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CHAPTER VII - JOBLESS AGAIN.
From her father's works Elizabeth and Harriet drove to the shopping district,
where they strolled through a couple of shops and then stopped at one of the
larger stores.
Jimmy Torrance was arranging his stock, fully nine-tenths of which he could
have sworn he had just shown an elderly spinster who had taken at least half an
hour of his time and then left without making a purchase. His back was toward
his counter when his attention was attracted by a feminine voice asking if he was
busy. As he turned about he recognized her instantly--the girl for whom he had
changed a wheel a month before and who unconsciously had infused new
ambition into his blood and saved him, temporarily at least, from becoming a
quitter.
He noticed as he waited on her that she seemed to be appraising him very
carefully, and at times there was a slightly puzzled expression on her face, but
evidently she did not recognize him, and finally when she had concluded her
purchases he was disappointed that she paid for them in cash. He had rather
hoped that she would have them charged and sent, that he might learn her name
and address. And then she left, with Jimmy none the wiser concerning her other
than that her first name was Elizabeth and that she was even better-looking than
he recalled her to have been.
"And the girl with her!" exclaimed Jimmy mentally. "She was no slouch either.
They are the two best-looking girls I have seen in this town, notwithstanding the
fact that whether one likes Chicago or not he's got to admit that there are more
pretty girls here than in any other city in the country.
"I'm glad she didn't recognize me. Of course, I don't know her, and the chances
are that I never shall, but I should hate to have any one recognize me here, or
hereafter, as that young man at the stocking counter. Gad! but it's beastly that a
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