"I wish more of my men customers felt like you," the banker laughed as the car drove away.
Ernestine plunged into the drizzle, and while the Sunshine Special was hurrying the old-fashioned woman westward to the golden slopes of California, with her pretty
"face that burned the topless towers of Ilium,"
the new woman plodded sturdily through the mucky Chicago streets on her way to the eternal Job.
Milly was settled at last, and, let us assume, "lived happily ever after."
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE HEALER
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