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Show THE BINGHAM NEWS Middle Weat. ha will be glad t iv you some kind of position. I do not know what kind of work It will ba, nor how much you can aarn, bat at least It will take cars of yon nntll yoa tarn get on your feet again. If yon have not the money to pay for your ticket, wire me collect, and my father will send it by telegraph. "It la only fair to warn yon that yon may hate to work pretty hard, for while my father la the kindest man In the world, he bellevea that every man should earn his wages. "Sincerely yours, "GERALDIN'B HARMER." CHAPTER IV And Jerry Dispose One lovely September morning, at eleven o'clock, a smartly dressed young man stepped briskly Into the office of the Harmer Motor company. He held his soft gray hnt In his hand, and smiled, as he said he wished to see Mr. Harmer, If you please. The charm of tary you might have got laundress or an Art Trailer." Jerry still Insisted, when sb thought of it that she would not work for the sake of acquiring money aha could gat that from her father. Bat she sat up nights figuring how she could cut down the expenses of her business. "That's different thing," she al-ways said. "The only way you can tell how you're getting along la by bow much you make." In July she started work on the sec-ond cottage, impatient to get It Into human, habitable shape before the coming winter. And In August she took an option, indorsed by her father, on a huge, d rooming-hous- e for women, the veriest skeleton of n house as Jerry saw houses, built with no more regard for esthetic satisfac-tion than a freight train, but with ac-commodations for two hundred women. Jerry worked feverishly over thut with a pencil and a pad of paper. If she rented two hundred rooms, at an average of thirty dollura a month, the earnliiKS of the house would be six thousand a month. If she paid twelve thousand for the house, spent five thousand muklng it what she called fit to live In, allowed a running expense of perhaps a thousand a month prior to making a sale outright Jerry's fig-ures turned to aureate dreams. She told her father she would bet any amount he wished that she could sell the house It was going to he for twenty-fiv- e thousand dollurs. Jerrold agreed with her. Prudence snld she knew right from the beginning that Jerry was right. So she bought the house, and in her new absorption In estimates, plans and figures, fell into a way of forgetting to go home for meals at proper hours, and lost a preposter-ous amount of sleep In her efforts. Jerry had returned to Iowa in March. It was early In September when she had her first letter from Rhoda La Faye. Rhoda was brisk and to the point. In correspondence as well his manner was not lost upon the young girl at the desk, who told blm with real regret that Mr. Harmer was In a very important conference, and had left word that he did not wUh to be disturbed. She professed her entire willingness to produce any other per-son connected with the establishment who could be of any possible Interest to him. But the young man shook his head. He said he must see Mr. Har-mer In person, and should very much appreciate the earliest possible mo-ment consistent with Mr. Hanner's convenience, of coursa The girl said she would see, and what name, please? "Duane Allerton, from New York city." She smiled. She had been expecting "New Tork city" from the moment she noted his entrance. She went away and came back almost at once, saying that Mr. Harmer was very busy indeed. stead, rising from a wide base In the rear of the living room and turning Itself about In some curious fashion finally to reach the top, where tha changes were yet more drastic. One sleeping room was entirely done away with, to be transformed Into a pretty Informal sitting room or lounge at the bead of the stairs, a novel and enjag-ing version of an exaggerated ball. Jerry felt she had never been so happy, and she had never worked so hurd In all her life. She encountered many ohstucles. Indeed, muny times she was appalled by them. It was hurd fur her to believe that human beings like herself could be so grossly stupid as to misunderstand and misinterpret Instructions so plulnly, so lucidly, so painstakingly given. - She was amazed to learn thut laborers, regardless of the delicacy of the work on which they were enguged, regardless of the Im-perative need of haste, regardless of the honor tliat was theirs in assisting to beautify and ennoble and elevate an Inherent weakness In the structure of their own home town, would drop a shovel on the stroke of the hour, and would even walk sturdily out on strike for a trivial detail they called a prin-ciple, b.ut which to her seemed a flag-rant breach of contract. She was pained and bewildered to discover that her carefully matured plans, set down In consistent black and white, signed, agreed to, and Included In the financial estimates of the con-tractors, turned out to be not at all as she had Intended, and that she was obliged to replan. reflinire and reallow CHAPTER III Continued 11 Jerrold looked at her. "I thought you didn't see any sense In making money you don't need. Just " "Oh. this Is a different thing I This Is well, I'm doing something for the money I I've got a right to the money If I earn it. It's don't you see how It Is, mother?" "Of course I do." "And think of the poor old house." Jerry finished pathetlcully. "After all these yesrs of being a barn, and a blot on the landscape. Just think how It will feel to wuke up some morning and find it is pretty, and lovely, and that people are stopping In the street to exclaim over it I Think how you'd feel if you were a house." Jerrold considered thnt too much of a strain on a business imagination like his, but he finally agreed that it was a sound practical proposition, and