For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 134: what you’re looking at

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Ah as Some Startling Changes, : soberly. “T can understand how he feels, and | think anyway, tor your sake, Miss Fairbanks, I know just: he is very brave to give such orders.” “Then he says,’ went on Miss Fairbanks, “that there are to be new arrangements for you girls. You are to be relieved every two hours tor. about twenty minutes. ‘That means, of course, that he is going to hire a lot of ~ new help, and I, for one, am sorry, for there’ll be blun- . ders by the hundred.” “Oh, ‘perhaps not,” said Faith, brightly. “I hope ents: how annoying it is for you, who have so many clerks to. look after.”’ Kittle surprise. It was not often that one of her Soe Miss Fairbanks looked at her exwisieles but with a expressed any sympathy for her. “Then, there’s to be a full hour at luncheon,’ bs contin- ued the buyer after a minute, ‘‘and the best of all is that we are to have a new lunch-room. No niore eating m that rat hole down in the basement.” “Well, that is good news,’ said Miss Jones delight-. edly. “Really, I begin to think that the millennium ts coming!” “Or the Kingdom of God,” said Faith, very happily. ~ “Ehere is no doubt’ in my mind but that Mr. Denton has become a Christian.” Both women stared at her as she spoke, but, for a wonder, neither of them scoffed at her statement. A _ Miss Fairbanks recovered herself first and asked a very | natural question. “What do you mean by saying that he has become a Christian? Why, Mr. Denton has been a member of the church ever since I can remember.” “Alas!” sighed Faith sadly. “That doesn’t always signify, Miss Fairbanks. He may have accepted Christ but not Christ’s spirit; but it is plain now that the very essence of godliness is awakening within him. Hf this is so [I can predict that there will be great changes im this store and that every one will be for the comfort of its toilers.” A few customers coming in cut short the conversation, and as Maggie Brady was absent the department was EComicbooks.com —