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I Information Office I Was as Posted By RUBY DOUGLAS fa d by lIy McClure Newspaper pcr Syndicate Syo 1 V NU Service C fj J TOY OY or PIERCE E c sat on the file arm of ot uJ 0 big stuffed chair In which her moth er was darning the 1 11 family stockings I III Its l s like this Mummie falli falling n s irk In I h 1 to the old name she was as wont to us usE when she had hind something confidential 1 U to I Impart to her parent parent I I am goIn Cl to take talie charge of the information or of flee fice of or a real estate concern f tier Her mother gasped Jr j My ly office is In the cutest little trio tricK Ji dof of ot a house fb 1 you rou ever er beheld It is no n bigger than a minute and has wind window chic 11 boxes full of or flowers a flagstone path 0 and miniature garden arcen casements wit roses clambering about about oh oh YOUth yo couldn't want n a sweeter place in J to Lo work And all nil I 1 have hn to do Is to b be 1 there at that flint darling desk and look pretty and answer all the questions question L t for all nil the folks who drive drle up to as l about High Farms property Ie But nut that's just It what It-what what do doO yo O yon know about It 1 interrupted b mother tr trI I 1 can learn They tell me I 1 loo tl the part and am quick and intelligent and have ha personality So So-I So I got thE Job 1 I 1 start stait on Saturday and I 1 fee sure that dint I shall fill the bill Isn't i grand Mummie And me Just out O L F school and wanting to earn enough t 1 II I start sturt to college in the fall Its It's Pro Prop I I call it V I The days until Saturday passed sots so quickly for Joy that she soon found foun founds i herself putting on her freshest frock after an unusually careful toile on the fateful morning of her first st step into the tile business world it Mr Ir Carstairs senior member of th tb at development firm that had employee ct I her was waiting outside the little o 0 oIce off a aI I I Ice flee when she arrived He Be gre greeted ted h ha he hein In a businesslike manner but Wit 1 friendliness and apparent approval 9 or j her charming appearance He De too took her Inside Instructed her as to I of lots laid out on the ma l n roads and nd other details that sh sli shI I might find useful when anyone call S Sto to make different inquiries abou property J After he be had gone Joy busied her hem J self pulling off the dead blossoms froMa the flowers about the diminutive cot cots tage age In a few moments she felt a ahome at home and was sure that she was I hi I perfect harmony the ment mente fl C High Farms development was an ate at settlement and had been we welL weIL i advertised Therefore Joy did no n noi I 0 wait very long before she found her he self busy directing interested pers persons ns to this part or that of the section 10 I r rOne One morning an energetic little little gray and gray blue blue roadster driven by a aj hatless young joung man drew up with a l dash before the information office offiC office With an alert movement nt of an athletic t youth the driver ran up the turf steps to the doorway where he stood look looking w In ing at Joy I Could you OU g give ge e some information about this land he asked J Why IPhy yes es Come in In said Joy Are flAre there any restrictions th that restrictions that t te Isz must must one build Immediately upon tany gany t g any property one might buy he lie b ban be beNt gun an a trifle awkwardly as if If perhaps i 1 he had not quite formulated what heat hall wanted to sa say 11 I t There are restrictions but If It you you buy In good faith you need not build Immediately But you But you may not sell sell i tl 1 Oh Oh no no no hastened the answer t from the visitors visitor's lips that I 1 that is Ile might want a small lot back there the woodsey part of the development but well but well I could not build for for for-ad for for-a. a couple of years rears I That would be all nil right Im I'm sure IE 1 l wn T MI ML Ill Ill-a a nin mo tn to not n man L 1 n vuu v to go with you jou ou to see some lots s asked Joy Oh no No indeed Haven't you Son youa Sona a a map I could look at Joy went with him to the side wall where the big map of ot the property t hung They searched the unsold sections see sec and finally the young joung man aed I a ed that a n little corner plot with a aj a strip of ot white birch trees along the thi the j side was exactly what he wanted you ou like e to see It asked d b Joy amazed t I No not No not now he assured her it I And then lien he did an astonishing thing He fie gave gae Joy his card and wrote a check to pay a deposit on the lot tot until the proper papers could be be Issued Joy was quite overcome and when he had gone she stood alternately alternate alternate- ly 13 looking down Cedar Swamp road hIm and studying his name on OD th the card a dU dUshe she held In due time the lot was vas properly 1 Iii sold to Robert Hobert M. M Sefton and all nil papers pa- pa pate pati tipers ti te pers executed to his entire I tion It seemed that he had two more moro years In law school and th then well then b well no noone noone noone one seemed to know what he Intended to do at nt the end of ot that time I Little by little during that wonderful wonder wonder- ful summer and later Inter while away at college Joy began to learn IcarD of the In- In of the first person she nac had hadI ever eer transacted business with He badI bad had I I several occasions as ns b he be seen her on had passed the cottage and had decided decided the girl that thai fate fute had ed that she W was S chosen for him Therefore he had for forthe forthe it bought a lot lot made inane definite plans the future and determined to carry fo and un un- patience theta them out nut employing But nut But Bob Joy was vas saying to him hail had t after they more than two years met are are you yun sure I am nm the girl I Ask the Information office onice in your Il neu rt J Joy oy h he said It knows knoW'S even eveD R Ris as is 1 I do m C |