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lations with his customers, knew his |
business intimately. I was catapult- |
ed into control of a big organization
1 knew nothing about. If it had been
smaller I might have had a chance.
It was that which gave me the idea of
starting small. 2 :
«I still think my original idea was
a good one—just a single shop. But
ideas grow fast. I began to think of
half a dozen shops, then a dozen.
Each in charge of an expert, selected
from Leicester's, who would own 2a
share in it, maintain close personal
relations with clerks and customers.
“I don’t,” commented Bettina, “see
anything wrong with that idea.”
The moonlight revealed his smile,
gallant yet a bit dry. “You might
ask your father his opinion of it, he
suggested. “And of my big idea—
which was that the shops could be
used as a cornerstone for a depart-
ment store which would eventually fill
the building I bought.”
Bettina glanced up at him. “Are
—you sorry now that you sold out?
she asked abruptly. :
“No,” he said deliberately. His
eyes met hers squarely, revealingly.
She did not speak or move. She
couldn’t. Then he himself broke the
spell. “I suspect,” he said, with a
glance at the luminous dial of his
wrist watch, “that it’s time I started
you homewards.”
The moon that rode over them as
the long-nosed roadster coursed back,
the throbbing motor, the rush of the
wind, were like subtle drugs. They
hardly spoke.
“Thank you,” said Peter when he
dropped her at the hotel.
“It’s I who should thank you,” she
protested. To which she added an im-
pulsive, “If you want to let me know,
some time, how things are coming, I'd
be interested, truly.” Which, from
Bettina, was a considerable admis-
sion. ;
It was almost eleven the next night
when her father returned. He was
tired, she knew. Even his eyes, smil-
ing at her, were weary. .
“What have you been up to while
I was gone?” he asked.
“I went for a ride with Peter—I |
mean Mr. Leicester, last night,” she!
confessed. “He told me a lot about |
his ideas and his shops.”
“Were you pledged to secrecy—or
may I share his rosy dream with
you?”
“They aren’t very rosy,” she ve-
torted. “He seems to think he may
have made a mistake. When I ask-
ed him why, he told me to ask you
why. [I'll tell you some time.”
He gave her a swift glance. “Tell
me now.”
He listened, without comment,
while Bettina repeated what Peter
had told her. Then, “A department
store—good Lord!” he said. :
He considered that a second, while
her eyes questioned his. :
“His ideas are going in opposite
directions,” he explained. “Take just
the shops. The basic idea seems to
tie them together, but they are not
homogeneous. Their appeal is limit- |
ed, too, for they do suggest exclusive- |
ness and expensive things. If he had,
instead of selling out, retained con-
trol of Leicester's and used its re-
sources to stock such shops, he——"
There he checked himself.
“But he didn’t,” he commented.
“And though the shops might make
profitable adjuncts to a down-town
department store, as the cornerstone
of an up-town department store
they’re pipe-dreams.”
“Then—then he will fail?”
tested Bettina.
His shrewd eyes read her face and
briefly something seemed to tighten
around his heart. But his voice re-
mained unchanged.
“A man may fail in the sense that
he goes broke,” he said, “but he is
still ‘alive, and if he is any good he
has learned something, acquired ex-
perience, which is the most valuable
capital a man can possess. Your
young friend might have invested nis
millions safely and yet been a failure
to my way of thinking—and yours
too, I suspect. He may lose them—
though I see no reason why he should
if he’ll listen to reason.”
“Would—would you talk to him?”
suggested Bettina eagerly. {
“Me? Good Lord! You forget
I’ve never even met him. He as much
as told the other stockholders he saw
no reason why he should talk to me.”
“I think hed love to just the
same,” persisted Bettina. “If you
only would—"
“Love it too?” he grimaced. “It
would be a waste of time, kitten.
He—" The sentence broke off there
as his eyes met hers. “Oh, all right,”
he surrendered. “But let’s not make.
it too formal. Why not just invite
him to dinner some night and see
what, if anything, he has to say for
himself 7”
“That’s my sweetheart,” paeaned
Bettina and kissed him swiftly.
But again his heart constricted.
This was Thursday, the seven-
teenth of March. To Bettina, consid-
ering the prospective dinner date, it
seemed that sometime during the
next week would be best, preferably
toward the last of the week.
But that night she dreamed of
Peter again. Almost a nightmare,
this time. He seemed to be in a great
building that was falling down on
him. Of course all dreams are silly.
Yet when she awoke from this Bet-
tina did not grin.. Or think, “Of all
men, him!”
Temperamental March was back on
the job this morning—the wind blew
chill from the east. But though the
sun wag still brilliant enough to dis-
sipate the mental miasmas that un-
pleasant dreams weave around the
moment of waking, Bettina’s persist-
ed through breakfast and thereafter.
“Perhaps,” she concluded, “if he
has no engagement for tonight——"
The telephone book gave his num-
pro-
' directions she started to give the taxi
| she assured herself—he did not refer
to study him and his methods.”
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ber. Not of the shops but of his
apartment. But his phone did not
answer. Not at eleven, twelve-thir-
ty, two or four.
