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"I suppose you know it was just fifty years ago today that you started to work for You've been a good my father? man, Guy," said Farrell "You're honest, you're reliable." He smiled. "But let's save all that for tonight. We've planned a little celebration for you at the Jefferson Hotel. A fellow like you deserves a pat on the back." "Yes, sir," Guy went back to his He desk, but he couldn't work. couldn't focus on figures and sums. He thought of Farrell's praise and he thought of the lead dime, and he squirmed. He wasn't honest. And he wasn't reliable, for even in so minor a matter as a counterfeit dime he had failed himself. He had sold a record of honesty for a dime a lead one. How t:ould he go to the banquet tonight and listen to all those nice things people always said at banquets, when down in his heart he knew just how mean and petty he had been that morning? He couldn't. He had to get that (ldime back. Mere restitution handing over another dime, a good one, to the Bedford Lunch, whee he passed it off wpuldn't be enough. He had to get that coin back to keep it out of circulation so it couldn't go on cheating people for the rest of Guy's life. So he hurried from the office at quitting time and went directly to Bedford's Lunch. There was a chance that the dime hadn't been passed on. If Bedford would only show him the contents of the partition in the cash register, Guy could pick it out. But the night cashier was in no mood to listen to Guy's halting attempts to explain. "I got no time to monkey with dimes now, mister," he said irritably. "If you got a squawk with Bedford, see him in the morning." Tomorrow would be too late, of course. Baxter was due at the banquet tonight, in just an hour or two. The lead dime stood squarely in his way. He couldn't go. He started for the drugstore at the corner. He'd have to call Mr. Farrell and make some excuse. There was no use trying to explain, because Mr. Farrell would only lauuh and tell Guy not to be silly. But it wasn't silly. All this because he had pocketed his change yesterday without first s studying it. ". . . he asked 0r change for a quarter so he cou'xj make a phone call," the high school kid whispered to the soda fountain girl. "Remember that lead dime Bedford showed us this afternoon? Bedford gave it to me and I've been savin' it up at the cash register jUn waitin' for the right guy. I'm &k' to try to pass It off on that old sklent over there. Watch me epoil his day." Pop Do you know where bad little boys go if they stay away from Sunday School? Son Yes. Fishing or swimming! Retort Courteous Hubby I just thought of a good hs joke. mid-mornin- g, matter-of-factl- Oh, Wifey get your mind off yourself. Our Drama Club Jane I've got a speaking part in the next show. Have you? Jean No, the new coach said I was too beautiful for words. NEVTR y. 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