third Installment .J. TaImml vtkOM father is a lettcr lr k tbf domestic drt*J$e of the humble ?WxVherTO&cr does little except ?JlEtSTSe *?"?*? Utter -L?.-d b*r iiater Lu. who work* t:1 * 2.1, T?, u?a *M u??- M?gg?e has to ? JL <a_ji. before sht starts gj7 ?rr?k iTIke fu^t*.. < c.?t nu,'. ? uw bojr at the Five and Ten. Jm Grant. Ht tell* that he ha.< -een inigrr/ to work ? her hdper in the ??? ?*? roo_ |Mm rather dumb, hut M".;tjie help, hi* through bit K,r?t <i?y at t!ie lore 23gfc?ree her Tuach with bim in a ci.l'hy etc of a ptMe that ktoflm to ? f"a;tr<'ss ?i#tj aWt door I# the Five-aiid-Ten. NOW GO ON* WITH T^E STORY "Oh, sure I do! I read it in a paper," sbe said, beginning on her < wn mftk, and talking through, or around, the straws. "You have to eat iron anf starch and?arkl fosters, she snuj, somewhat uncertain of the last w< ""d. "Iron and starch and?what?" he Mked, fishing for the extraordinary word. But she would not be baited. "All sorts of things," she said eva sively. "These sandwiches are tuna fish and egg?they're always the ones that arc left. We never feet the chicken or ham ones, but we don't cart. do w??" she ended a fotle anxiously. "1 don't!" Joe said, ravenous. "How'd you happen to find this place?" he asked, approving of it. "1 was after some ideels in our base ment " she said. "An' I seen this win der. Ain't it nice in here?" , > "Y?o were after some what! r.e interrupted. "Some ideels. Some of them little? weM sorter prayers they have all coloured op, on cards." Maggie ex ulained. "Like 'No man is useless while be has a friend,' an" 'T<j earn a little, to spend a little less, an There's so much good in the worst of us.'" she went jm. But at such lightning speed that Joe could not ustka a beginning or an end to what she said. He burst out laughing. "You laugh like you were much ?1?W than you are." said Maggie, ot k with some sudden suspicion. mi almost twenty," Joe said. "Why -how old did you think I was? "I thought vou was a kid." Mag gie said frankly. "That's." she endod innocently, "that's why I sorter took an interest ill you." "How old are you? Joe countered. "Are you thirteen?" Thirteen!" she echoed, affronted. "I've bftn w or km" four years. 111 be eighteen my nTO birthday. 1 was seventeen last Valentine's Day!" And suddenly both were embar rassed, and tTOy stopped talking. in some confusion of spirit. "But when I first went to work," 11 ayyir resumed. "1 was avvt'ul liftic. I opened a door an' checked unbrellas. You'd wonder they let me in at all*. Three dollars a week, they paid me." "Pretty tough!" Joe commented sympathetically. "Oh, I've had my share!" she re sponded. "We ought to have some thing green with this," said Maggie again, A tending toward him a tiesh supply of the broken biscuits. "Where'd you get all tKis diet ?tuff?" Joa asked, diverted. "Oh," she flashed carelessly, "the evenin' papers has it, always, a health column." "But you don't believe all you see in the papers!" Joe teased. "I do some things," Maggie coun tered uncertainly, after a moment's thought. "And do you do all tlie things the papers say to dor" Joe asked. "I'm doin' one now," she answered, moving only her lips. "I'm relax in'. Relax ten minutes after meal*, if you're thin. Stand if you're'fat. Ex ercises every mor'nin'?" "We have twelve minutes." Joe said, Llancing at bis wrist. "And do you tlieve all the ideal cards, too?" he pursued. "How do you mean?" she asked. "Weil, don't they all have rules for life on them?" Joe suggested, "'l est we font,' and 'I ain the captain of my toaW and all that?" ?"Was you readin' them