For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 133: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXVI. SOME STARTLING CHANGES. As the days went by the employees of the big depart | ment store became gradually aware that something had happened. The first intimation came from the daily. papers, in which was given a more or less truthful account — of Mr. Day’s withdrawal from the firm on the. grounds that he disapproved of his senior partner’s new business > The methods. What these methods were it peiiained to be seen. clerks were hopeful of some reforms, but for a while they only wondered and waited. Miss Fairbanks stopped at Faith’s counter early one began talking to her in an unusually affable manner. i pretty serious. Either Mr. Denton has got religion, or ~ “There’s something going to happen here soon,’ “morning, when the store was comparatively empty, and ’ she said, confidently. “And, j in my-.opinion, it’s going to be else he’s gone crazy, for he’s giving us buyers a lot of orders nowadays that will mean the failure of the firm 1f we are obliged to obey them.” “Why, what are they, Miss Fairbanks?” Faith asked in surprise. Miss Jones came up also and listenéd for the answer. “Well, in the first place, we-are not to beat down the |. drummers any more, but are to offer them fair prices _ on all our orders. Then we are to learn, if possible, — who makes the goods that we buy, for Mr. Denton Says _he does not want to make a profit out of some poor _ woman's work while she is going half clothed and per- _ haps sick and starving.” “Why, the man is stark mad,” said Miss Jones, in amazement. ‘As if it was any concern of his what other people work for!” wt think he is quite right, a renaekie Faith, very “co mM cS (€} 0 00 V0) (E(0)