scenario writer came to her rescue
She had been with H. for six years and she knew without
6attrnk herself that she had become as nearly mdispes
je se1etmially speaking, anyone could he depenoeo
a her to eliminate the oorny phrases from his correspond
ee sought her advice when there were gifts to be bought
for maiden ants he considered her excellent Judge OF
es and had got rid of some of his aocous creations
an her say-so And he called her Sherry instead of Miss
Sheriff."
But any tenderness crept into his of the nick
name It was the Mice Fido variety. and small consolation
to a woman IN love.
Ttere vas however small solace in knowing that she
had no rival there was other woman in H s life 1t
even cmfortine in chilly sort of to think of them