“] guess that settles it!” she an-
nounced.
Nevertheless, it didn’t! The young
psychologist could have told her that
it hadn’t.
“Pll take a taxi and drop in cn
Father,” she decided.
She believed that it was pure im-
pulse that caused her to change the
driver.
“He won't be there now, of course,”
to her father—“but it won’t do any
harm to stop a minute and see.”
The building which she had vision-
ed in her dream ag collapsing on Pe-
ter seemed reasonably proof against
any such gymnastics as the taxi paus-
ed before it. :
“Wait—I’ll be jut a second,” she
told the driver.
The arcade which ran through the
building was deserted, for Peter’s
crew had quit at five.
“Mr. Leicester?” repeated the lone
elevator operator. “I guess you'll
find him in the French shop.”
The little French shop presented an
inhospitable front, soft gray draper-
ies closing off show-window and
door. Bettina knocked.
So, curiously enough, did her heart.
The door opened. And there stood
Peter. Taken by surprise but with a
swift gladness in his eyes as he in-
vited her in.
“You’ve heard the news, I sup-
pose,” he said.
“News—what news?” asked Bet-
tina. Then, ignoring her own ques-
tion, added quickly, “Could you come
to dinner tonight? With Father and
me?”
“I’m sorry,” he replied, and his
voice was ever so sorry, “but I've got
another engagement. I promised Ma
and Jim I'd run down to the camp
tonight. They want to celebrate the
—the gift I told you about. I—could
you come?”
Bettina wavered. She wanted to,
somehow. Awfully! Yet: “I wanted
you to meet Father,” she protested.
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“But I have met him. This morn-
ing. I thought that was why you
came. He's going to take over my
shops, as a part of Leicester’s.”
“You—you mean to say you've sold
them to him!” gasped Bettina.
“He has the habit of buying things,
you know,” Peter reminded her. “And ’
it struck me that these shops would
go better with Leicester’s resources |
behind them.”
“Why—that’ just what father |
said!” i
“Great minds!” he commented, with
a swift smile. “Anyway, I pointed
out that I had a good location for
what Leicester’s used to call the car-'
riage trade and 2 ;
“But—what are you going to do?”
“Learn the department store busi-
ness from the ground up—I’'m swap-!
ping the shops in for a block of stock.
Your father has promised to find me
a job. I don’t know just what and
I don’t care. It will give me a chance
He
paused, but Bettina, still bewildered
said nothing. “I suppose,” he re-
marked, “that it sounds as if I ate!
But—well, your father is ai
prince, Bet—I mean Miss West. He
can make crow taste like Vermont
turkey.” !
“Don’t you believe it!” Bettina as-'
sured him swiftly. “I’ve seen Father
make men he had no use for eat crow |
—and they knew it was crow. He |
must like you.”
“He did say I wasn’t as half-baked
as some of the other stockholders had
led him to think,” admitted Peter,
“or Sree?
“Half-baked!” echoed Bettina in-
dignantly. “Why, I think—"
There she checked herself quickly. |
As she should. Why should she tell |
him what she thought of him? Or he
be particularly interested?
Yet he was plainly. “What do you
think ?” he asked eagerly. |
“I—I think I'd better go,” murmur-
ed Bettina hastily. i
Nevertheless, she didn’t move. It!
was as if Peter’s eyes, besieging hers, |
held her prisoner. She evaded them |
desperately until, against her will, |
their glances met. Then: i
“Oh!” she breathed involuntarily— |
and was immediately silenced. !
The little shop from the rue de la
Paix might have been even smaller
without inconveniencing them. Al
telephone booth would have provid-
ed the space they needed as his arms
went swiftly around her and his lips
! discovered hers.
Presently, “I never dreamed I had
a chance,” he murmured huskily.
“You are so proud of your father and
his success that I thought that unless
a man was a regular ball of fire in
business——"
“I thought so myself,” she confess-
ed. But her eyes, meeting his, re-
moved any sting that might be in that '
even before she added, “But I'll bet |
youll be a ball of fire yet. Not that |t, place some object 25 feet ahead of |
it matters y i
They sprang apart hastily. The
door to the little shop had opened and
a voice was speaking.
“Say,” it demanded, “how aboat ;
that taxi?”
} FGiracious;® gasped, Bettinap “I'd
completely forgotten—"
She paused to blush to her charm-
ing ears as Peter quickly offered the
driver a bill.
The driver glanced at the bill and
automatically reached into his pocket
for change. And as automatically
withdrew his hand. He, ag the phrase
goes, knew his onions,
oT can’t break this,” he complain-
e
“Don’t bother to,” advised Peter
pointedly.
The driver grinned. “Much obliged,”
he said and, disciplining a desire to
wink, withdrew.
The wink, however, was only mo-
mentarily delayed. He tendered it
to the elevator man as he fluttered
the bill under the latter’s nose.
“See that?” he exulted. “Got it
from the guy in there—caught him
with a case of regular pre-war stuff
in his arms.”
About what these days passes for
love he was a cynic. Yet he did know
che real thing when he saw it. Pre-
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