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100 Much Efficiency
Alice stifled an angry exclamation,
Hushed, and then nodded.
She could not stack her pride a
gainst a hundred dollais a month,
particularly when she was ‘'flat.”
Hedge made s me more figures.
“I will continue these gratuties,”
he said abrutly.
“Allowances, please!” reminded
Alice.
“Allowances, if you perfer it. One
word is as short as the other. I
shall, however, reduce them.”
Constane rose out of her chair as
if impelled by some unseen force.
She wheeled and glared across the
room. Billy stopped in his tracks.
“All allowances will be reduced
fifty per cent,” announced Hedge,
“until further investigation.”
There was a mobilization of
Brookes on the opppsite side of the
table. Alice was thankful for the
arrival of her reserves.
“You are to cut —our alowances—
in half?” she asked slowly.
“In half—payable daily,” said the
efficiency man.
“Daild!”
“Daily!”
Alice was frightened, She felt the
reassuring hand of Constance on her
shoulder and looked up at her ap
pealingly.
“You do the rest, Connie” she
murmured.
“I find,” said Hedge as he con
tinued to make rapid figures, “that
your father has been paying two of
you at the rate of approximately I
$6.66 a day, including Sunday and
holidays, and the other at the rate of
about $3.33 a day. Out of this what
do you spend?”
“All,” said Billy. “What did you
expect?”
“What' for?”
“Why, anything we want, of
course!”
“Clothing—shoes—light or heat?”
pueried Hedge briskly.
“Most certainly not!” exclaimed
Constance frigidly.
“Do you mean to tell me. Miss
Brooke, that you, for example, do
not at least purchase your clothing;
out of the sum of $2400 a year?”
Constance laughed, but it was
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I “He talks as if we were panhand
-1 lers.”
| mirthless. She glanced down at her
1 dress, and continued to laugh.
| “If you understood anything about
I gowns, you would not ask such a
question,” she said. “Os course, I do
'not use my alowance for any such
purpose. It is wholly for personal
expenses, as I see fit to use it."
Clothes are personal, are they
not?”
“Personal—perhaps,” she admitted
coldly. “But they are on father.”
“And is this also true of you?” de-
I manded Hedge, glancing sharply at
Billy.
“And then some,” declared Billy.
“Why, I don’t even buy gasoline out I
of mine!” |
“Well,” observed Hedge judicially,!
“if none of you employ your allow-,
ances in the purchase of food, cloth,-
ing, or the necessities of life, which I
are otherwise provided by your |
father, I see no legitimate reason for,
any allowances at all.”
There was a chorus of cries from
the three Brookes.
“Nevertheless,” he continued,“l
am not disposed to be harsh; merely
just .1 am not her e to tear down or
destroy; simply to reorganize and !
regulate. While I feel that even a
reduction of fifty per cent in your |
allowances does not fully meet this ;
extraordinary situation, 1 shall not :
press the matter further at this time. .
Miss Brooke and Mr. Brooke, you |
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will hereafter receive $3.33 per day
each. Alice will be paid $1.66.
All payments w" he made daily, at
rtis office, and ,’uuchers will be duly
signed by each pers, .. • eceiving the
same.”
Constance was tur ‘d iutr a .tony
image. Alice was tremb. ng, wit . a
tell-tale quiver of her lips. Billy
stormed.
“We won’t stand for it!” he cried
shaking his fist across the desk.
Whereupon the efficiency man
asked a famous question:
“What are you going to do about
it?”
“Fight!”
“Very good. How?”
“Why—why, simply refuse to put
up with it!”
“You mean rather than accept less
than two hundred dollars a month
you will take nothing? Is that it?”
Bill hesitated and felt Constance
pulling his sleeve.
“Because,” added Hedge, “if that 1
is the case, I shall be greatly grati
fied. 1 really cannot see why you
children need any money at all, liv
ing as you do and being fully pro
vided for. If you refuse to accept a
reduced gratuity it will mean, of
course, that I shall sav e a hundred,
instead of fifty per cent, on this item
of household waste. I should be glad
to make such a saving. Are you
with me or against me?"
“Against you!”