to-day?" she asked, surprised. "No. But I know that kind of *ufft" " 'Let us then be up an' doio, Maggie was murmuring, as if she beard the words for the first time. ** 'Laugh, an' the w arid laughs with you. "Oil, gosh, it makes me sick at my stomach!" Joe said faintly, between a laugh and a groan. Maggie laughed, puxzled but sym pathetic. ? "It sorter doesnt mean anything, site conceded. "But the 'Si sezzes' ?re tunny," site submitted doubtfully. "The what s'" "The 'Si sezzes'?we call them that,/ the elucidated. "They all begin, 'Si I ? ??X. ?? ? "Bunk!" Joe commented disgust edly. She was storing at him, faintly sus picious. "Joe," she began after a moment, "is this your first job?" "What makes you think it isn't?" he parried. "Becauz?becauz fellers of nineteen don't usually begin on what y< u're 4oin', stockroom work," said Maggie, 'specially when they talk like you t Joe," she added, concernedly, as they do.' "I worked on a farm awhile," Joe said. "And I traveled with a circus and worked in a bicycle shop," he added imaginatively. Maggie was sati> led. She reverted to a more interest nig topic. "My mother say* hat all that news paper stuff about bi.dgels and systems and all that is tlu 1'unk," she offered. "My sister has to keep her hands white bccauz she demonstrates a beauty cream, and my mother don't Ket round much." "fiut my mother don't like Liz to use make-up?and walked toward the corner together. "Next week won't be so hard. An* I guess it felt pretty good to get that pay envelope to-day, didn't it?" she asked encouragingly. "Sure, it did," Joe answered briefly. "Do you go up?" the girl asked. "I live on Goat Hill over there?my father waits for me at the corner, Sat urday nights!" "I live down the island," Joe said. "The ideal life?oh, my (Jod!"' he said, thinking of the hard job she had left, of the sort of home to which she ??as probably going. "You've got a she won't let me cut my hair?she f fine chance to lead-the ideal life, Mag says it ain't ladylike for girls to bobigie Johnson!" Joe said with a bitter their hair." ' lauyfc. 1 v \ i \\xf "if ^ a j?jaaita 'The way to be ,in livji* the idCv* life L?:Lo begin/* she rc^d slowly. . __ ' . ? .... _ _ .... . . . _ . >s ... "Father living?" Joe asked. Siu- hesitated. "My father's a?a won I. rftil r:n;i. Yes. he's living." "What's his pro.\ss?w!:nt's he r.v" Joe asked. * tic?he's a trnwllin' man." S <n> how she wanted . >e t>? ;:(]<? '*? p " \nil im mother's- llrshj." >rii-! May ljie delieatolv. "Well. I'll tell t ? ?MV thin'!." <; id Inc. as they hesra to ?'?"! <*" ni? tk: sijjtis i.f (luir l<. t air' j:ii'.*?re t" return upstairs t" tin- si ?u'. ' I'M tv?: you f?ne thittf? f wouldn't like yoi:: sister." "Oh, Joe. why iut I" "I don't know. I just Uiviw that I And here's auothci that hftdgct ' and system and ci utney talk is all I true." Magpie's beautiful blue eyes widened j almost a? n m pai.i. . "Oh, Joe, I don't believe il!" she: I said again. He was cross. "All right, don't believe it. what do you think the new sp;;. print it ior:" "You mean so much ior groceries and amusements ai\l clothes ai.d (ion tists?" she demas.led. a?rc:.tiiig hii-.i with a small clutching iiand on his arm. _ " , "Certainly!" ?