Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 35

. 15 a real recommendation.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1928. e et THE EVEN On the Road. D BOUNDED up the station steps three at a time, with the sample cass held straight behind to avoid delaying collisions. The train was gaining mo- | mentum. A quick diagonal sourt and fiving leap carried one foot to the lower | &tep and a hand to the rail. He went through two cars, to the| door of : third, when something he | saw inside made him duck suddenly | and slip back toward the middle of the | second. There he dropped into the va- | cant half of a seat, still brralhlng| heavily from his sprint | A minute or so, and he looked to-| ward the window—end into the amused | eyes of his seatmate. | “Blanche!” 3 5 Ay | “That's right—Billy pe” to | use that nickname. Blanche would be #i right for woman's annarel nerfum- ery and the like. ¢ Teaming and hartwars—neh would kill any such orders. while ‘Billy “Ever capture any of the Pine River ‘plum?” Billy shook her head, though her eyes were sparkling. “Not vet,” she admitted, “though I've tried ha-d. That's why I -l so good 1>day. But 't’s tou~h luck for vou Ed. working so for a sure thing and thon finding arself at the tailend «f three.” “Don’t quite catch on.” “I saw you duck at th2 next car door and dodge back. You didn't want Jim | Briggs to know you're on ths same train.” | “Um!"” his face clearing a little. “Jim Briggs, with a line of accessorics and hardware, You ditto, Me like Um | Does Jim know you arz cn th2 train?” | “No, I saw him through the window. | He didn't com> into this car. But| vou've heard that Jim boasts no com- | petitor ever beat him yet, and I don’t suppose they have. So it will be quite | a surprise for him to find me at Hill & Co’s, just closing my book with | their order inside.” | Ed’s face grew serious. “Couldn't do ‘ 4t, Billy, not with Jim,” he regretted. | “I've been after his scalp for years and enly got a few stray hairs now and then. I'm sorry.” “You needn’t be,” she laughed, “for | I'm going to be in it this time. You | remember when- st “We made the trip together,” he broke in eagerly, “and—" “I didn’'t mean that trip.” a sudden color rising to her face. “I mean an average trip—and—" “That trip together,” firmly. “It was your first one there, and you knew nothing about the road. Not finding any convevance you started on foot, like the plucky girl you are. I overtook you | NG STORY shot out rapidly. “Give that to DuBary. It's a big card I've been holding up my sleeve. Didn’t dare to whisper it out loud for fear Briggs would hear, even if he were 10 miles away. DuBary's 2 man I used to sell goods to 'as a man- ager, and now he’s a partner in starting a biz supply store at Pork River. Got buildings+all ready, and telegraphed me to come and get order to fill him up before other salesmen got round. That note turns it over to you. He'll let you have it all right. Off you go now and do your best.” *“Just 2 moment. Ed,” raising her face toward him regardless of the grinning driver, ani with her eyes shining, “you may give me a kiss for—for com- mercial courtesy, amd—and evervthing that was said and promised in the swamp is true.” As_their lips touched, the driver smacked his own in sympathy. Then Ed was alone, with Billy sprint- ing away. It was nearly three weeks later when Ed fimished his trip and entered Duluth to report at headquarters. As he left the street car he noticed a girl in front of a window that displayed kitchen || furnisht: Something about the fiz- ure made him pause irrosolutely. It (| reminded him of—and Billy was some- {| where cown in Crow Wing County, h. understcod. forward. the office entrance. the hall he caught up with her. e’ “Is this your headquarters, too, Billy?" he asked curiously, placing himself be- tween her and the office door. “Why, yes—didn't you know?” inno- cently, but with dancing eyes. ‘“Maybe it didn't come up in our talk, though. The hous~ has been very nice to m 1 wonder,” musingly, “if it could be that || 1 wanted to beat you at your own game in your own house. Once upon a time 1 heard you make a dispareging remark about a girl being in bu Ed threw up quick han all back,” he apoligized, and then some. But that isn't what I wanted to talk about. My salary and the extra percentage allowed figures up to $1,300 and some cents. You re- member our talk?” Billy nodded and smiled. “I don't have any salary at all, Ed, you know.” she said, “so my percentage is larger. Lucky, too, in this case. I got a tre- mendcus order, and my commission amounts to,” in not altogether mock awe. “Over—two—thousand—dollars. Enough to—" she stopped short, flushing. “Buy some of the things you were looking at in the window?" finished Ed boldly. “And—er, say Billy, I stopped at the new apartment house and priced | suites—one With five rooms -and tiled Then the girl turned s |/ that he saw her face and he rushed || But before reaching therc. | | Billy had moved along and passed into || He followed. Tn || bath, overlooking the park, and—" i s e Ea"ou saw | AID IN STABILIZING that advertisement in the morning ,pazm as I did. I stopped there, too, and—" “Engaged it?" eagerly. She nodded. THE END. (Copyright, 1028.) SEEKS EUROPEAN MARKET ATLANTA, Ga., November 22 (#).— Wells A. Sherman, head of the Federal | Bureau of Agricultural Economics, ap- pearing before the Southeastern Trade Conference, outlined means of develop- ing markets in Europe, particularly in England, for Southern fruits and vege- tables. Grapefruit has become popular in England, especially on the luxury ma- ket, the speaker said, but urged that Southern producers attempt to com- pete with other flelds on the general market. Grapefruit, Florida ovanges and Georgia peaches, he said, should find a ready market abroad, provided producers can deliver their products in time to compete with Spain, Jaffa and other fields. PRICES 1S PROMISED Midwest Farmers Ready to Help Hoover, Illinois Association Official Says. | By the Associated Press. ROCK ISLAND, Ill, November 22— E. G. 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