A Random "The Efficiency Expert" Cutup

"All right," said the girl, "run along and sell your papers." And she from the International Machine Company Jimmy went directly to the I guess I'm through, I have tried and

"Don't be a fool," said the attorney. "This client of mine can well latter was antagonistic and now that the two were alone together he was a job."

Rush hours on de surface line are usually good for two or t'ree hours a powerful acquaintances.

The recollection. "But where have you ever met him before?" Harriet having reached this decision, and following his habitual custom, he working here," said Bince after a moment's pause. "I want them "I showed them how they could turn out more work and make more money by his life work--the answering of blind ads in the Help Wanted columns of jimmy had many friends in Chicago with whom, upon the occasion of have done nothing."

More irritable had he known that Jimmy had just learned the amount of "What do you want?" she asked.

"I do like him, Elizabeth, for your sake. I suppose the trouble is that presence. It was in a mental attitude that had become almost habitual the flu had struck him as suddenly and as unexpectedly as it had number on a side street about a half block away, where she knew it would stratum of society to which we belong, and what we owe to the him in a place called Feinheimer's. He was a waiter. Then he was a i'll offer you mine. Whenever you want a job, look me up. I'm going to scrutiny of the clerk, and the advertiser realized that he had received "Naw," he said; "this is the safest place to work. If ten per cent of wonderfully brave of you," she said. "We could never do enough to repay that the C.P.A.'s discover it, as they will within the next day or and resumed his way toward the hotel.

"Impossible," said Bince. "The International Machine Company's pay-roll the accountants. As a matter of fact, he had never left them a moment revealed beneath the light of an adjacent arc, and she saw that it was elizabeth felt the color rising slowly to her cheek. She realized then "You will get it, won't you?" asked the girl.

College diploma and physique, he was still but a boy and so while it is portended he was unable to imagine.

"I ain't going to try to pull him down," said the girl. "And anyhow, mason Compton was at his office the next morning, contrary to the pleas "You don't think," said Jimmy, "that I would have put any money on that inflection even is that of a well-bred man."

Jimmy laughed and took off his apron as he walked back to the servants' she was very pretty. He had always thought her that, but somehow existence had been called to the attention of a policeman, and the same I think about it the more damning the circumstantial evidence against me and so he decided the wisest plan would be to insert an ad in the hands upon the sleeve of his cheap, ill-fitting coat. "You're up against bookkeeping, which can just as well be done here in the office as it is i'll stand a chance of makin' all the way from fifty dollars to five

Draw the payroll money Monday, the same day dey pay, but dis week things might have been if I had listened to you and believed in you at currency.

Buried treasure--there was always the chance that he would turn up seriously but pleasantly, and then she asked the turnkey if she might go "Do you think Elizabeth guessed what was in your mind?" asked Bince. Partnership proposition is still open."

Possibly you will permit me to kiss you," Bince finished for her. Eyelid did she betray the fact; which may possibly be accounted for by spirits. He was dressed for the first time, and assured her that he was his youth and strength and inherent ability, which, without egotism, he either. "Well, you see," he continued lamely, "they probably didn't know "Put up your hands," snapped O'Donnell for the second time, "and be "Not if you have any money to spend in his place."

And there would be Murray and the Compton millions against him; and as for a long time she demurred, but finally she acceded to his wishes, for there came a Saturday when Jimmy, jobless and fundless, dreaded his report the patient's condition.

Driving up the alley Jimmy stopped in the rear of a large and over this nervous condition if you and I were settled down here would turn up so that he would be acquitted, but I been watchin' the he had felt utterly alone and uncared for, and in this mental state he your last friend." And then noting the shop from which he had emerged they had ordered, Jimmy spread upon the table an evening paper he had them, and was emboldened thereby to offer him a bill in payment for his inserted blind he felt that there could be no possible connection "Take this one," he said, and handed Jimmy an automatic.

About the fellow. He told me only the other night that he really snapped the questions at Jimmy with the rapidity of machine-gun fire. To what he had been doin'. All that I had to do with it was go and crack

For the first time he learned of Mr. Compton's kindness and the fact "You say that a man came down from Mr. Compton's office just before you possibilities and requirements of my work, and I am sure that from now evening.

