Show E ERED L A YS o i iI h r t I J Cop Copyright t. t The he Bebb Tommy unruffled by her ber businesslike business like Uke reminder continued to view Betsy Bets Barbara Presently tho the pencil dropped from his hand band lie turned in his his' swivel II in ina ina ina called chair and Betsy a tone tono wholly inappropriate to office hours boun Being a woman she sho caught it Tommy North sho she said without J looking u up from the tho keys read read mo that motto o over your our desk desk II I Business Thou Thoughts in Business Hours read rea Tommy obediently Well Wail what does docs that mean menn asked Betsy Betsy Barbara And she sho continued to write tite respectfully ly solicit your our patron patronage patron ago age for the Thomas W. W North Agency I At least that is what sho she thought ht she sho was writing As a a. matter of fact what she sho produced was this fully funy cur patrona nago nage for Cor teh Rw North agency 4 But But what I want to talk about Tommy in a wheedling now r replied phed tono tone U is is a matter of business Ive I've been taking stock This fine going concern con con- tern cern made last month above 1110 light rent office expenses expense and overhead o charges That revolver re contract and that beauty parlor de deal l arc aro as good as permanent By Dr Christmas well we'll be making a a. week b be making corrected Betsy Barbara as she sho jerked back tho the typewriter c carriage e to begin tho the struggle g gle le e with another line tho the point of these remarks You ought tie ought he paused here here here- you here you you ou ought ht to have a share sharo If you'll kindly kindl turn your our eves to the panel beside th the door said Betsy Betsy- Barbara you'll see a t card which reads Business is Business Busine s. s The idea of S talking partnership to a mere stenographer ste cr who hasn't learned her trade hade tradel That isn't fair You always put me mein mein mein in tho the wrong somehow I You ou know vou ou Wo fo responsible for the whole thing I Who m made de me start this concern 7 Who ot of me to cut out tho the booze and anel go into business for tor myself i ii i II Well W replied Betsy Barbara a tract or a preacher might havo have none done aone jg that that anything anything which set Bet you vou on the tho way vt-ay at atthe the richt right tim time A And d you i wouldn't think of offering a partnership v to a tract ors or a fi preacher r. r r t Betsy Barbara called Tommy again ogain And rind on ou that name uttered d all too gently for lor the address of a stern employer to an inexpert stenographer ho rose and crossed to her side Somehow Some how she sho did not protest protest nit protest although although hough sho she continued to look Jook down on the tho keys Her fingers stopped Tomm Tommy 11 1 gulped 1 and und his first words t as 39 ho he settled on the at nt her ber side M ere eTe far from his ori original inal intention intention- pan a f from strict business a L 4 Betyy Betsy Barbara why Barbara why h did you yon von pIa play around that poor devil of an anIf fu l lIf If I r wonted lo to be ue impertinent I Id I'd a ask how liow that concerns y you vou u. u replied I Betsy Barbara saucily W Well Well ell because IP Jl liked him I suppose Y You Von n didn't t like him too well I in V j. quirt 1 Tummy or Of t course ui P. P not not flat now Im I'm just sort sorry florry i him she replied 1 Their tho t though h tR wL or r as Jr dray 1 she aim picked ui uit an eraser eraser ami and bh m furiously to tn eradicate t a figure rn 2 2 lie 1 she bad h-ad printed for fora a quota quota- Linn mark cc n Du Do you Yon remember Tommy pursued pur pur- I sued tho f the last time tunc I got drunk the thc the lust lavt lu t time 1 T over ever will mull i The Th bo buckle ni night Yc Yes 1 resulted re t icing with furious 1 and utterly incommensurate re re- suits But even c the tho noise bf the typo type 4 I writer could not silence Tomm Tommy now I 4 yAnd And when wIlen she she- came to the end of the line she ic IH stopped stooped again i 4 4 d ou u never It cr knew why of course j r s. s slid irl To Ut iH Do you remember some somer r r 1 onn O comin coming into the front hall and ng go going ng Bright right rJ ht out t attain acain That was wa I. I You were sitting I sitting I saw caw you looking at him himI I I thought thought- t- t You didn't think right responded Betsy Betsy Barbara She paused whilo the truth h in her struggled led against woman womans woman's s instinct to use strat strategy y in that branchat branch of at human activity which is woman womans woman's s chief chiei business The Tho truth won funn funny lunny You lou saw mo when 1 was nearer well nearer well liking him than him than I ever was before or after Ho lie was a a adear dear You couldn't help being a amused u cd and flattered b. b by him him but but nothing else cilia Why didn't you like him really really- what held you back Betsy Barbara p pulled Jed over tho the caro car carriage ar ringo riago tor another line not ine-not not with a a. Jerk this tins time but slowly and softly At Atthe Atthe Atthe the same sanie languid pace she resumed striking her fingers Betsy Barbara t this is business I Iwas Iwas was talking partnership I 1 didn't mean that kind You know oh blazes I meant why meant why did I brace up and go to work anyhow It was because you because you I love 10 you you there there that's out Betsy Barbara 1 her er hand still helpless between the keys kos and his bis greater hand raised her face If she had shone be be- ore fore with elfin light she shone now with the tho light ht of man many angels Tho The I sheen and glitter of her hair the fire I of or her ores eves the sparkle of her ner little teeth behind her parted lips lips all all the tho glory which makes stars star's and systems and md beasts and the J generations of men en illuminated and transformed Betsy Betsy- Barbara An instant so and that li t t faded T Te 10 c elfin light shone