if Jerry had made up her mind to It. he thought it might turn out rather nicely all around. And he would go with tier the very next day to look It over, and get figures on It, and If It seemed all she said, they would buy It and pitch in. "Buy It I" Jerry repeated, In great surprise. "It Is bought I I bought It this afternoon. I gave him my five hundred dollars, and I don't have to make another payment for three months, and I figure that by that time I ought to have It looking like pretty much of a place. What I want the money from you for, Is to begin tear-ing things down." In order to develop her cherished dreams to concrete fact. And she was especially shocked and upset to find that there were things that a lather. In loyalty to his laboring brothers, would flatly decline to do, things a plumber would wash his bands of, things a plasterer would openly sneer at, things a bricklayer would consider an Insult to his profession and thus oblige her to deal with a totally new organization of workmen to meet the exigencies of the case. And she found the cost of her work mounted heavenward on soaring wings, and that her anticipated earnings sank with a corresponding ratio, in spite of her natural easy generosity, she soon When dinner was over, Jerry looked regretfully at the waning light. She should have liked to dash her father and mother out to look at the house right away, but It was too dark. So she pulled out nil the old House Benu-ttful-and spread them over the din-ing room table, and worked feverishly with a pencil and a pod of paper, sketching out little nooks and corners as she Intended having them In her finished product. "Lucky thing I studied Art, after all," she said brightly. "1 never thought I'd find such a real practical use for all that nonsense." Prudence hung over her with pleased solicitude, charmed with her avid .ln- - and that another hour, or indeed an-other day would suit him better, but recommending the services of bis busi-ness manager, who was available at the moment. Duane considered that report He took a letter from his pocket "Will you give this to Mr. Harmer," he asked pleasantly, "and tell him that I will return at any hour, or any day, he cares to designate? But I prefer not to see the business manager, un-less he Insists." The girl smiled, and went away with the letter, curiously studying tha ad-dress on the envelope. 8he was gone some time. There was something Ilka awe In ber face when she came back and said Mr. Harmer was waiting for Mr. Allerton In his private office. She pointed the way, and Duane Allerton, the soft gray hat still in his hand, a light of deep amusement in bis dark eyes, opened the door and walked in. Jerrold was standing up, the letter In his hand and the two men studied each other with equal interest. Jer-rold put out bis hand. "I'm sorry I kept you waiting," ha said. Indicating an easy chair close to his own. "In apology, may I explain that the young woman, my daughter, did not evidently deem it necessary to mention this little r invitation, to me?" "Do you mean to say yog dldnt know" "Not the slightest suggestion of a hint It Is news to me." Duane broke Into a short ptersed laugh, and Jerrold after a puzzled, anxious moment Joined him. "I like that!" Duane said. Jerrold shoved a box of cigarettes toward him. Each took one and lit It In silence. Duane leaned back com-fortably In his chair, and smiled at his host But Jerrold, under cover of the cigarette, was sharply appraising, re-marking the dapper smartness of Duane's clothes, the weave, the tailor-ing, the studied nlceness of colors and tones. terest. agreeing with every word she uttered. "I may not make such a lot on this one," Jerry admitted later rather re-luctantly to Jerrold. "Because I don't know how to figure down the expenses of it. But with the experience I get on this one, I'll make a killing of the next." "What do you mean, 'the next'? Is this the first of a series?" s Jerry pulled herself up, surprised. "That was a funny thing to say," she admitted. "I hadn't thought of a next one." She went on brightly, "But of She Hastily Pull.d Out a Pad of Paper and Wrote a Letter. aa in person. Her letter consisted of three paragraphs. The first told Jerry how very much she, Ithoda, loved her, missed her, admired her. The second told her that she, Ehoda, had Just been awarded the scholarship by the Academy for her picture, and was leaving the first of October for a year's study and travel through the art cen-ters of Europe. The third said that Duane Allerton, whom perhaps Jerry would remember, had lost all his money In a terrible crash in Wail Street, that the poor fellow was com-pletely broke, down and out, and up against It, as recorded In the dally pa-pers, that he did not know where to round herseir dickering constantly over trllles, arguing with great heat, even with anger, trying to cut down a dollar or so here, grudgingly allowing a dol-lar or so there, where she felt the ex-penditure must not be denied. "Why, I have . to argue over fifty cents, like any street peddler," she said to her father plaintively, regret-ting this new but necessary niggardli-ness of hers. "Already they've forced me up and up much farther than I In-tended. Why. If I don't stand up for my rights, I won't make five buadred dollars on the whole business! And the way I've worked over It !" "Oh, I thought you did not care about making money," he said. "I thought you snld there was no nobility in the simple earning of a dollar or so." "In the bare earning of It there Isn't. But this Is a different matter altogether." Jerry wns Joyously, mysteriously, passionately hnppy. She told herself quite often that she had entirely for-gotten Dunne Allerton. that she'hnd entirely forgiven blm for his vulgar In-solence. And she worked harder than ever. Within