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Too Much Efficiency
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H. Hedge rose from his chair.
"Once more I’ll show you now to
punch the clock,” he said.
“P’ease let him show you, Mary,”
said Constance hastny. i»e are
really very hungry.”
"'the poor, tarnished sweetheart!”
exclaimed Mary contritely. Then.,
with look of scorn tor me efficiency
man: “Here’s the key, thin. Show
me I”
H. Hedge took the key and exam
ined it.
“Have you been trying to puncn I
the clock with this key?” he de
manded.
“This hour gone,” replied Mary
stonily.
“Hut this is Giovanni’s key.”
“Well, the Eyetalian sassanach!
Lave me at him!”
“Oh, probably an innocent mis
take,” said H. Hedge. "He un
douhtedly took your key by mistake
iiul left you his.”
"Mistake, is it? 'Tis the last mis
take. thin. I’ll have no Eyetalian
punchin* in as cook whilst I’m ir.
this house. An', be all the powers,
I’ll feed no furrnace, ayther. .
The swiftness of Mary’s exit was
surprising, and it was all the H.
Hedge could do to keep pace with
her. Twenty minutes later there was 1
breakfast in the dining-room The j
three Brakes were so hungry that 1
eve Alice ate her pi\nes,
“How do I, get some gasoline?” de- |
maided Billy Brooke, bearding the
lion in the library jungle.
The efficiency man reached for a
large volume, and turned deftly to a
page. Then he thrust a hand into a
drawer and drew forth a blueprinted
slip. It had a serial number in the
upper left hand corner.
‘‘Fill that out,” he said tersely.
‘‘l’l! show you how.”
Billy took the slip wonderingly
and reached for a pen.
"Date it,” said H. Hedge.
Lily obeyed.
‘‘X’ow write, ‘lo2—dash —TW
d;-I -XXX., Got it?”
Billy exhibited the slip.
‘Let’s see—lO2—TW—XXX. Cor- !
n . How many gallons?”
" >h, about twenty."
"Try ten. for a start. How many
nd!, < ale you getting to a gallon?” |
’ Search me. I never noticed.”
H. Hedge looked at Billy with a
,•.lined expression in his eyes.
' Well, I want you to ta’ ■, partic
le: • notice hereafter. Begin today. '
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“Do you mean to tell me you paid one hundred oOuars for
that thing?"
If it runs less than fifteen miles to
the gallon, the subway will be a lot
cheaper. Put down ten gallons.”
Billy scowled, but put down ten.
"Now sign it..”
The signature was hastily scrawl
ed. • '
"What do 1 do with this?” demand
ed Billy.
"Leave Wt with me. I’ll take care
of it.”
"But when do 1 get the gas?”
"Probably tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow! Man, I want it now!”
“Sorry. But I cannot have my
system disarranged.”
“Oh, it’s a system, is it?” sneered
Billy. “That’s all we ge t nowdays
-system. We’re living on a live
able and we deport it writing, if
anybody breaks a teacup, they write
.-i book about it, and then you file
the book away in a drawer and index
it. And say—what’s 102—TVV
<XX, anyhow?”
"That’s gasoline."
“Gee! No wonder the stuff ; s go
ing up. Why can’t I just write down
gas, ten’?”
“Because I have standardized al!
in chases, and because 102—TW—-
XXX happens to represent the classi
ication and serial number of gaso
'ine. It’s exceedingly!” echoed Billy.
'But I haven’t a pint of gas left and
chat am 1 going to do todav?”
"Walk.”
Billy walked out of the library
with his big fists clenched ano bor
rowed two dollars from Alice. He
was leaving the houstf when Con
stance met him.
'•Did you get your gasouim all
right?” she asked.
“Oh. sure,” he told her. “He's got
i great system. It's dead easy.” |
Constance did not detei" the
irony in her brother’s voice She not
ed only the words, and they kindled ■
1 ope in her breast. If Billy could
get gasoline—well, watch her.
“1 require a hat,” she informed H.
Hedge. When she had sought him out.
"How is it arranged, please?” ’
The efficiency man reached for
his large book and turned to
“Hats." I
“ ‘Hat.— women's,’ ” he read, as
his finger reached the subdivision.
“What kind of a woman’s hat?
Straw?”
“In December?” she inquired,
icily.
• ’’Plush?”
She shivered.
“Then please tell me exactly w.iat
you desire in the way of a hat.”
C c "
“I do not know.”
11. Hedge sat back in his chair and
regarded her with astonishment.
“You mean to say that you wan:
•a hat, but you do not know win
kind?”
Cci laiiily! How can 1 tell what I
want until 1 have .-een them? Did |
you ever buy a woman’s hat?”
“No; I admit that I neven did.
Yet there should be no difficulty'
about it that I can see.”
Constance smiled, faintly. It
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.HE AMERICUS TIME«-RECORDEK
seemed that the oracle did not know
all things, at any rate.
“I shall probably visit ten or a
dozen shopes, " she observed evenly.
“Oh, that’s al! right. I’ve sent
copies of the purchase-list to all
firms with which we maintain ac
counts:” *
She winced at the “we.’
“What I want to get at is the type
of hat, the grade, or whatever the
customary description.”
Constance considered.
“Well,” she said: “I shall prob
ably buy a small hat, and very like
ly it will have fur on it. In a general
way, it will probably be o toque.”
The efficiency man ran rapidly
throught a list, and made a memoran
dum.
“Price?” he asked briskly.
“I haven’t the least idea.”
Again he was amazed.
“But you must have some idea.
“Two dollars? Three dollars?”
“Two dollars!”
He glanced up at the delicately
wrought handiwork which at that
moment crowned her soft brown
hair, with a lead pencil?”
“What did that cost?”
Constance touched it lightly, as if
for identification.
“Really, I don’t recall,”, she as
swered indifferently.
“Approximately?”
“Oh, perhaps a hundred.”
“One hundred dollars!”
“Surely. Something like that. It
came from Luxembourg shop.”
H. Hedge studied the hat with in
terest. He even committed the sac
rilege of rising from his seat, lean
ing over and feeling the texture of
it with his fingers.
“Do you mean to tell me that you
paid one hundred dollars for that
thing?”
She stifled her anger and merely
nodded.
“I might add that my father paid
the bill—and asked no questions.”
[ “How long ago?”
“I think it was about three weeks
ago.”
“A hundred for a hat, and a new
one in three weeks?” he exclaimed.
"The season has changed,” she ex
plained sweetly.
| “1 recall only four seasons a
year,” observed the efficiency man
abruptly.
“In 'a year—possibly,” conceded
Constance. “But not in hats.”
(To Be Continued)
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