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Somehow, looking into the blueness of his eyes and their entreaty for her affirmative, she did what you or I might have done. She half lied, regretting it while the words still smoked on her lips. "Why, yes, Gerald; I've held a fine position in Lichtig Brothers, New York importers. Those places sometimes pay as high as seventy-five a week.
That afternoon she presented herself to Lichtig. He was again as you would expect round-bellied, and wore his cigar up obliquely from one corner of his mouth. He engaged her immediately at an increase of five dollars a week, and as she was leaving with the promise to report at eight-thirty the next morning he pinched her cheek, she pulling away angrily. "None of that!"
I paid for that suit with my first month's savings. A little dark-blue Norfolk, Lichtig let me have out of stock for twenty-seven fifty." "Were they giving them away with a pound of tea?" "Honest, Kitty, it was neat. Little white shirt waist, tan shoes, and one of those slick little five-dollar sailors, and every cent paid out of my salary.
I sold two thousand five hundred dollars' worth of gowns the first week." "Sure enough?" "'Girl, old man Lichtig said to me the day I quit 'girl, he said, 'if ever you need this job again, comeback; it's waiting." "Fine chance!" "I've got the last twenty-five dollars I earned pinned away this minute in the pocket of the little dark-blue suit I wore to work.
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