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Show IZOE BECKLEY'S INTERESTING STORY Her Side and His Bead Bags Becoming Very Popular Attractive At-tractive New Bag of Roman Striped Ribbon Recipe for Chili Sauce. I FREE LANCE, OR HIRELING? Day after day David sat in his little olficc without a client appearing. Dally ho shut his desk and came home to report to Oora, In answer to her bright Rnillo of inquiry, "No, Chick, no one's t-howod up yoL" Daily his courage wnncd, his impatience waxed. Dally hifl passion for . Independent JdJoaw5r UG froo lance succumber to tfie louging for tho surcnesa and comfort com-fort of tho hireling. Then, one morning, morn-ing, In tho same mall with tho bill for tao nc.xt month's office rent camo an offer from tho Workmen's Co-oponitlvo Homos Company to work for them at a salary. For Lours he looked from the letter let-ter to the rent bill, from tho rent bill In the lottcr. The letter stated the Workman's Co-operative Company, which was developing a working-mcn's working-mcn's suburb near New York wanted Dave to be one of tholr staff of architects archi-tects and offered a fair but modest salary. The rent bill merely requested re-quested that Mr. Temple send his check beforo the 20th if he wished to keep his office another month. After five hours of arguing to himself him-self In a circle in favor of and against either proposition David got' up, heavy hearted and baffled. He had been unable to force himself to a decision. de-cision. Thon he became aware of a change in him which his marriage had made. He had become dependent on Cora's counsel and courage in the crises that affected both of them. He did not know whether that was growth or deterioration. But he did not stop to think the matter out, preferring to accept the fact and profit by it if he could. He laid tho two communications beforo be-foro Cora that evening without a word. She road them with intense Interest and looked eagerly for his decision. "Those are about all the exhibits in the case of Free Lance vs. Hireling," ho said. "Thero is only one other a few thousand dollars saved for, what? For a rainy day, for the day when there should be a lviddlo with us; or shall we put the money up on a gam-blo gam-blo that I will win out as a free lance? Which?" he asked despondently. Cora's eyes shons "Thank heaven we have the power of choosing!" she cried. In spite of himself David laughed out. "You are certainly teaching me the difficult art of seeing the doughnut part of tho doughnut instead of tho hole only," he said. "Now show me the case for free lancing, honey. I'm going to argue for the hireling side." (irnl, a i it i 11.. tir-i i cperatlve is no dazzling prospect as the Colony Park proposition" was," he continued. "But it is sure. It means money. A modest sura, it Is true, but money coming in instead of only go:J Ing out as It has been since I've jumped back Into working for myself. It. means I've got to cut down on my dreams for the future. But it also gives more body and reality to the present. It is a queer line of argument argu-ment for me, remembering how impatient im-patient for 'the big chance' I was formerly. A hard knock on the head is a good teacher. And yet, dear, I wish you victory In your argument against my case for the hireling. 1 don't want to win IL" "You'll lose your case and win your fight, dear," Cora cried gaily. "An analogy may not be good evidence in a law court, but it's going to hold good here. David, you're a prefectly good note, dated ahead indeterminately, liable to fall due any day, and the indorsees in-dorsees of your allrightness are Messrs. Youth, Ability, Character, Industry In-dustry & Co. the most reliable backers back-ers in the world! No one who knows the indorsers would sell out such a note at even a cent of discount and I know them. Davey, you're going to write the Workmen's Co-operative Company a sweet little note declining the offer. And with the same mail you'll write for a year's lease on vour office." Which was what David had been longing to hear. oo |
