Show I Compensation Kttiullnda was pretty as a pink In it florists winnow Sho had real gold hair n dimple in one chock and the kind of a neck you can wear low collars col-lars with She was little and dainty and gentleand not so very capable from the office managers point of view Of course If the manager hail been younger and not married Ethelln da wouldnt have lost her Job Bu he was oldish bald and married and didnt like the mistakes Ethellndi made In addressing letters Hone she received the blue slip In her salary sal-ary envelope on Saturday night Lena Nagel on the other hand didnt remind you at all of a pink In a florists window Not that Lena wasnt attractive In her way but Il was more the way a nice granite Ironware Iron-ware cako pan In a house furnishing shop attracts you That Is to say sin I was neat smooth and usefullooking and a little square at the corners Bu Lena could always get a Job and keep It Thprf was ono other thing about Lena that didnt show at first glance and that was her kind heart and n i good part of Its affection was placed on Ethcllnda On a certain Monday noou Ethel Inda not having appeared at the special spe-cial table where the two girls ate their oyster sandwiches at lunch time Lena was greatly worried Likewise on the next day she was yet more worried for Ktliellnda still came not AccordIngly Accord-Ingly on her way homo at five oclock Lena stopped at the big trust company and Inquired what had become of her goldenhaired chum The news of her dismissal was a i genuine grief to Lenas honest heart and with characteristic kindness she set her mind straight to work to find a way to help her Sho thought and thought and thought There was no < vacancy in her own office and it was the very worst time of all tho year to lint a place People were weeding I out their forces rather than taking on help And remember Ktliellnda did make mistakes In spelling and couldnt he given tho very highest kind of an Al recommendation So Lena kept on thinking Some days went by and EtliclimU stopped in to see Lena at lunch time Her face was a shade less rosy thai usual her dimple was out of commission com-mission and In her eyes was the pltlfu look of discouragement that conies after youve tramped through the agencies and from one office to another an-other with a bunch of cutout advertisements adver-tisements in your purse finding nothIng noth-Ing but a chance to copy lists ol names on the typewriter at six II week As Lena saw her friend Into the elevator out from the same stepped the chief clerk who gazed so hard over his shoulder at the little gold andplnk vision that he ran into the Ice cooler and acutely barked hh shin Lena marked tho gaze and a plan for the solution of the d Irultv flashed llko lightning Into her nlnd I That evening she paid another visit I to the Trust Company and applied for Miss Dimples vacant desk The manager man-ager scanned her neat German braids her powderless nose and her generally unadorned appearance He made la quick mental calculation of how much time probably would be saved to tho office in consequence of these details not to mention an economy In telephone tele-phone calls and a vacation for tho office Ice mirror She got the place Tilts being settled tho rest seemed easy and she could hardly possess her practical soul in patience until site could put her plan in operation Next morning she hunted out tho chief clerk bright and early But why do you want to leave us Miss Nagel he queried when she had plunged through her resignation Were very busy Just now you know and I dont see Oh I can send some one right away to take my place she inter rupted Silos a special friend of mIne too nnd why you may possibly possi-bly have noticed her hero yesterday she stopped In to see 1001 i The chief clerks hand reminiscently raIsed Itself to adjust the managerial tic nnd ho thoughtfully regarded thereon the-reon sock that adorned his barked shin A change camo oer the spirit of his words I Oh was thaterwas sheahem do you refer to tho young lady I caught sight of as I stepped oft the elevator She certainly appeared very Intelligent or and very neat anderqulte so Well of course MIss Nngel If you are obliged to leave us 8And And so Ethollnda came and Lena departed Oh you darling girl How can you b 0 so good to me I dont see how you over thought out such a wonderful home I was so discouraged Lena But I know Ill never bo clever enough to tako your place here Dont you worry about that The chief clerk knows what hes doing take my word for it v But Lena persisted Goldilocks in an unsteady small voice youro go lug to got a dollar a week less over at the Trust Company and Im ashamed to i let you make such a sacrifice The businesslike Lena firmly grasped grasp-ed 1 her friends wrist and drew her close oseListen Listen while 1 tell you something Its no sacrifice Its selfishness My elnrlch Is tho elevator starter over i mat tho Trust Company building Maybe thuts worth the dollar a week to me Iwhat 1 |