For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 192: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXXVII. THE BLESSING OF REPENTANCE. A week passed before Faith went to the store again. She was too utterly miserable to think of resuming her duties. Mr. Watkins called on her every night to bring her news of the store, and by this means she kept track of all Mr. Denton’s changes. One night Mr. Watkins had mentioned a number of things which had benefited the clerks as well as the cus- tomers, and in concluding his recital he sighed very heavily, an indication to Faith that there was something more behind it. “Why do you sigh, Mr. Watkins?” she asked, abruptly. “It seems to me that these changes should bring nothing but smiles, they are such necessary reforms, yet they have been so long in coming.” | “I was thinking of Mr. Denton, I suppose,” was the answer. “He’s such a good man now that.I hate to see him go to the wall completely. Why, Miss Marvin, have you any idea what these reforms have cost? I cannot tell you the figures exactly, of course; but the bills for the past month are enough to frighten one. If he continues his present methods he will not be in business a year longer.” | “I thought so,” said Mrs. Marvin, quickly. “Religion and business cannot be combined. The man who follows his conscience is sure to lose money.”’ | b “But he gains that which is better,” spoke up Faith, quickly. “Ask Mr. Denton if this is not true. He has_ found it so already.”’ “Well, his poor wife doesn’t share his sentiments,” said” Mr. Watkins, “for she has worried so fearfully over his” enormous losses already that she is now on the verge of losing her reason.” ~S Co > pe - Pa Se So com (¢ boo ‘S (€(0) a {