a month she took an op-tion on another wretched little hovel, moth-eate- run down at the corners, a disgrace to Its street, and Immediately began getting esti-mates for Its rebuilding, nnd making roseate sketches of Its future estate. Jerrold had taken her to his hank In the beginning of her business adven-turing and obtained for her an audi-ence with the president, Irvln Weath-erb-a member of Jerrold's club and his particular friend. Jerrold was ex-tremely businesslike on this occasion. course you can see that I must not waste all this experience, and If I can make a little on the first I can make heaps more on the second. So when you come to think of It, of course this Is Just the beginning." As Jerrold hud grown older, had learned to entrust bis ufl'alrs to others in his employ, he had gradually fallen Into a way of going steadily later to the office, so thut now It was customary In the home to have breakfnif at nine o'clock, after which Jerrold took his own time about getting off. But on the morning after Jerry discovered her passion, be found himself a tardy mem-ber of the household. Jerry pounded on the bathroom door three titties while he was shaving, urging him to make baste, and when he hurried down ut lust, to show her Indignantly that it then wanted ten minutes of the hour, she suld: "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I told them we'd have breakfast at eight-thirty.- " That was the beginning of Jerry's most feverish month. She bargained with contractors, plumbers and build- - turn for the next meal, and wos said to be looking for a Job, but of course couldn't get one because he did not know how to do anything. And wasn't It a shame, a nice fellow like Duane? And now he would probably become a tramp and a bum like other nice young fellows who nre left money they don't know how to take enre of. And with oceans and heaps of love-Rh-ode Inclosed voluminous clippings from the dally press of New York to substantiate the last two paragraphs of her letter. There were photographs of her prize-winnin- g picture, of Rhoda herself, and columns In praise of her and of her work. Jerry ungratefully tossed them to the floor. There were other and more sensational clippings recounting the financial troubles of young Dunne Allerton and his des-perate plight, with a tragically pen-- i'Do you want a Job?" he asked, hopeful of a refusal. "Yes, please." "What can you do?" "Lord knows." "Know anything about cars?" "I can drive them." "How old nre your "Twenty-seven.- " "How long has your father been dead?" "Twelve years." Jerrold faced him shrewdly. "Are you as badly off us my daughter seems to believe?" Duane hesitated. "Well, perhaps not quite. I didn't lose as much as the papers said. Didn't have that much." "Then your father died when you were fifteen. My impression would be that a man who conld earn a fortune, would hardly entrust his son's entire future to bis own disposal at fifteen." Duane flushed a little. "I hope y0U won't be such a poor sport as to tell your daughter that. As a matter of fact. I lost more than I could afford to, but my father tied Up enough to tnke oore of me, however much of a fool I might turn out." (TO B8 CONTINUED.) died sketch showing him, down at th heels, treading the rnlls as he would doubtless be a few years hence. Jerry read every one of them. She was trem-bling. She knew thnt was because she waa a tender-hearte- d girl, and even In her own bitterness of disillusionment, conld feel but sorry for the misfortune of any human being. The thought of a young mnn any young man alone In New York, not knowing where to turn for the next meal, where to lay his head at night Jerry had read of the mlserntile ones who sat on the benches In Central park all night and winter coming on It struck chill to her gentle heart. She hastily pulled out a pad of pa-per and wrote a letter. "My Dear Mr. Allerton: "A letter from my friend, Rhoda La Kayo, inclosing newspaper clippings, has Just informed me of your disaster on Wall Street. Ithoda says you are unable to get a position, and are wltli-o-ut funds. My father Is an automo-bile manufacturer and employs a great many men. If you care to come to the ers. She studied designs, she puzzled over matching colors. And in the end, the house of dreums that evolved from her tender thoughts was built on most engaging lines. Jerry was nothing If not thorough. The stiff steep steps leading up to her bouse from the street hud met with destruction first of all, and In their place developed a pretty stair that "went on the bins," as she said, angling up the green ter-race In a most Inviting manner, and then drifted up to the verunda which was extended around the house to the left, while the stiff square windows and the stltf oblong door In front were torn out for a sweep of graceful French windows. The awkward square parlor and par-lor bedroom, comprising the left-han- d portion of the first floor, were thrown together to make a broud living room, with window seuts all the way around and shelves for books and handsome built-i- rablnets. The staircase which had so purth'ularly annoyed her was completely thrown Into the discard, am) a verv hroad one erected In Its "I know you have met my daughter, Jerry," he said, "but I want you to get In touch with ber In a professional way as well. She Is going Into busi-ness for herself, and I am starting her off with a checking account of three thousand dollars, but should like for you to extend ber an additional credit of two thousand If she needs It." Jerry explained her business Inter-est with the Impulsive eagerness of her youth. And Irvln Weatherby looked at her, nodded his approval, sighed dismally at her father. "Ain't girls the darnedest, any more?" he asked plaintively. 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