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Show oooooooooooooooooooooooooo s Two Important x Questions 6 X By LEET STONE S oooooooooooooooooooooooooo ((.oM-rltlit.) YOUNG Mr. (.'live Williams, prominent promi-nent legal lliiht, hat with his eighty-dollar coat uleeve re.stlng on his three hundred-dollar mahogany desk, and iinathomatl.ed the extravagance extrav-agance of women. He had no wife; but lie had a very modern mother and two very modern sisters. The problem of how to stretch thirty-five thousand dollars a year so It would encompass their domestic do-mestic budget was agitating. Ills mother and the girls must have between them twenty or thirty gowns n year from Paris, a touring car and a town car, to say nothing of periodical periodi-cal reinforcements against boredom such ns extended jaunts to the Riviera, Ri-viera, I'ulin Reach, Bar Harbor and I.ukewood. No wonder Cllve Williams pondered, with his fourteen-dollar shoes tightly pressing the foiir-hundred-dollur Turkish Turk-ish rug In front of his desk. A neat blonde head apiK-ared at the softly opened door. "Hello, Miss Fane! Want to see me?" "There's a man from the gnrf.ge to see you, Mr. Williams," said the attractive at-tractive secretary. How bright and comfortable, how cheery she looked, thought Williams, us he bid her send the man In. So neatly and tastefully dressed. How In the world could his secreiury appear ap-pear so charming anil desirable, and above all so serene, on thirty-five dollars dol-lars a week when be could not even approach equanimity on thirty-five thousand a year? The garage man had a refreshing bit of news. Williams' chauffeur "had been pinched for slicing a pie truck." and "If you don't mind running up to the police station and giving a hundred hun-dred dollars security you can get him out tonight. They won't take a check, you know." "All light, Stevens, Til go right up Thank you I" Williams pressed a buzzer for tbe oflice buy. "Tell Mr. Jones to come In," he or dered. "Cashier's gone, sir. It's quarter pnt five." "Then the safe's locked, I suppose?' "Ves, sir. Mr. Jones always locks It before he loa-ves." "Well, somebody must open thP safe I noei' a hundred dollars at once." "Sorry, sir; hut nobody can oper. It but Mr. Jones and th managing clerk." Disniisc-Ii'B the boy. Wltdnms due In bis po.'kets distractedly. Thy yielded thirty dollars and three nick e!s. The b;.nks were closed. No one In tbe oiTice force who would noi faint at being asked for a hundred dollars. Fie telephoned some acquaintances ac-quaintances In nearby offices. All had left for fhe day. Cllve Williams whistled softly and racked his brain. He couldn't let Johnson, the chauffeur, remain in jail overnight Some witty reporter would get hold of It and make a silly storv whi h would let him in for no end oi chaffing at his clubs. "The boss Is In a fine stew," an nounced Henry, the office boy, to Mis-Fane, Mis-Fane, the serene secretary, with ju veuile glee. "He can't get in the safe and he's gotta have a bunch of Jack-In Jack-In half an hour. I ain't got more'n a hundred In me clothes or I'd oblig, him what? How much does he need'. Aw, what's the use of tellin' you' Had your envelope padded this week'-It's week'-It's a hundred he wants, if you mus' know." Miss Fane hurried toward her em plover's private office and met him rushing out with hat, stick and gloves his face a study In vexation. "Just one moment, Mr. Williams It it's about the money. I've jusi heard you need some for somethin.2 important. If you don't mind I'd br glad to let you have a huudred dol lars." Cllve Williams could not help It. ne laughed in sheer appreciation of the situation. Miss Fane smiled Here he had been digging in pockets and desk drawers for a stray, forgot ten century note, nnd now came his enchanting secretary offering it on the spot. "I just happened to have it with me today." Miss Fane still smiled, "because "be-cause I've been saving a long time for a player piano, and I was going to pay this amount down this evening." eve-ning." Somehow, Williams did not realize that he should be expressing appreciation appreci-ation Instead of standing in front ol this girl, silently admiring her. and wondering over all manner of amazing amaz-ing economic puzzles. Thirty-five dol lars a week nnd able to have lovely clothes nnd buy pianos! Thirty-five thousand a year aud never out of debt ! What he realized most emphatically, emphatical-ly, however, was that he, dive Wil liams, needed education and a change of viewpoint : also, that standing he fore him holding out a crisp note was the most perfect teacher that he had ever sen. Fearing to give immediate vent to his emotion. Williams took the money and thanked the donor. "Tomorrow. Miss Kane, when I re turn this. I have au important question ques-tion to ask you. It deals wilK high finance. And tomorrow evening while you're motoring with me in tho park I have another, much more hnpor taut question to propound. MeamiiU' don't forget me 1" |