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3 I HI mm .3 ? I If ..1? SERIAL STORY LUCKY BY GLORIA KAYE A TRIP TO KANSAS ' CHAPTER XII V 'THE campaign tor an honest city ! government was a triumph l! for the Courier, Never had there i been uch interest in an election. Jim worked endlessly, tirelessly. Absorbed in the campaign, Jim t. found little time to check activi r tics on the plateau above Kirk 4. town. Steam shovels were busy f now, digging foundations, clearing . the land for the ambitious project Charlie Jones had undertaken for v Penny. t "Why don't you take a little vacation?" Penny suggested. 'You certainly have valued one. KuW : that the election rush is over, I can handle the paper. You really r ahould take it easy for your own good." "I wish I could get back to Kan sas," Jim chuckled. "Mom would fill me so full of com I'd cluck like a chicken. And speaking of chicken. Penny, you should taste the ones she fries. Nothing like It in the world." , . "Go ahead, Jim," she urged. "Visit your folks. Forget the pa per. You'll be better for It when you come back. "Penny," Jim said, "I will go backl I want to tell the folks about you. This time I'll go alone. Next time, you're coming with - me." He babbled happily, ex citedly, about his folks and the scenes of his childhood. Once he had made up his mind, he couldn't bear the delay of packing and waiting for a train. At the station he poured !ast minute instructions to Penny. "I'll miss you, Penny," Jim , whispered. "A month is a long time to be away from you." Yes a month was a long time, she reflected, as she waved goodby to the fast-receding train. TN the busy weeks that followed, she found time to visit the Kirk offices once more. "Mr. Stim son," Penny .told the executive, "I've come to ask you to accom pany me on a trip through the mills. I want to meet all the men. J want a speaker's platform, and a microphone. I have something to say to them. Can you have everything ready tomorrow?" Stammering, the surprised Stim son agreed to make the prepara tions she demanded. Daily, Penny drove to the - plateau where construction of New .- Kirktown was progressing with t . amazing speed. "There's one building that must be finished within a month," sne ' told Charlie Jones. "That's the Courier building." "Well have it done," the archl ' itect assured her, "well ahead ot Schedule." Penny arrived at the mills to ' tflnd the steel workers gathered curiously about the flag-draped platform erected for her. "Fellows," Penny said, "I have !a confession to make. I'm not v , JPepny Kellogg. I'm Penelope Kirk. 'I came into tthe mills the way I 'did to find out for myself what ' lyou're like and to learn what we - lean do- to work together so that everyone will profit and everyone iwill be happy." Silence filled the room. "I know some of your griev ances," she continued. "They're . going to be corrected. I'm going to 1 liave an office right here in the milL I want you to come in and see me any time you have any ., thing on your mind. We're goinf to work together to make this thi - swellest steel outfit in the country What do you say?" ; They said it, lustily and loudly Penny was happy now, happiei than ever before in her life. Thre weeks had passed since Jim left 'In another week Jim would returr ,to share with her the pleasures ishe had planned so carefully. She parked her car in front oi ithe Courier office, late in the afternoon. She was surprised to find the front door open. She walked in. There stood Jim. The lo-c In his eyes hurt her worse than physical pain. "Jim," was all that Penny could say, "Jim." She had never seen him like this. Tired. . Bitter. His eyes harsh. pHDR an endless moment he said nothing. He merely stood there, Buem, ominous, tense. "Take a good look. Jim Vickers, sucker. That's me. Look at me and laugh. You've had a good time, haven't you?" His words burned. "But, Jim," she protested. "You wrote to me every day. You promised to write me about everything that happened in town. What changed y.-iur mind?" He didn't wait for an answer. "I know. It would be fun to surprise me. When I came back I'd find Penelope Kirk's name in the mast head instead of Penny Kellogg's, and a new building for the Courier instead of my dumpy basement. "You neglected one thing. You forgot that my folks are on the mailing list. I saw the last issue of the Courier in spite of your failure to send one to me. I saw the architects' drawings of New Kirktown." He laughed bitterly. "You certainly go a long way to carry out a joke. What fun it will be to tell your friends about the poor sap who wanted a new town and came back from his vacation and there it was. Like a kid getting a present from Santa Claus. "Tell them what a fool I was. I thought you were poor and friendless and wanted love. Tell them I actually made love to you. Tell them the poor sap actually thought you loved him. Good joke, Isn't It?" He turned on his heel and walked out. Wearily, Penny closed the office idoor. She slid into her roadster and drove slowly to the apartment ishe still shared with Midge. She ipocked her clothes and a few little 'trinkets. Her luggage she placed (fn the trunk of her car. To Mirign che wrote a brief, friendly fare- 1 PENNY COPYItlaHT. 1 OA. NBA SERVICE. INC. well note, When she reached the Courier office the sun had already de scended. She groped for a light switch, and the bright glare mo mentarily blinded her. As her vision cleared, she stared in as tonishment. Grotesquely uncomfortable, Jim was slumped in the swivel chair he had rescued from the ruins of the old office. His head rolled crazily along the back edge of the chair. On the table in front of him stood an empty whisky bottle. Shocked, Penny stood still, de bating what to do next She re membered his steadfast resolution to refrain from 'drfnWjnj One before, drink had ruined his ca reer. Suddenly the answer she sought dawned on her. "Don't you see?" she asked her self. "He needs you! He can't get along without you! You've won him! He's yours!" Jim had thrown his ancient va lise in a corner. She carried it out to his dusty car, placing the heavy grip tenderly on the back seat. She removed her own lug gage from the roadster and placed it beside his. She had some diffi culty in rousing him sufficiently so that he could walk with her, unsteadily, to the decrepit vehicle he loved so well. "Jim needs me," she repeated over and over again. "He needs me. He needs me." Now there was music in Penny's heart Never had the night seemed so glorious. Never had a trip seemed so pleasant. Jim's car creaked and groaned protestingly, but Ene wouldn't wsnt it other wise. "Okay, Jim," she said softly. "Just take it easy. 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