For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 99: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIX. +e ‘ q = 4 tf o. FAITH GETS ACQUAINTED WITH THR THIEF. adi . It was impossible for any one to see Maggie Brady’ So face without reading in it how much she hated the girl ‘who she thought had stolen her lover from her. Miss. ae Fairbanks turned on her heel and walked away laughing, — while several of the clerks began jeering Maggie quietly. - “You are not the only pebbie on the beach; did you © ‘think you were, Mag? There are others, you see! Why, you're not one, two, three in Jim Denton’s good graces! “Off with the old and on with the new! There’ 5 no ‘one proves the truth of that proverb oftener than a cer- ‘tain young man I could mention! However, Maggie, | don’t throw up the sponge ! You've got the first claim ‘on Jim Denton—why don’t you let him know it?” | ' Faith listened to these words in utter amazement. She d ei ye o ’ ‘was distressed beyond measure that this unfortunate phing should have happened. look that was positively shocking. for she was being addressed by a customer. ' if e there 1 is no objection.” | prageed behind the counter during the excitement about | “My dear, can you tell me where that young lady is” —Number 80, I think, they called her. She waitedon me a nicely the other day that I would like to see her again she was glad enough when a number of customers __ came in. She was beginning to dread these occasional Tals in business. Maggie Brady had not said a word “in reply to any of the taunts, but her face had paled until ‘the two spots of rouge on her cheeks gave her a dete Faith felt so sorry for the girl that she did not know o Schat to do, but there was no time to waste in thin Sa ee _ Before she had finished speaking Faith had recognized — It was the kind old lady whom Miss Jennings had pe ean comicbooks (e(0)