For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 105: what you’re looking at

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EN POR Ges attic ity tp ee in that corner?” 5 “Another Talk With ane | Denton. : - deceive me, or is that really a plumber that I see over She raised her voice so that every one heard her, and a clerk in the opposite corner made haste to answer her: “That’s what it is all right, Lou, a real, live plumber! | The Board of Health has come to its senses at last, and, thanks to that Government Inspector, we are going to > 99 have some ‘modern improvements. “T hope we'll have basins enough to go around,” brio another voice, “and perhaps there'll be an occasional _ glimpse of a really clean towel.” “Oh, you mustn’t expect too much,” Sbieweren! the fae . | plumber, laughing. “I only got orders to do a little put- tering. It’s justa bluff they are chucking; it won't cost them much if nothin’.’ “Which means that you can’t get rich all at once!” cried Miss Willis, grinning. “Well, I’m sorry you can’t squeeze a fairly good sum out of our nice, generous em- ployers.” Faith went back to her counter, feeling sad at heart. She was beginning to question the wisdom of her mercy, toward Miss Willis. “T don’t believe that anything would ever change her heart,” she whispered to herself, and then a great wave of shame swept over her as she felt that she had ques- _ tioned the power of the Almighty. She stepped behind the counter just in time to see Miss Fairbanks changing the prices on a lot of special ribbons, but before she could ask any questions Miss Jones came _ ; UP to her. ‘“There’s a milliner in this block who is selling those same ribbons for fifty cents a yard,” she said, course, Denton, Day & Co. are not going to stand that; they are going to undercut her in everything until they break up her business. You see, if we sell them for thirty-_ nine cents, she'll have to come down, which will meat » that she’ll lose a whole lot of money.” “But won't Denton, Day & Co. be losing money, too?” _ “and of IOI asked Faith. She was a little too green to quite see the q _ logic of this action. (6(@) all (¢ = “Not a cent,” was the somewhat surprising answer. 500 CO ‘Ss