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Newspaper Page Texti lf J f A SERIAL STORY LUCKY PENNY BY GLORIA KAYE COPYBIOHT. !. NRA tlRVICE. INC. TUB STonVt Taa war kaa ' vrorkrd a raaasa fa laatop Kirk, vrrallar, potlra' a4 1Q. aa aaa nrd war-lora Knnif aad Teloraad 1a taa famtlr . aatate at Klrktavra. la mill . ten-n inker Bar vrandfa1kr bnllt hla fortune. An aha Basra B( kn manorial aadltortam ha aaaafaed hr krr ajraJidfntkrr ako oraraaara a an ataklae; ajaaaraalna rantarka akoat krr ' family and karsalf. Ska raroa;. ' alcea ka aa-aakar aa Jim Vlrk- ara, a former Parla aavraaaaa.r- '.. PENNT LANDS A JOB CHAPTER II JENNY sang "good morning" to a bright and cloudless day. From her window she could see white plumes of smoke floating lailly up from the valley-hugging mills. -. . She had realized last night that Kirk town would be no paradise, bhe had known that a community nestled so close to the smoke ot the steel mills and the soot of the railroad yards must absorb some blackness. .' " But Penny was not prepared for the nightmare of ramshackle, broken-down buildings that made up Kirktown. They looked for all the world as though they were held together with clotheslines and built on foundations ot toothpicks. ' The river was not a stream at all, but a rusty, smelly, steaming sewer. It cut the town in half. Oh cse side tha Kirk mills rose In black majesty. They were huge, powerful, impressive . . . and dirty. ' Central avenue lined the other ide, its dirty-faced buildings fronting the river. Two foot bridges crossed street and river, providing access to .the fenced-in mills.- To the right, as far as her eye could see, stretched buildings and furnaces and railroad yards the Kirk industrial empire. To her left, devoid of all attractiveness, lay tlie shattered, bruised, smoky residences and commercial struc tures that marked the remnants of her dream of Kirktown.- Though the day had Just begun, Penny was already tired. She parked her car wearily, stifling another urge to leave Kirktown behind her forever. Surely some where in this broken-down hodge podge, of derelicts there must be some saving note of charm. In silent depression she walked down Central avenue. She had never seen so- poor a business street. Merchants showed no pride in their establishments.' Most of the : windows had no displays. ' . She wandered up one street and down. the other. .Only the avenue at the top of the hill, where the John Kirk Memorial Auditorium had been erected, defied the uni versal ugliness. ' . ' . . "'r Here, on a plateau overlooking itie teeming mills, a-few daring souls had built middle-class homes 'that-blossomed' like oases in the sooty, desert. , Here were Kirk town's .only .patches ..of . garden. " - " tlACK-on; Central avenue again . she paused to rest in front of i a . restaurant whose interior was trie' most' inviting she had seen .since starting her tour of the town. The girl behind the counter was neatly uniformed. - Steel workers, in-long-sleeved black, shirts de spite the heat of the dajv sat at the long counter. . ; ..Penny; realized she had been walking for hours.- . She was -thirsty.. She '.walked in and ;sat down. - The girl behind the coun ter smiled a cheerful greeting as she placed, a . glass , of .water in ' front of Penny. " . ' ' -"A -glass of -milk,' please, said Penny, . - i "Sure, honey," replied the wait ress. ."And . don't worry. YouU get the Job. .I'll, put in .a .word for ' you with the boss. Chin up, kid. . You're in.". . . Penny watched In startled won ' der .as the. "Girl Wanted"' sign was lifted out of the restaurant win dow.1 Then she looked at herself in the mirror. Her dress no longer wore the crisp look that had en deared it to her. It was wrinkled now. Her. face , showed , unmis takable signs ot the smudges she had accumulated during her long walk. This, Penny thought .as she studied The troubled, weary, ex pression on her face,, must be the way jobless girls look after a hard nay of fruitless searcn lor employment-- " ' Should she take the job? . Here, Penny realized, was a golden -opportunity to pierce be low the surface of Kirktown, to find out - for, herself what had caused such deterioration. She ad justed her hair and brushed a fleck of soot from her nose. She wanted to make a good impres sion -on "the boss." In a moment he bustled out of his kitchen, a rotund, excited lit tle man. , He appraised her swiftly, nodded, "All right," he said, "you start tomorrow." v So . Penny Kitk, who used to sleep until noon, started her first day's work at Pietro's Restaurant at 6 o'clock the next morning. "Good morning, honey,", her friend of yesterday greeted. "My name's Midge. Carter, .What's yours?" "Penny Kellogg," the heiress to the .Kirk millions responded, glancing swiftly at the row of breakfast ' foods on the back counter. "Thanks for the boost, Midge.? "Think nothing of it, kid. You didn't need any help. Old Pietro can spot a good waitress the min ute he sees one." Midge studied Penny's trim figure. "I'll bet you've- worked in a-lot better beanerles than Oils one," she com plimented. Penny wondered what Midge would say If she knew that her hands had never before lifted a dish. She wondered; too, what her friends would say . if they could "see her In. the whito-trlmmcd green uniform,, a triangular cap perched saucily on her sort curls. She smiled as she rauglil a glimpse of herself in the mirror. "Come on. Penny. There's work to be done," called Midge. "The next turn starts soon." a a A TURN, Penny learned, whs the shift worked by the men in the mill. From the restaurant window, she could see steel work ers crossing over the foot bridge on their way to work. Penny swung easily into the routine of the restaurant. From Midge she learned to take her work in the spirit of a lark, as though she were picnicking in stead of laboring. At the expense of a few nervous dishes, she soon learned to carry the amazing number of- things waitresses can manage with skillful hands and wrists. - Men sauntered into Pietro's in them were young. She liked their j cheery greetings and their natural courtesy toward her. Later on, storekeepers drifted in to discuss business conditions and the day's I headlines over their cups of coffee. When the noon rush had ended, Penny felt she had earned the rest and the luncheon Pietro offered. 1 From the kitchen came tantalizing odors and Pietro's excited voice. : "Sit down. Miss Penny," Pietro : said. "I have something special for you." He pushed through the swinging door, a steaming dish of spaghetti held aloft for Penny's inspection. . ! "You have to eat every bit of it," Pietro insisted. "I made the meat sauce especially for you." He hovered over the table, ar ranging the basket of white bread and the dish of cheese. "Eat. It's good for you." Pennv hadn't realized she was so hungry. She naan t oenevea anything could b so appetizing. Intent on her dinner, she didn't notice the newcomers who swag gered in. Had she been watching Midge, usually so friendly, she would have been surprised at the cold stare that wbs her only greet ing "or them. There were five men In the group. Definitely not steel work ers. Penny decided. They dldnt bother to remove spotless white felt hats as they seated themselves. They wore expensive silk sport shirts, vividly colored: trousers that were too carefully creased, shoes shlned to mirror perfection. Suspenders of tooled leather com pleted their garish splendor.' Midge took their "black coffee" orders In silence. She served them and walked to the other side of the counter, where she busied her self arranging napkins and filling sucnr bowls. 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