The prosecuting attorney, whose repeated objections to the testimony of "I'm taking it from an old crab who has more than he can use, and all of it was Christmas Eve. Elizabeth Compton and Harriet Holden were that horses had just entered and that their riders were dismounting, "You are just doing it to hold your position," retorted the girl, "and occasionally one might start something at Feinheimer's, but no one was in fact, for the past couple of weeks he had been using the man in an "But I didn't loan it to you," said Jimmy; "I gave it to you as a reward and sat for a long time looking at the ominous words of the enclosure. Several weeks of diligent practice, was able to put up apparently a very rounds. Billy said that he is really a wonderful fighter, and there are his class had the list been turned upside down.

Done was to connect himself with the particular big job that suited him. Has asked me to suggest that you take dinner with us this evening." What decency is, and if you're decent to them they think you're afraid the breaking-point.

"What of it?" he said. "Nobody would believe your story, but let's with a loud voice and the table manners of a Duroc-Jersey. Jimmy took an sat down on the soiled counterpane and wrote a letter.

Compton," she cried, "you wouldn't dare. You know you wouldn't dare!" A good-looking chap should be occupying such a menial position." To Jimmy's to the clerk, and received fully a hundred letters in return. Torrance's methods. And so she greeted Jimmy Torrance pleasantly, recollection the address that Harriet Holden had given him that night at company in this scenery. Do you see anything about my clothes that there's something wrong here. I can't get hold of Mr. Compton. I think "Unquestionably," said Jimmy. "He could wait on table better, too." to the floor.

And the gossip of the hangers-on and other sparring partners made it however, and the fact that his point of contact with the homes of his subjective attitude toward woman in the abstract is one of chivalrous long enough to presume to claim any close friendship, but there's no line in the West.

Christmas Eve at Feinheimer's is, or was, a riot of unconfined hilarity, although the Lizard knew that there was no danger of detection, yet from "Krovac," he said, "you don't like this man Torrance, do you?" Even worse. If you keep on like that I shall soon be telling David to to see the same street-sweeper several times in succession, although realizing that Compton did not care to discuss the matter of the he drove back toward the Loop he could feel successive hot waves suffuse of the same type. There is no way that I could identify the particular company's plant on West Superior Street. As he moved along he counted "Oh," he said, "he's a long way off and--if I'm no good to any one here the result was that within a few days Edith was released. From the who came occasionally from the upper stratum of society in the belief outstanding feature of each succeeding class from his freshman to his started to protest, "this is going to be on me. I never knew how much I "Like me?" exclaimed the young man. "I thought you loved me." Being driven north on Michigan Boulevard toward home. Elizabeth directed in here and find out just what is wrong with us. We have an

Good your hunch or intuition may be it would certainly get a terrible trial."

You will have to think about me as you please," he said; "I cannot it was at this moment that Mr. Compton was called to the telephone in an faintly that he had to lean close to catch her words:

"Everything's ready," the boss explained to the Lizard. "The whole there's lots of money being used against him. He might even be hanged. I north Avenue by the time you get there."

As I told you, it will all be fixed from de inside. Dere's no danger of efficiency expert must be a very superior sort of person."

Mirroring an utter dejection such as Jimmy Torrance had never before his business in the hands of an ex-waiter from Feinheimer's---that he "I've had enough to make any man nervous," retorted Bince irritably. "I five men had been laid off and no new ones employed since the previous each and every one; and then it occurred to him that he might occupy a remembrances--a custom that they had continued since childhood. The sort of folk, occupied entirely with their own affairs. He had made no indebted to the Lizard for a position, the latter knowing a politician you Elizabeth if you were not prejudiced you would agree with me. Dozen wealthy young men who had fully intended to place large sums on evening when Bince was at her home.

Jimmy sat down on the edge of the bed beside her and stroked her hand. From above him might have been described as nervous and repressed; for with him, and which was superinduced by these influences, that Jimmy "I don't mind telling you, Mr. Torrance," he said, "that I consider the appeared nervous and irritable, and he would have been more nervous and mr. Bince, and his daughter, aside from one which he had at home, which a slow and broad grin illumining his face.

Nothing. I can hang onto it until something better turns up." Oft-repeated assertion relative to her "hunch", that he would make good. "It looks like a new casing," he said. "It would be too bad to ruin it. Escort."

Hid down there in the shop where he could watch you drop the envelope "What are you going to do now?" asked the Lizard.

"I thought he knew a lot about it," said the girl. "That's why I sent "She is such a sweet girl," she said, "and always so cheerful. She is see in it anything which could possibly prove damaging to him. Higher education."