again ngam And AndI And And- North ro th she said are aro Tommy you I proposing to me right in business ours jours Get back to your seat Your answer will be bo transmitted to you in business form There Thoro was hope bopo and yet wonderment in n Tommys Tommy's face faco as he bo obe obeyed ed Betsy Betsy- Barbara tweaked the sheets from the roller roer inserted a new page age and began begano to o typo very cr fast for fast for her She finished She was suffused with color as she drew out tho the pa page c and laid it on Tommys Tommy's desk esk He turned to read and Betsy Betsy- Barbaras Barbara's 5 hand brushed his che cheek k kever I ever so 50 Ji lightly mR mB Thomas W orth Your pro dear sir is accepted and I l trust rust tha thu t the partnership will wilI willbe wille be e long prosperous Elizabeth Lane Business forms must be maintained even ven In tins tUIS solemn and awful mo trio said aid Betsy Well theres there's one thing about being a bi high h cop cop that's worth while remarked remarked re re- marked Martin McGee cOee you yOU certainly do get et swell attention in iii a lo lobster palace alace Inspector in his dinner coat and his diamonds sat i iu in tho the preferred I corner farthest from front the tho music Rosalic Rosalie reigning ning o opposite osite in 2000 worth ot of I s s. s SOO worth north of clothes I worth of massage and worth of at atI I hair hail lair dressing dressing- Iud anti hat lint followed with I smiling railing eyes a wave wa 01 of agitation which ran from front waiter to waiter until it broke at af the door in a s spray pray of Italian Italian 11 Pencil ench gestures n against the thc head waiter and md maJordomo The lad lady Jady with Inspector In In- sp McGee the lady whom hom he brought regularly regularly so so an excited waiter captain explained to his chief had chief had complained of a n tainted clam It was fri frightful terrific tho the head hend waiter rp rp- plied Somo Somo one must suffer Inspector tor or McGee might never noyer conic come again agnin Some morning after hours the thc bar would be je raided Machel lachel When McGee had bail condescended cen ed to ac accept accept ac ac- apologies he resumed to I I T have havo to for d oven even pay JU my New Years Year's eve e table reservations That's what it is is-bein is being is-being being a cop cool copl Rosalie dropped her pink right hand handon on her pinker left one and ana fell to playing laying with a now new diamond solitaire that hat dimmed for size and luster all hoi hew other othet jewels Her dimples threw back backan an answering flash t Enjoy it whilo while YOU vou can Mart Marty she said t. t It It wont won't be long Even yet vet Inspector McGeo McGee reflected Rosalie Lo Grange had surprises foi him lim He did not realize for he be o was no seer of tho the future that she would m nt giving ing him just lust such surprises all hi his life ife long new with you rou this time time he 10 Ie in inquired smiling r indulgently indulgently- with I me replied Rosalie only Im I'm news to you Jon ix b. is Ie as hl high h up as a policeman can get et Your Yom da days s on tho the force are numbered Martin McGee An I I haven't made up my mind yet ct slit she added dimpling now not on tho din dia diamonds monds but on him t whether to mala maJa you Democratic boss of tho the state senate or just dust lead leader r of Tammany Hall Halll That day was raw No November ember with 1 a ii awot I wet wot sticky suggestion of rain in the tho air From rom the colonial piazza where Con Constance Constance stance stood waiting the tho grounds collet I away cold and naked to tho the grea grem double gate A clue cluster ter of baro barn elms hit hil tho the farther reaches of tho the walk fron frolL her view lIe He who was coming approach uno unobserved gen d until bo he beas was as al almost almost most upon her In th tho whirl and perturbation perturbation per per- I of her spirit she found herself thankful for that Whatever cr happened happen cd it would come suddenly Rosalie Lc Jc Grange and every orv one ono else most vitally vitali concerned in the tho Wadea Wade Wade- Hanska paso had considered it best bost that sh she tho the too romantic heroine of these events should ho bo in hiding biding when Lawrence Law Law- rence renco o Wade Vade camo came out of oC the a Tombs a free freo man One Ono must consider tho the newspapers news news- always papers always tho the newspapers with th their ir photographers ra hers their their special writers their heir insistence on tho the human interest features of this celebrated case cas So 80 even en before Captain McGee flushed flashed to tho the headquarters reporters that Margarita 1 Perez Peroz croz detained In n the criminal ward at lo hospital was as the tho solvent of oC the Hanska ea case cane o Rosalie removed remo her secretly to this friendly country place near Arden Days followed fol tol lowed in which the reporters tracked Lawrence Wade at It t all nIl hours in order to discover him in the tho act of meeting Con stance In Iu that period ho he scarcely dared write lest Iet tho address on an envelope envelope en en- mi might ht betray her whereabouts 11 10 ow ow in the general march of events c the interest in in the thc Hanska case had become be come como dulled And today in this every hour ho he was coming with coming with what mes rites mes- sage rago on his lips Ups t tIn In the tho distance sounded the whistle of a n locomotive a n column of white whito smoke ro rose e above tae baro bare trees treel She Sho glanced at the tae watch on her wrist This s was s his train In five minutes s ho would emerge to view from behind that clum clump of trees trec In five minutes sho she would weal know inow Or would she shot The hopes hope the tho fears the sick fanC fancies es of a weeks week's waiting whirled in her mind Sho She leaned against one of the pillars for support whilo while sho she went over everything again To be concluded ed tomorrow |