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Show Her Daughter and His Son A Great Married Life Story by M 1 IDAH McGLONE GIBSON i rPU-:.s T ADVENTURE " I have no friends here. I .-m alone In the City," 1 said In 4 'remldlnp voice as the man said I COUld telegraph tele-graph to my friends. The man looked me over again, ap-1'ialslnply. ap-1'ialslnply. I will lake you to .the manager, he said. 1 noticed that as w walked through ihe dining room lo the office we attracted at-tracted iiuicli attention, hut It was not until I faced the manager and rc-. rc-. kr alized that I had been following a de- '"'JSS Active attached to the restaurant, that lHi:HfBB ' understood wh everyon- turned to NLLV look at mo. SauSBLH Clement Johnson, as I leJirnrd his r3H nam later. wa the type of man horn aVJB2 l huvc met many times since In my! tjQHv busfoesa life Hf thought thai a young fFl gl unprotected woman wii a Icgltimati ohjer.t nf his at t.-niions. I wa.-n'r ;is B3k "Ufc, Capable of taking care of myself then,, JBBi """' however, us 1 am now, and I trembredl EStm :,n' '"rn alternately white and red, fDkSt before tils narrowed eyes. LH "So you've been trying to boat the NDM restaurant " were his first words. BVHnHSj "f bejr yoill pardon." Pr jF-Jj "Weill you came In hero andordt-red . jyga an expensive dinner which they tellj mbS m, -v11 cannt pay lor." QeMH!! "No sir. I cannot," I answered, "biltj lSOw! ' thought I had R thousand dollars in BnUtjftBHu I l I Is when I came in and only dlscov-j HClnWMsl ered its loss a moment ago. h i re did j ha i It " LWf "i stocking." "How did it gel out? It'a a likely M stiii', that a young woman of your Ctiftj appearance would be cjiriyln;; ihous- C-JM and dollars in her stocking. Where hH Old gel ii " &LSH "Vou Have nu right to ask me how! jJaflLB 1 (rot It. I answered spiritedly, but nHK I lost it through a rip in my stocking KjfljjlJ I added with a blush HQH see the hole." QH "I showed It to the maid in the re- BLLK thin? room. You can take her word H for LLLfl "You say you have no friends ;the city. Where were you going to-' to-' night ?" "I am at the Rex Antler's hotel Why didn't ou dine there"' "Because it seemed too expensive." "What! With n thousand doilais in your stocking?'' I ' Liu i I had come here to hunt for (work end did not know how expensive ihr- hotel was until after 1 got there " Oh, so that's H Vou want work "" Again he looked me oer in a wny , that brought the color to my face, i hat sort of work are ou looking for?" I u.s polng to take a stenoRraphle touisc and meantime find temporary employment, if possible " I was getting more and more nervous ner-vous and It seemed If he asked me another an-other question l should acream. Will you let me go now? I shall J try' to gel work In the morning and promise you I shall pay you. I had no thought of Stealing from anyone." i started for the door My dnly de- was to Z( t away frAm those boldly- prying eyes - "Mere, hero, young lady, not so fust, said the detective grasped j army so roughly that it hurt and I gave an Involuntary little scream "Don't do that, Sellers." said the manager . Then y ou don't want to hold the dame"' asked the defective In surprise! NCI against her will," he said more; samely than he had before spoken, and gave lUO a smile that mad-- ft)' I flesh (jeep. Yotnlg woman, your qtorv does not set-in plausible, to me, but I'm going ! to give yqti a chance. You tell me yOu have no training in business, but' you look to tnc like a gitl who has j plenty of nerve and pep Besides yoi! must know that y ou r- easy to look at. I You're in luck we need a check girl! rjghi now You can slay here and check for y our dinner tonight and if 'on suit, you're on." romorrofl iin Lands a Joh. (Copyright National Newspaper fc-'er-' vice. |