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PAGE SIX jrRPFORD MATL TRIBTJTsTE, irEDFORP. OREGON. ' MONDAY, MAT 2, 1932. KITTY FREW by JANE ABBOTT. HYNOPBIB: tjni . tfl U'Mtfl to her, Kitty Frew thlnkt, although the lelt him after a quarrel that uptet their brief married life. She ie determined that he support her. He wants to live on hit mother't money. Kitty it workinti In Ktrat. ton't ttort while Oar helve ilaroe Crotby ttaoe amateur thealrlcalt. Chapter 20 SECURITY TUMBLES JOSIB noticed hor radiance. "You look as It something nice bad happened to you. Miss Brandon. Did you have a date with your boy friend last night?" Kitty shook her head. But she lauxhed. "Something nice has bap-pened." Josle was In high spirits herself. "Look at these, Miss Brandon. Aren't they a bargain for tbe money?" And when Kitty camo closer: "Something nice happened to ma last night, I met the swellest man. Gee. I guess It was lore at first sight." Josle's confidences Interested Kitty. Josle did not care that Kitty gave no confidences In return. Prob ably Josle considered she had none to give. Her friendliness had given Kitty mora confidence In her work. Quite consciously she had copied Josle's competent sales manner. wanted to most or mem don't do that. Why you want to, of course, Is your business but It's mine to know that you are In earnest, not just taking a try at It." Her tone was questioning and Kitty answered: . "I am In earnest, truly. "Good. I'll tell you what's on my mind but don't say anything about It In the department. They've prom ised me an assistant the promise. Is so old that It has moss on It, but they've got to make good this spring because the department's grown. Can't you see that It's grown even since you've beon there, Miss Brandon? Well, if they want to keep me they've got to make good. And they'll listen to any recom mendatlons I make. There's ycur chance. I'm not saying anything definite, understand; it's up to you." The waiter bad brought their oysters. Miss Lee pounced on them, giving her whole attention to them. Kitty's face had flushed. She ought to tell Miss Lee, now, that she was married, that, any day Assist ant buyer, perhaps some day take Miss Lee's place. To work with Gar to keep their home. Many women did that one of the girls In the sportswear department was married. It was the kind of thing Dorcat would do. "ft was love at first light." But today she felt a zest that was not borrowed from Josle. It was a busy day. Blouses? She had pa tience tor tbe most exacting shop per. , ' A Jersey dress copied from an Im ported model was the Joke of the department, to everyone but Miss Lee, the buyer. It had hung In the ease since spring. "No, I don't want a suit I want a dress of Borne kind, something that's a little different," a customer told Kitty, this morning. And Kitty took the Jersey dross out of the case. "It's a Patou copy," she said, as she had said before, but there was a difference In her voice this morning and In the way she smiled over the garment as she held It out. "Don't you want to try It on?" And ten minutes later the dress went to the bundle counter, sold. A little later Miss Lee, approach ing Kitty In her brisk manner, com mended her for her sale. "What time do you go out tor lunch. Miss ' Brandon? Twelve? Change with one of the girls and come with me at one. I've an appointment at the Hoffman at two-thirty and we'll eat 1 there." At Btratton's Kitty knew Miss Lee as an efficient manager, with a brittle manner that made the girls In her department a little afraid of her. But as tbey sat down at a mall table In tbe Hoffman dining room she seemed to soften, grow younger, more animated, as If she threw oft a self she kept for busi ness Just as she slipped out of her mart coat and lot the waiter told It over the chair back. "Now, let's see" Miss Lee sug gested one thing and another. "You'll Ilk the Chef's salad. And oysters. Sweetbread patties that sounds good. Are there mushrooms with them, waiter? Mushrooms and the pumpkin pie." She put the card down, Immensely satisfied, and looked at Kitty. Her glance rosted on Kitty's face, speculatively. "Do. you llko your work?" "Oh, yes, now. I felt stupid at Brat." "Well, that's a good sign, that you're willing to admit you were stupid, l vo been watching you You'll got on. In fact I picked you out for good material the first day rou came. You worked as It you Aloud she only answered: "Thanks," In a low tone, a little breathlessly. Miss Lee finished 4iet oysters . before she said anything more. Then: "Remember about keeping your mouth shut and your oyes open. And study your cus tomers, they've as different tastes as they've shapes. Get to know the people who come In. It always makes a hit when you can, call some one by name. See that girl getting up from that table over there? That's the Frew girl, Dalton Frew's daughter" Kitty turned here eyes swiftly across the room, her face paling with shock. Carol bad Just risen from a table. She did not leave It at once. She stood there a moment, bent a little toward the man with whom she had been eating. Her face was angry, resentful. To what ever s ho was saying the man gave only a shrug of his shoulders, only halt rising from his chair. And al most at once Carol turned and left him, walking swiftly out of the room. Kitty saw her Hps working. "She's not much on style with all the nmney she has. But her mother Is. Now that's the point I was mak ingfor Instance It she should come in, If you'd say: "Good morning, Miss Frew, Can I help you?" she'd like It. That's Paul Somerset she's Just left He's an actor starred In Winter's Moon three years ago. I saw him In New York. He had soma mix up with the Equity. I heard he was here the Idyllers have taken him up. Of course you know what that Is a club of debutantes. Thoy're starting one of those little Theaters. Oh, I keep In touch with what's doing, that's part of my business. If Margery Crosby came In looking tor a sweater I'd expect you to show her only the best lot. She's the richest girl In Wlnton, you know." Kitty gripped the table to steady herself. The room was whirling about her; she dared not risk a wortll Foolishly she had thought Stratton's, like Kntchum Street, world safoly apart from Carol, Map gory Crosby, the Idyllers, and now that security was tumbling aboul hor. (Copyright, Jane Abbott) David, however, provides tempo. Mry refiiQi tomorrow when ho taHes Kitty on an adventure. VOICES DISGUST FOR LOST SALARY BERKELEY, Cl, May 9. () Tbe American course la a glided log, on one end of which alt a drowsy undergraduate and on the other end a "fairly well paid bore." Percy Marka, Yale English professor, aaid today In the University of California Alumni Monthly. Marks, author of the "Plaetlo Age," novel of college student lite, com plains that undergraduates are Dot student, professors are not teachers, and college bulldlnga are reallrntlona of dreams of administrators whose Interest has strayed from the stu dent. Elect Frank Per) coronet. TAILSPIN TOMMY Skeeter Wants To Settle The Score! By (1LHNN CHAFFIH 4 and HAL roUHUSX V TTqhmv ewTA me 70 rMSIAHAMJAH XPiAWm me MAT eUAfMCD TO M4V 7Hs 7err of me PAW1W OAifMO fvwr a a to to &y 7W otacxs turerAm) rue bcys nev bmkdco A Sr40 jrAVZS- sxsr KWaYS 7VY OA 7MT BtMT UKE Te 7J GAMUTS. SZ31 i a; w 1 1 1 1 1 1 i leaaaejaiajsaMJiJlljaiLlllls ' . 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