*> She seemed to'cVoop. i "My niuther'd i> ver do it, though!i She hates mana; i. "Well, iKvause j'-nr m? t!ur wouldn't, do if, Mai-tie," 1:.: said unpleasantly, j "doesn t it::?ke it '? s true. does it:" j "Xu." 5-lie said idly, bruily. Audi Joe suddenly felt ;? turned ?ii himself. I He gave her a .te.i;ly.n;j hand as I they scramhk <1 hack through the two { windows, and over tile talcs and boxes in their own basement, ju.st in time to hear I he gong emit its sharp double ring. Hut'once again in the roar and rush of the store ;p.stai's, he noted that she did not unite re..tore him to the familiar looting upon which he had been before. At ten o'clock two old women, armed with pails and mops, made their ap pearance tar at the back of the store, and purchasers began to take on a slightly apologetic note. Then, suddenly, a gong struck, and a hundred saleswomen were jamming through the black back passage, |>ast the enormous service elevator into the wet street. Joe, stooping toward a heap of rubbish that was advancing steadily ahead of a charwoman's wide broom, picked something up and cut through-the crowd to follow the sod den little coated figure that was Mag gie Johnson. "Here," he said, handing her a ben' card. "I just found this. It wa thrown out. Since you believe every thing the newspapers tell you, how's this ?" " 'The way to begin livin' the ideel life is?to begin,'" she read slowly. And she looked up blankly. "Begin what?" she asked. "That's all there is. It don't finish it." fit's all bunk," he said, trying to laugh. "Well, I don't know, Joe!" she an swered. with a flash of animation crossing her pale, dirty little face. "What you said to-night made me kinder wonder. I've been doing all I these things about eatirt', and exer cise. and washin1," she said eagerly, "but I guess this thinkin' is just as important. I've been handtin' them ideels, and crawlin' over them, and, hearin' about them for three years, an' to-day's the first time I ever really j looked at one! I guess you're tired,' I I Ik turned ai?ru;>t1y and walked a I'-kstru'd i>: we>l\aid. 'glancing be ; hie! !:lx:: ti? Ik .--hiv lx- |i'id escaped I !)?.- j.icpa-tide from the Mack. I V(i*! i'! th<- second 1?1? * . !'? stopped i lr rt ;it a hand-. ?iue roadster. parki*d i '-tvMrt' a row ??i unpretentious homes. S !..(? "nt in!-. ii. r h ?! a l ev from ' in':?(?!. fV'.'iii the -treet. ! Tin- iwsrrc 1 tin- b?v. ear moved ? .i i:? tli". ;? >? -it" ?< in ,t!u city. passed 1 and :*.su i^cl' r\ ?!:>trict and .he M-aU.-ri I li?ht> <f the >ul? ; ?:?! cuiV 'c i l'K' splendid trees ,?,.j ;ji ? r :<t Si; I vates of l\hn j isifda! ?. h"inr oi i!i<- uci:e<t aii.l most I f '.-isi ?'.!#]> nuii .nvl vv?i!iic*l? of that particular part of the world. Im between certain magnificent posts <?f tone and brick went J<*c and his car, sial the side <!? >? 'i ??i" ? >ne\ oi i'iv most !!:!;?osinj4 oi ail tin: 'i anions divre. Au elderiy butkr, admitting wii'iuint question the dirty an<! weary s'tock boy of tin. Mack, ver.'ured so 'ar as to lay an eager, welcoming hand ,i hisj arm. "Mr. Joseph?Mr! I'm glad to see ? ?u hack saiely. :.ir. What with?" :;c coughed delicately?"wh.it with the little Ui'-pieas'-nts'tv. yesteivUy snurn ing. si.', .ui! ;? oin -your very emphatic rtdmi'ks in me. . ir. On tile subject o ? y iii' parents'? cdiem!?attitude, and '.in.ii \i?nr ji-.t tv."::ins list night or to-day. cither i <? luncheon or din uei "I'm all>rt;y|bt. VI' :i. and,you were a l)i i k to Ik*j'41 the i?-b tulet me in. I'm late l>rcau>e I ; -t a job." 