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y'WW!" ' hciiiwi a girl why-can't he do it when, no body's round!" she complained to Maggie. "Well; say!" said Maggie. "I wish to goodness he'd take an interest in me." "Well, I'm going to resign," de clared lizzie, and stalked toward the private office. The girls waited. Exactly at the noon hour Lizzie emerged, a bright crimson, by the side of Simraonds, whose arm was drawn through hers. Down the aisle they walked, Lizzie crimsoning still more as all eyes were turned on her. So they went into the street, and Bill, the boy who swept up, reported at 1 o'clock that they were having dinner at Haffney's. "Well, what d'you think of that!" ejaculated Maggie to the rest "I ain't going to stay in a place where such scandalous happenings happen,?' answered the homeliest of them, with a toss of her .head. Lizzie Holt's vain and" childish mind was fairly turned by her em ployer's attentions. She spent the afternoon careless of the black looks of all around her. She was living over that delicious hour again. Mr. Slm-monds- certainly was a .gentleman, even if"Tie was old. And somehow, George and the troifsseau had be- gun to acquire a secondary impor tance in her mind. Before, they left iSimmonds had asked for her address. He had hint ed that possibly a visitor might call in a taxi for her some evening when she least expected it That was all Tie had said. But that night, when thereaction had come, the girl faced the problem in her room alone more seriously than she had ever faced anything. . She was not so ignorant of life but that she could see the, meaning of her employer's maneuvers. But she was ignorant enough to feel helpless. She could not face the crowd in the store again. Either she jnust be true to George or well, she saw the alter native quite jriajniy as the hours wore away. And to her credit the thought of George triumphed. k The next day she left "her rooming house and engaged a room in anoth er. She did not return to the store. She obtained a position with Mar shall's, and in a week she had com pletely forgotten the incident, except that she felt a little proud of herself as the heroine of a quasi-adventure. Behind the perfumery counter ox Marshall's Lizzie was in her element An attractive girl, she sold more goods than any of her competitors? Her salary was already $9 a week Two instead of one now went to ward thetrousseau. " Then one day a familiar figure en tered. He was an old gentleman with; a fringe of white beard and he wa accompanied by a very motherly looking old lady. They came slowly up to the perfumery ..counter. Sim monds looked up, to encounter Lizl zie's frightened eyes fixed on his. "Why, bless my soul, it's Miss Holt! Here, mother! This is the young lady I was telling you about who disappeared so mysteriously from the store." The motherly woman came up to Lizzie. "My husband has been talking, to me so much about you," she said. "I am sorry you went away. But I un? derstand how you felt You see Herman is a little abrupt and strange in his ways. Go away, Herman. 1 am going to talk to Miss Holt now, "You see, my dear," she continued, "we lost our only daughter a year ago and Herman was passionately devoted to her. And after you got tor working in the store he came honie and said to me, 'Mother, one of ouij new young ladies is the very image of poor Lucile.' fc "I told him that it must b& imag ination but he kept talking about y6ut and so I promised that I would call and see you. You know Herman Is always interested in .his young ladies, but he really felt lika a father tin ward you. And he knows how jwf $! k IMMHMftMAMMMiMI