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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 21, 1925
Too IVluch Efficiency
* By E.J<S§*>Ra#
“I wish,” said the efficiency man .
on the day after New Year, “that I
you would reconsider.”
He was addressing Constance •
Brooke, Who had entered the “of
tice tor the purpose or getting a
book. Since the episode of the court
yard there had been no speech be
tween them. Constance had been
having meals sent to her room, a
proceeding to which H. Hedge inter
posed no objection. He was in a >
mood to make concessions; he was |
thankful for the loom of the back
stairs.
Constance looked at him sharply
and flushed.
“I have reconsidered,” she said
shortly. “I shall not marry.”
The efficiency man’s pulse skipped
a beat, but he preserved an exterior
calm.
“Very good,” he nodded. “I pre
sume you refer to Mr. Treadwell.”
“To anybody—everybody!”
Her back was turned toward him
and her fingers were running lightly j
over the books on a shelf.
“That is what I should call a
wholesale reconsideration,” he re
marked judicially. “It is sufficiently
inclusive to be ominous. The world
will wear mourning. However—”
He paused as he noted the deepen
ing pink of her ears.
“Howevei—”
He paused again, this time to ob
serve more closely tne poise of her
well-set head. Constance dropped a
book on the floor and stopped to re-1
cover it. |
“However, that is not what I want
ed you to reconsider.” t
She picked up the book and faced
him, her cheeks aflame. He was
laughing at her, she knew; he had
tricked her! Yet his face was im
passive and wholly devoid of mirth.
In fact, it was thoughtful. Even in
her anger and confession, she won
dered what imperious necessity com
pelled H. Hedge to be so consistently
intolerable. I
“What l wanted you to reconsid
er,” he explained, “was duties of a
secretary in this establishment.
“Oh!” she said faintly.
Yes, he had tricked her! She was
raging at herself for having fallen
into the snare. Yet how was she to
know that he did not intend to refer
to the downfall of Tommy Tread
well? Her own mind hal held no oth
er thought for the past twenty
four hours. The whole business of
trying to escape fro serfdom had hu
miliated her. She was even angry
at Tommy. Perhaps he had done his
best—but why hadn’t he done better?
He was bigger than H. Hedge; he
looked stronger. Why didn’t h e win?
Perhaps efficiency really meant
something, after all.
Yet, as she stood confused and ex
aspered, the turnjoil of her mind sud- J
denly resolved itself into calm. Ir,
that instant a great idea was born.
Constance was utterly amazed at \
the discovery. The idea was nothing
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Whatever Connie was doing, she
was doing willingly and she was
taking orders.
that she had grouped or striven for;
is simply flashed upon her. Yet it
was the solution of the whole terri
ble problem!
“Buck up!” she whispered to her
self. “Play the part. This is where
you win!”
tile efficiency man waited polite
ly for her to reconsider the secretari
al proposition.
She steeled herself to the task,
summoned ail the Spartan in her na
ture, and smiled at him.
“1 had forgotten about your need
of a secretary,” she said.
“It still exists, Miss Brooke.”
“Then show me what to do
please.”
it came so suddenly that the effi
ciency man found it necessary to
steady himself against the desk. He
had been prepared for battle nt ab
ject surrender.
“Why— er—yes,” he said. “Glad
to show you. There’s lot of back
work, you know.”
Constance, working at th e other
side of the library table, was a dis
concerting vision, even to an effici
ency man. There was a freshness In
her cheeks that suggested a rose
garden. Her gray eyes were steady
and serene. Tendrils of hair curled
about her ears in a unique way, H.
Hedge, decided, for he could not re
member having observed a similar
phenomnon before. She had a firm,
assured way of using her hands that
astonished him. They were quite as
capable of filing papers as they were
of punching a leather bag, in addition
to which they were exceptionally
well manicured.
Never a word passed about Tommy
Treadwell. The new secretary had
apparetly forgotten the matter in
the intense absorption of her work.
Alice made the initial discovery
the very first day. She was home
from school early, and, glancing in
at the library as she passed through
the hall, was rooted in her tracks by
the spectacle of Constance standing
at a file-case with her hands full of
papers. The efficiency man was nt
her elbow and was talking glibly
about something ;Alice could not
hear the words. It t*as the atten
tive, almost eager, attitude of Con
stance that chiefly amazed her.
Whatever Connie was doing, she
was doing willingly—and she was
taking orders!
The younger sister stole upstairs,
a prey to perplexity and foreboding.
What she had seen was beyond all
belief. It was such an inexplicable
thing that she did not even dare to
share the secret with Billy, far less
to mention the discovery to Con
stance. But it kept Alice awake for
at least an hour after she went to
bed.
Billy did not become aware of any
unusual development until the day
following. It was the middle of ihe
forenoon when he blundered into the
library, intending to make a final
plea for gasoline money. Constance
was sitting at the desk, and the effi
ciency man was pacing the floor
talking.
Billy halted and opened his mouth
involuntarily.
“And make a note of this,” H.
Hedge was saying. “To notify the
servants that hereafter all orders
for supplies, in excess of one dollar,
must be certified at the office before
being delivered to tradesmen.”
Constance nodded as she put it
down.
“Anything 1 can do for you
asked Hedge’ as he observed Billy.
“I—hum.”
“I didn’t understand. Repeat,
please.”
Billy coughed and stared at his
sister, who glanced up, evidently an
noyed at the interruption.
“What—what ar e you doing. Con
nie?” he blurted.
“Working.” she answered shortly,
“What are you doing?”
The question was disconcerting,
and Billy instinctively quailed under
it.
“Working?” he repeated dully.
“W-or-k-i-ng.” spelled Constance
coldly. “What was the last, Mr
Hedge?”
She smiled up at the ejficiency
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man and poised a ready pencil.
“Just a moment, Miss Brooke,” he
answered. Then, turning to Billy:
“Your sister ,as taken up her secre
tarial work in n most admirable
spirit. May I ask when you will as
sume you clerkship?”
The question was brutal, not be
cause it involved work, but for ihe
reason that it suggested comparison.
: A secretary may be a very important
! person. Presidents of the United
I States have secretaries, who are
j commonly more important that
.cabinet officers. If they were not,
| they would be abolished. A clerk
| may also be important, but the title
j lacks something. There is nothing
j robust or dignified about it. “Secre
tary Jones” is a personage, even if
he is colorless and insipid as .arm
j water. “Clerk Smith” is nobody,
j even if he is large, beefy, and bellig
jorent, with an intellect of suitable
' proportions.
l Billy Brooke winced at the clerk
ship, but he did not address himself
to the efficiency man.
"You mean to tell me. Connie, that
you are working?”
j “Certainly.”
I “You’ve—quit’’’’
“No; begun.”
“But—-Conn 2!”
I Billy found no consolation in the
eyes of his sister. They were cold
j and steady. It was obvious that she
was annoyed at the interruption.
“We are still on orders for sup
! plies.” she reminded H. Hedge. “Is
there something more under 'that
head?”
j Billy faced about and hurried from
| the room. He paused in the hall and
drew a deep breath. The Brooke
family was disgraced!
It did not add to the peace of
Billy’s mind to discover what he
suspected—that, by working, Con
' stance had regained her daily allow
! ance. His own was suspended, pend
| ing that time when he should decide
to assume his clerical duties. Thus
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funds, even though of limited size,
j while their brother remained penni
less.
Billy and Alice hesitated to speak
,what was in the mind of each, but
j one day the tacitly maintained wall
of reserve broke down, and they un
burdened their thoughts in a far for
mer of the gymnasium.
I (To Be Continued)
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