| Show S ROB EDEN EDEN- THE TilE STORY SO FAR Sally Blair with a talent for get- get ring ahead in the world has secured her promotion from a 20 a 0 week typist in the sales department of the theDa Da Davidson vidon Insurance company to a 55 a week position in the executive of of- of Ices Sally means to td have the things she wants out of life ana ann after she nas nac gone as far as possible in business business bustness busi bust ness she aims alms at a millionaire hus bus band The only prospect in her mind 15 is Harvey T. T Davidson millionaire widower who Is the big boss However However However How How- ever Sallys Sally's ambitions didn't keep from falling In lit love with Peter Douglas an attractive yo young ng insurance insurance ance salesman She would have married married mar mar- ried ned Peter except that his mother estranged them Linda Davidson has hasa a crush on Peter and Mrs Douglas approves the match 1 I Sallys Sally's official title was assistant to Erma Brown who was assIstant t to Miss Crowder However in Miss Crowders Crowder's absence Erma became Kent Ropers Roper's confidential secretary transacting the more intimate things In his business and Sally took his letters and dictation She liked the work All AU the nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous strain she had felt with Warner was gone Ropers Roper's office ran easily He was cheerful kind always and considerate of his Roper never ne rang for tor anyone unless he wanted him whereas Warners Warner's buzzer buzzer buzzer buz buz- zer was busy all an day The rite first morning when the office was so quiet when everything was WIlS so sowell sowell well regulated Sally couldn't believe her good luck Those two weeks with Warner had been horrible This was heaven compared to toO them This Its wasn't work This was play find Mr Roper very nice Erma said after she had told the girl what her duties were to be Everybody Everybody Every body likes him Its It's Harvey Davidson Davidson David David- son who scares sc us to death Not that he le has a temper or anything but hes he's such a hard man to get to know Sometimes he says good morning and more af often n he doesn't Just looks through you as 1 If you didn't exist I shudder when I have to take dictation die dic ta tation tion from him him and and I ha have hae e to sometimes when his secretary Is out Miss Hiss Crowder doesn't mind him she likes ikes him but then she knows him better than I do She's worked here a long time Erma was as about 30 O rather ather dashing looking with her jet black lack hair hah and big dark eyes She took ook a fancy at once to Sally TALK OF MR DAVIDSON Nice to have somebody young around I get tired of Miss Crowder's Crowders Crowders Crowder's Crow- Crow ders der's platitudes She's all aU right but S she's awfully proper I dont don't know why she keeps on working anyway She has lots of or money She told meonce me meonce meonce once Mr Roper had given her some good tips on the market and shed she'd cleaned up You can you OU know if you have any kind of a stake stoke Yes Alice Crowder Is very canny with her money She saved It It and then hen she Invested it It wisely wisely She's great on making budgets Made one for or me Inc once Sally led Erma ETma back to the subject of Davidson as gently as she could You say Mr Davidson Is hard haid to know mow Yes Yes Yes you'll you'll see what I mean when you ou bump Into him One of the these e ormal formal sort of men You cant can't break breakthrough through the shell sheU hes he's built up about himself Oh he thaws out for Mr Roper and for his daughter daughter but but that's hats about all Of or course he might thaw haw out for his social acquaintances and relatives I I dont don't know anything about that t. I only know him as I Iee Iee Isee see ee him in iii the office Do you see him much SALLY IS CONTE CONTENTED TED TEDA A couple of times a day when hen hes he's In n town I always speak to ta him of aC course but he never acts as if 11 he knows who I am although Ive I've taken dictation from him a a u half hali ii dozen iIi times Imes Never looks at you when you go into his office Just dictates his letters etters ao a as quickly as he can without taking his eyes of off his notes notes notes-he he I makes notes of everything everything and and i when hes he's through dismisses you Mr fr 1 I Roper will chat a while Hes He's very I affable Another thing about Mr Roper I If he likes you ou hell he'll do anything any any- thing in the world for you ou He He he doesn't expect you to ta go out with him does he Sally hated to ask the question but from her ex ex- ex with John Warner sh she thought she ought to know Gracious no no and Erma laughed You Yau needn't worry a out bout anything like Uke that Sally inwardly heaved a D. sigh of re re- re ller At least that was something The certainty of or knowing She Sh wasn't quite through questioning Erma Enna yet Mr Davidsons Davidson's daughter daughter what's what she like She knew what Linda Davidson Davidson Da Da- looked like but that wasn't enough nough She wanted to know more see her She conies comes in over ery now and then Never used to toO bushe but bu she has a crush erush on some boy in th the stiles sales department so she comes a lo lot now noP Mad about him I guess Shand She Sh and