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If she can convince the girls that a er fixed idea in cut, color, and style is the thing to be adopted by shop-workers I am perfectly willing that they be convinced." Then to Annie, who appeared in answer to the buzzer, "Will you tell Sophy Kumpf to come here, please?" Mrs. Orton-Wells beamed. The somber plumes in her correct hat bobbed and dipped to Emma.
Emma, her hand still on Sophy's, elaborated: "Sophy Kumpf has been with the T. A. Buck Company for thirty years. She could run this business single-handed, if she had to. She knows any machine in the shop, can cut a pattern, keep books, run the entire plant if necessary. If there's anything about petticoats that Sophy doesn't know, it's because it hasn't been invented yet.
Emma presented the girl as formally as she had Sophy Kumpf. And Lily Bernstein smiled upon them, and her teeth were as white and even as one knew they would be before she smiled. Lily had taken off her shop-apron. Her gown was blue serge, cheap in quality, flawless as to cut and fit, and incredibly becoming. Above it, her vivid face glowed like a golden rose.
Emma took one of those calloused hands in hers. "Sophy, we need your advice. This is Mrs. Sophy Kumpf Mrs. Orton-Wells, Miss Susan H. Croft" Sophy threw her a keen glance; she knew that name "and Miss Orton-Wells." Of the four, Sophy was the most at ease. "Pleased to meet you," said Sophy Kumpf. The three bowed, but did not commit themselves.
So the shop and office at T. A. Buck's were bound together by many ties of affection and sympathy and loyalty; and these bonds were strongest where, at one end, they touched Emma McChesney Buck, and, at the other, faithful Sophy Kumpf. Each a triumphant example of Woman in Business. It was at this comfortable stage of Featherloom affairs that the Movement struck the T. A. Buck Company.
Otti took it, only half comprehending, but sure of its power. In a week, Otti's eyes were shadowless, her lips smiling, her pay-envelope bulging. But it was in Sophy Kumpf that the T. A. Buck Company best exemplified its policy. Sophy Kumpf had come to Buck's thirty years before, slim, pink-cheeked, brown-haired.
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