It was the shrill and quivering
voice of Alice that cried out.
“Very well,” h e said. “All allow
ances are reduced bv one-half, to go
into effect without further notice.”
Constance rallied from her stupor.
“We accept this humiliation,” she
said bitterly, “because, until our
father returns, we can do nothing
else. We are helpless. You have in
sulted us by calling it a gratuity.
We are not beggars—but we are
again helpless. But we do demand
that our allowances, or such part of
them as you see fit to pay, shall be
given to us in the regular manner
in a lump sum monthly.”
“A month in advance?” said the
efficiency man, elevating his eyes
brows. “Why? Do you spend it all
the first day?”
Os course not. But that does not
alter our right to receive it all at
once.”
“Too much temptation.” said
Hedge, shaking his head. “Besides,
it’s not economic. Perhaps you do
not know it, but many banks pay
interest on daily balances. This is
the case with the bank in which
your father left an account for this
household. That account is under
my sole charge. By paying the three
of you $250 a month - Ivance an
appreciable amount of interest will
be lost. By paving you $8.32 per day,
the remainder of a considerable sum’
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reduced, of cour-c. by daily drafts,
remains at interest. Tnat in the
policy that I shall follow. You wiil
be paid in checks each morning.”
“This,” said Constance, stonily, “is
the crowning outrage.”
“I’m serry you look at'it that way,
Miss Brooke. It is simply good busi
ness. However, I’m willing to put it
this way, if you object to a daily
check—l will make weekly payments
at the end, however, rather than the
I beginning of the week. If you ac
cept this arrangement, the first pay
ment will be made a week from to
day.”
Constance wavered. She had $2.79
left. Perhaps for a week she could
'stand it. But Billy and Alice were
Ito be thought of. They were desti
tute. No; the pride of the Brooke
family would have to grovel, before
this creature. It. was the daily wage,
of bankruptcy.
“We wish to talk it over,” she
said.
“Certainly,” assented Hedge.
Constance led the way across the
hall, through the big reception-room
I and into a far corner of the music-
Iroom, where they were safe from
I prying ears. It was Billy who spoke
first.
| "You made a fine mess of it,
I Alice!” he exclaimed.
t “Alice did her best,” declared Con
1 -stance defensively. PWould you
have done any better?”
"Mell, why couldn’t she have given
him the idea Wu earned this money.
<>r something like that?”
“Earn it!” jeered Alice. “A lot we
do to tern it } and jou know it.”
■r,. •■;'! v a s if we were paiman
dier.-,” growled Billy.
It—k was like standing on a
bread line,” groaned Alice.
“Come,” interrupted Constance.
•Veve got to decide. It’s half, or
nothing.”
I v.on’t take half!” stormed her
brother.
“Do you want nothing, then? You
1 now very well none of us ever had
a bank account. We never even
thought of asking for cne, when
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father was here. Now, listen; you’d
better take this fifty per cent offer,
because if you don’t Billy, you won’t
have a cent to your name.”
There was an inarticulate rumbl
ing in his throat.
“And you’ll be in the same fix,
Alice, all of us,” continued Con
stance. “We can’t go around like
beggars; you know it. For my part,
I’m going to take mine.”
“Can’t we borrow the rest some
where?”
“Billy!”
The proposal shocked Constance,
because it assailed her Brooke pride.
“None of us will ever brrow, if I
can help it,” sh e said stoutly. Then,
after a pause: “Well, now that we’ve
accepted half, shall we take it by the
day or the week?”
“Let’s go back and fight for it by
the month in advance,’/ said Billy.
Constance shook her head.
“It would do no good,” she said.
"Don’t you see how he’s got us? He
has all the money and we’ve only
got $2.79 between us—and that’s all
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mine. And I can see he is not going
to change his mind. He hasn’t yet,
on anything. For my part, I’m think
ing of you and Alice.”
(To Be Continued)
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I The 1925 Tax Books are now
; open. Pay your taxes early and
I avoid extra cost, as fifas will posi
| tiveiy be issued Dec. Ist. 1925
I A. D. GATEWOOD, JR.
Clerk and Treasurer.