Appeared nervous and irritable, and he would have been more nervous and energy and experience will be appreciated.

"What you have," replied Mr. Brown, "is a hell of a crust. Now, run notch in the social scale or down a notch? From the view-point of the "Yes," said Harriet, "his suit was shabby, but his linen was clean and named. It was generally believed and solemnly sworn to throughout the ask for it; and when I do you will know that I have failed.

Difficulty in determining who they might approach and who they might he always got drunk like a gentleman. Therefore we should do everything grave mistake, but that it is casting a reflection on my work. It is attorney. She told the lawyer that some new evidence was to have been sitting in his room that night he took account of his assets and his he was putting on his overcoat when Elizabeth Compton emerged from the "Go out and hunt for another job," said Jimmy.

Dip and--a"--she hesitated--"a girl like me, and no matter how high he said as she bid him good-bye.

Shrewdly, "they will be just as glad to forget it as we. And anyway it murray took the letter and read it over several times. He was trying to and that must mean something. If dad had only reproached me or skate."

Night a certain element of the underworld claimed it as their own, and "Miss anything?" he asked.

"Want to sit in a little game to-night, Harold?" asked one of them. Way I shall start."

You were seen in Feinheimer's with Mr. Bince on March--Do you recall got to be prepared for such a contingency, especially now that we have stairway. His door was unceremoniously thrown open, and there appeared "I guess you're too square," said the girl. "I heard about that Brophy taking all the work that we can possibly handle at the highest prices we influence. As the car moved slowly northward along the world's greatest jimmy.

The kitchen, came hurriedly forward. "Open up some wine," commanded beginning next week. I thought of making it fifteen dollars," and with went, and two weeks later his cigarette-case and ring followed. Jimmy "Thanks," said Jimmy, and returned to the shops to continue his study of "Oh, it's nothing," said Jimmy ruefully. "I'm getting used to it." however, that I spurn the check, which it was just like you

Then she excused herself on the plea of nervous exhaustion and went to "All right," said the girl, "I'll be there. You tell him that he simply "The feature that appeals to me most strongly is that you have been able hosiery.

Sat there looking she saw the expression of the face before her change. "Maybe you'll have better luck the next time," growled Bince. Jimmy nodded.

"How utterly horrible!" exclaimed Elizabeth. "Come, David! Come, to his bedside.

Return to the Indiana Avenue rooming-house, where he knew the landlady out of it, and you better do the same. I'm goin' to put up every cent I requires people to pine away when they are not together and bore his face because he's hiding behind the prosecuting attorney." Attorney. She told the lawyer that some new evidence was to have been "I like you, kid," she said. "You're not fresh. You know what I am as it was a hot July day that James Torrance, Jr., alighted from the wonder," she said as she returned to her room, "if he is going to be evidently awaiting him.

His youth and strength and inherent ability, which, without egotism, he count on the balance-sheet? I do not quite understand."

Mein Gott!" he cried. "What kind of a place you think I run, young well, of all--"

Oh!" said Harriet. "He was nice-looking, wasn't he? But he looked out working on the Compton case and whose boast it had been that sooner or a new and more up-to-date system."

Now, rather than to fail of graduation. And in this decision I am fully alter the aspect of the case.

Something within Jimmy Torrance rebelled to a point where it utterly income-tax schedule would be simpler than mine."

The prize-fighter at the training quarters and the milk-wagon driver. During which time Murray would have completed his work.

Which Little Eva had existed and who knew something of her past, could if I went to the jug for it," but his hunger had not made him as sister."

Bad that some of these poor creatures couldn't have the advantages of elizabeth turned slowly upon her friend, "You don't like Harold," she who was heavily interested in a dairy company, with the result that bince appeared in the court-room only when necessity compelled his one of those strange apparitions which is the envy and despair of the help you in some way, if you are not entirely satisfied with your up you ever get if your foot slips up will bob O'Donnell with these two

This shop has short hours and good pay, but if we don't get rid of him responded Jimmy.

"He might have a worse friend," replied the Lizard non-committally. "I like you, kid," she said. "You're not fresh. You know what I am as it's none of my business, and if the suckers want to bet their money on it was a noisy, joyous crowd whose spirit, harmonizing with the bright her side and putting an arm around her.

Was really she that imbued my father and his attorney with a belief in and that was the end.