her father Just got home from froma a trip around the world I heard Mr Davidson took her to break up some som affair and as ns soon as she gets back she he Jumps Into another The lasone last las one CIne was with some pseudo coun caunt around towns town Mr Davidson dIdn't like It at all all but he couldn't say an anything any any- thing so he lie took her away ERMA LIKES LINDA Erma answered the phone which was ringing then continued with he her description of Linda Pretty as a picture hair and kind of yellowish brown eyes Young too about 21 One of these young things with a lot of time on her hands Dresses like a million dollars and makes you envious as th the very devil Nice though She's al always always al- al ways was pleasant wh when n she con comes es in I Ike like ke her You Yau will too You'll se see e her tier soon Sally didn't think shed she'd like Linda but jut made no more comments on th the matter Even at the mention of ot he her name a a. surge of Jealousy shot sho through her How casually Erma Si-ma tad had said that Linda had a crush on some sonic boy In the sales department I As If it didn't matter who It was Some boy When the boy was Peter Douglas awfully generous and sweet Once when she came In I admired a areck reck lace she had on on and she gavIt gave It to me Erma continued Said sh shwas she was RS tired of or It anyway Another time f f said Id I'd like to see a certain show forgotten now what it was and sh she sent ent over some tickets You dont don't forget people peaple when they're like that As s different from her father as night nigh and day Did you know Peter Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las In the sales department Yes Yes Is Ills he nice Yes Yes saying Peter was nice when she rhe he loved him so Pretending he was wasa a mere acquaintance Sally hoped Erma wouldn't see the flush lush that was WM mounting on her face She knew 1 it was there because she could feel he her cheeks burning LINDA VISITS TIlE THE OFFICE Well that's the boy Mr Roper Rope asked me Saturday If I had ever seen him Said he was the latest flame name of or Lindas Linda's The whole office gossiping about abou Peter and Linda Everyone interested inter inter- est ested d. d She picks out the queerest people to ta fall In love with First the coun who wasn't a count at all Danced In a night club Then this salesman person who Is nobody a at tall all No use telling Erma that she was wrong That Peter was charming and lovable able Not Nat a mere nobody as ns she thought Indeed Sally couldn't couldn help admiring Lindas Linda's taste even 1 if she was going around with Peter Perhaps the count too had been Interesting in interesting In- In Late in the afternoon Linda came In In n. n hatless stunning In a blue crepe dress with five sables caught together er Into a neckpiece over one arm She flung Jung them on Ermas Erma's desk as If they were ere nothing at all and i reached cached fo forthe for forthe the he phone smiling a greeting at both the girls Can I use your phone Daddy has a board meeting and theres there's a delegation in his secretary's office Sally watched her covertly Linda was really very pretty a freshness about her a charm about the nose the freckles the clear tan of her complexion the hair hall like dull dul copper She saw aw the eyes th that t Erma Erina said aid were yellowish brown Th They y were Little flecks of oC gold Jold In the irises rises Then there was Harvey Davidson's Davidsons Da Da- I Da-I chin which she Ehe had Inherit Inherit- cd d. d A stubborn chin small but inherit inherit-I rec rec- from the larger cast of or Davidsons SALLY IS JEALOUS The two girls couldn't help hearing the conversation Linda made no effort to lower her voice olce Sally sat fat at looking at the girl her hands limp on the desk Linda had asked for Peter Douglas In the sales department Then when she got him her face softened and her thin lips smiled sInned into the receiver Its all fixed Peter Yes all f fixed I Well We'll leave Friday about 4 4 and well we'll be back Monday morning Just a small party and Ill I'll have havoc Daddy fix Ix I It ii t with Mr Warner so you can get of off You needn't worry about any any- thing And Peter Peter Peter-I'm Im I'm upstairs now Ill I'll meet you ou at 5 30 at the usual place Bye Bye Bye- and the receiver clicked on its hook Peter and Linda were week-ending week some place A whole week end Friday Fri Fr- day until Monday morning Sally's Sallys hands were trembling as she clasped them together Forgot your furs Miss Davidson Erma called after Linda as she start start- ed for tor the door So I have have have- She took look the furs Erma handed her and went out Swell week end ahead of Peter peter Douglas Erma commented thought thought- fully ully I didn't hear him turn it down Lucky devil And the Merlin la Is s a a. beautiful yacht acht How do you know they're going on the Merlin Sally Salty asked quickly Mr tr Roper told me this morning Mr Davidson was going on a cruise this his week end Linda and Peter on the Merlin l the decks In the moonlight together Three nights Friday I Saturday and Sunday To be 00 continued Hard liard for Sall Sally The man she loves goinG on a week-end week cruise with mth another anther an an- another an- an other ther girl girl girl-a a girl who has everything |
