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Show 'I'm potting pretty soltd over nt the. office," said tho young man with thej amethyst watch fob, boastfully. '"That'B good," commented his friend with tho yellow shoes. "I didn't think you would be, but If you nro It's all rlghL" "Why didn't you think that I would bo?" asked the young man with the amothyst watch fob. "Oh, Just because." "That's a peach of n reason. What's tho matter with mo? Don't I look right to you?" "Oh. you look all right to me," admitted ad-mitted tho young mnn with tho yellow shoes. "I nln't Baying anything about that, but It ain't tho way a man looks lti his clothes that counts." "Well. It Is, a whole lot," contradicted contra-dicted the young man with tho amethyst ame-thyst watch fob. "It may not bo nil there Is to It, but If ou don't look nil right It's n handicap nnd don't you forget It. A mau has got to be n dtcssor." "That depends," said the young mnn In tho yellow shoes. 'Sometimes that cuts lco and sometimes It doesn't. Somo would Just us soon you'd look as if you was on tho hog as not, provided provid-ed you mado good. There's somo don't like to sec a mnn put on too much sldo with his clothoH." "They nln't tho kind l'vo trained with, nnd they nln't tho kind I'd want a stnnd-lu with," said his friend. "Oh, I don't know." "Well, I do know. Ninety-nine out ' ol every hundred il turn you down cold If you nln't rleht there with tho latest out. Yoifto talking foolishness If you ay thoy won't. That's what they look at. Youvo got to put a front." I "Well, you'vo got to make good, too," said tho friend with tho yellow . shoes "Yes, you've sot to mako good. Tint's all right. I'm making good. I want to toll you. I'm no clienp skato. I understand all about that part of It, too. You may thM: that you'ro wlso, but llttlo Willie l on to his Job." I "Well, that's r.ll right You ought to bo by thlH time." ' "1 nm. Any tii'io vou think 1 nln't you'ro going to get loolod." "Say, whut's the matter with you?" demanded tho oung man with tho yellow shoes. "Did 1 say you wasn't on to your Jab? ! wish I could catch I on, too. 1 do tho best I- can. but I don't seem to bo appreciated tho way . I ought to bo whero I am." I "Snioko up," Bald tho young man with tho amethyst fob; "you'ro slow. Thuro ain't nothing to It. A Jolly's what goes. . You got 'cm with a Jolly every time." "Yes you do ," "Suro thing you do. That's tho wayl I work It." . s "Got a boost yet?" "Got a boost! I should Bay not I ain't been thoro but six months nnd thoro nln't a man over got u boost . short of six years, 1 guess." "They've put you up from whoro you wore, though, haven't thoy?" I "In six months? I should Bay not, I'll do well If I get put up by nost Fourth of July. Tho troublo Is tho boss seems to have It In for mo Rood nnd hard. 1 don't know why ho shMild; I work about uh hnrd as nny o! 'em, hut ho's a sort of old grouch nuywny, 1 and I guess If ho onco tukes n notion ho don't Ilko anybody ho sticks to It. No, Blr, 1 nln't expecting any boost Just now." I "Say," said tho young man with tho yellow shoes, "what kind of n game nro you giving mo, I'd llku to know? First you toll mo that you aro solid with your boss and then " "You're nutty," declared tho young mnn with tho nmuthyflt watch fob. "I nover Bald 11 word about the boss. Mo solid with him? Well, I guoss not. I I waa talking about tho llttlo lady with tho yellow pompadour -hat pounds tho I typowrlter over by tho window across I from my desk. Why, you know her. I pointed hor out to you tho tlmo you woro In to hco mo nnd I told you then I was going to try to win hor out. Woll, If I nln't solid thuro I miss my guess. Her and 1110 has got to bo pretty good friends by tills tlmo. Why, sny, pal, I thought you know what I was tulldr.j; nbout." "I ought to havo known you wasn't talking nbout what I thought you was talking about," Bald his friend with tho yellow shoes. Chicago Dally News. |