Show c. o I j jc V lev I Te Landed Z Y c Terry ry g 1 z a Big 1 Risk a 4 4 5 Y J t By Dy JANE OSBORN 4 o 0 O Copyright S O O II Terry thought she was vas wasa vasa a good insurance and solicitor and sometimes she thought she wasn't As she fhe sat tat patiently In the reception room outside Mr lr Bertram Carrs Carr's private office that January morning she was WIS quite sure that she was wis not She had sat sut there for an hour and twenty minutes min min- utes mites The diy day before beCore she had sat there In precisely the same chair for foran nn an hour and on severn several I d days s 's before that she had Stat sat there until she she every Cry single mingle and antI crevice of or the well well- furnished reception room by heart She had been told that no one had hade e ever etl er been able to sell Mr Bel Bertram Bertram tram Carr life insurance insurance lie he didn't carry any life insurance whatever r. lie Ile was thirty five fi c and a bachelor Terry TellY had been unable to got get Ct any interview V with him b by telephone She Sue couldn't get him to to- cons consent nt to 10 s sec e her ilex on fin any t pretext she had been lIcen able to invent ill So 10 now she was simply wailing trailing to tp see sec him hint Other Othel da days s 's when she had silt sat there she had simply Simpy h had d to give up before he Ile came out or 01 else he Im had COl come come out so quickly and find brushed by her sro v abruptly that she had no opportunity to sa say a wor word Today Terry was determined de de- to get an ari- ari interview Shi had lint sat there for an fin hour and a n half and lied had it t seemed to her worn away awny almost an entire entice pow powder er compact and anda a quarter of a lipstick just keeping In constant readiness lerr Terry was thinking of those things when Mr 11 Carr Carl office door dool was quickly quick quick- I ly iy opened and with two long steps he was in the reception room Terry rushed forward She knew she was waa too pretty prett to be brushed aside I 1 would like to see jou just you just a I moment She smiled her prettiest and tried to get his e eye e 1 I 11 1 madam said Mr am am sorl sorry ma am I I Bertram Carr looking appealingly j toward the time reception desk but I am nm rus-hing rus to an important engagement j If you'd oud be so good as to give your our i name I think my secretary can see i you And then he was off and Terry Terryn j I Iwas I I n was wag as no nearer wearer seeing Bertram Carr Curr than n ever i Oh Oh well there Is more than one J. J wa way to s sell 1 insurance said the more I than Ulan mid middle aged aged le-aged Miss Larson whom i I Terry encountered In one of ot the offices offices of or I of the Insurance company for I which both worl worked ed Your Tour line Is to I gool good looks s and prettiness looking like I Fifth Firth Avenue and Cleopatra or some- some i thing all the time Now Kow my approach up- up IJ Is entirely different Some Som Someday day lily when I get the biggest haul I go around the shabbiest I could no nomore more mOle 0 hope to get m myself telf up like hike you on than you jou ou could hope to place an any policies if you jou ou di nt SUI Sury y the tile drab looking drab looking Miss 1 Larson Larson Larson Lar Lar- son had i nt intended to annoy Terry t but Terry CITY 1 amlO annoyed ed and felt all the more d cry e time tine she thought of what the tho older woman had ll said It wouldn't 11 1 lime have C mat mal m mated l ed red s-o s O much if she site had succeeded v. v ith Mr 11 c. c Carr 11 Cut But sll site she hadn't e Cn c n got an nn In- In 3 tei IT lie hadn't f. f 1 i for her loud good looks one little hit bit i it Perhaps a Miss ri Lai Larson so mills li right rihl lIt good goOt looks loois were wele J her line Without theme sl she shei e could not succeed suc celI v Terry Jerry went vent to bed hied that lint night with witha a fixed determination to to show tin the world In In general Cn and amI Terry Miss Terry in particular lar that s chic he hc lard had mote more mo e than one sti string t to liar her line Two 1 days day's later fater when Shien a n rather ler pale pall I I decidedly shabby and somewhat co cold n youns sill I 1 asked th the reception clerk whether I she chic lq might see sea AIr Mr Carr the clerk could have 1110 swore that she had never lic never seen tile the g girl ll before c I dont don't want to in sold send in my lay rams name said th Iy ly ti sh shy v one because he lie might aught send out hi hl lihi S secretary Cl lII and nd she would frighten fright flight b en me mc to death leath but maybe be I 1 could sit here heie and I l just wait uit So the reception clerk clell let time the girl wait She was as still looking 1001 cold and scared not to say actually hungry an hour tour later when Mr Il Carr came ot out t of his room and she stepped steppe timidly toward him The he reception clerk cierI was amazed when she saw Mr Carr Carl go gu back to his puce pOlee with the time sha shabby looking h young joung girl She would have ha been considerably con con- more surprised if ten minute minutes min min- ute utes later she had heard Mr h Carr Curl virtually giving his agreement to take takeout takeout takeout out a life insurance of an amazingly large figure Ill take talie this of course said Mr Ir Can Carr Canto to the Ilse g girl lI but t there lere is no particular particular par par- reason wh why I should You sel see j I I all Kindred I IlI my 1113 are aIe amply provided pro for 01 and and lm Im I'm not married I You Tou lIIa play may be some day said the the lim timid little life insurance agent r After con considerable le maneuvering Terry Terry Terry Ter Ter- ry contrived to lo meet Mr II C Carr ra at fit n a house party a month later it was I T Ten erry l y on a holiday Terry crey who had hail for rOl the time being fOl forgotten otten all about insurance but hut a n aery very ery pretty ane and well well- ih lIc etl Terry ellY nevertheless It had hail taken considerable Ingenuity to find finda a friend liend who also knew Bertram Beltram Carr Curl who wis is ill 11 u a n mood mood- to to give ghe a n house lIous l' l pity t f. f m I-m luira I knew new that hat ho he lied had seen seen her tier re but hut he Ilc could fakir her jor t r W win with lII tI the c insistent hui wo-nn wo who ho haul had ii UIl hal t. t u. u sec him s so o Fur the timid gi eli lm I who md t SolI I him liI life lio urance inE a n liuio J cil when he he asked terry crl to hini hi trill and she had hud accepted she had ai to fo ioU ioU- t tell Il him the story stor pt of h Her campaign H illat hall ha aroused d first filSt IS lH pity u il s love I 4 C 2 V y yI t JJ h nj r if |