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Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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concluded, earnestly. "It isn't a funny situation; it's tragic."

"What do you wish me to do?" the girl inquired.

"It's a lot to ask, I know, but won't you help them buy the things
they need and save them from further humiliation at the hands of
these highbrow clerks and lowbrow customers? I--I want to punch
somebody in the nose."

"I was sure you did. That is what attracted my attention."

"You are a person of taste, if you will pardon a perfectly obvious
compliment from a total stranger, and they need such a woman's
guidance. But they need, even more, a little bit of feminine tact
and sympathy. Look!" He showed Gus Briskow's blank check. "The
whole store is theirs, if they wish it. Think what that ought to
mean to two poor starved creatures who have never owned enough
clothing to wad a shotgun."

"The girl is stunning. All she needs is the right sort of things
--"

Impulsively Gray seized the speaker's hand. "I _knew_ it!" he
cried. "I can choose gowns for her, but how can I tell her the
sort of--well, corsets she ought to wear? How can I select for her
things a bachelor is presumed to know nothing about? Haven't you
an hour or two in which to play Fairy Godmother?"

"I have all day," the young woman confessed. "I merely came in to
yearn over the pretty things."
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