'You mean von real lv arc working, Mr. Joe?" ' < "I lilean I really am." "Von'rc not going back to college, sir "Not on your liie!" "Why, but look here, sir," pleaded - ihe older man, distressed, "your father never meant a word lie said yesterday moruii)g( nor your mother, ei?ier." "Allen," Joe interrupted, slipping his arms into the dressing gown the man held ready behind linn, "can you keep a secret?" "Anything you told me in confi dence, sir " he began rcluctantlv. "Well, then listen. I've got a job in the Mack Merrill Department Stores ?the Eighth Street one.". "A job in the Mack Merrill Stores, sir?" The butler was actually pale. "In the office, sir?" "In the office nothing! In the shop. Carting wall papers and ink and clean ing brushes and earrings around the place. I'm going to show my father that lie can't stand me up in a corner and throw mud at me! He can't call me a thief and a liar???" "Mr. Joseph, sir, he never called you hat?I didn't hear that," the horrified old butler interrupted. "Hear him! Everybody in the neigh bourhood heard him! No. sir. he doesn't get away with it," said Joe. "Now, you nm along, Allen, and keep mum, and tell 'em I'm all right and I'm home!" ' ; The meyage was unobtrusively car ried to a handsome middle-aged man, who was playing bridge with three other men in the library. It pene trated into a luxurious dressing room, where a beautiful and aristocratic woman was making up her face be tween a dinner dance and a late ball. This woman merely raised her eye brows at the news. And in a little while she mounted the flight of wide, palm-decorated stairs that lay between her suite and his. and appeared, cxjiectantly, in his doorway. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK Legal Blanks for Sale at Journal Office FREE! FREE! YOUR 193-1 LICENSES A TRADE STIMULUS OF REAL VALUES GOES WITH EVERY USED CAR SOLD IN THIS Trade- Getter BARGAIN SALE OF Used Cars Good Business Dictates that Used Cars Move ? Public reception of the New 19:11 "Bigger nn 1 Better" Chevrolet Six has been enthusiastically favorable?in fact, greater than at any time in our history as a Chevrolet Dealer. Good business dic tates that we further reduce our used car stock so as to be able to handle properly the scores of trade ins being offered 011 the new model. For that reason we have cut the prices on our used cars & in addition will present to every pur chaser of a used car until January 30th a set of licenses free. Santa Clans himself never treated you better than we are willing and prepared to do. This is your opportunity to get a car that will gn e vou comfort and dependable transportation tlu u ? the winter. 1931 LICENSES FREE PRICES CUT /IRST Our sale will be successful only if we offer real bargains, so we have reduced piices on our fine stock of reconditioned cars. C ^ THEN FREE GIFT ADDED Then we offer vou FREW vour 1931 Licenses ?? * as our erift to you in this Sale. Buy from us be fore January 30 and we will funds li vour !icens< s. hi ? Here Are a Few of the Splendid Bargains 1930 Chevrolet Coupe, new casing's. excel lent condition . $425.00' Late 1930 Club Sedan, latest nu del, wire wheels, perfect condition $625.00 1930 - A Model Ford Coupe in splen did condition $325 00 1929 Chevrolet Coach, good casings, an unusual value $325.00 1928 Chevrolet Sedan in good condition....$250.00 1929 Chevrolet Sedan, fine upholstery, a real bargain $375.00 1929 Chevrolet Coupe, good paint, uood casings, a good car $250.00 1.927 Chevrolet Sedan, this is a spend i . I buy$225.00 1929 Chevrolet Phaeton, this is a mi; htv good car L. $300.00 1927 Chevrolet Touring, lms had the best of care, an exceptionally fine car $225.00 1929 A Model Ford Roadster, good mechanical condition. $230.00 1928 Chevrolet Touring, very serviceable in every way ; $200.00 1928 Oldsmobile Coupe, a verv fine car and a.bargain | .....$225.00 J rucks?almost any year model from $150 to $400.00 Jackson COMPANY Rylva, North Carolina

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