Artie was sick for pretty nearly a week and then he went iown to the office again. And now he had to wait for another rnonth to find out if the competition was going to take his )lans or maybe the plans of another firm. And in the end after all the waiting they took his plans.
They started building nearly right away and after about ;ix months the hotel was all really finished and there was to )e a big party for the opening of the hotel and Artie was to 5e there and he said I must come too and I must have a beautiFul evening dress and he gave me a hundred dollars to buy the things with. But I never bought a dress in my life and I 3idn't know what to get so Artie said all right he'd bring Alice Forster up on Saturday afternoon and she'd help me and go with me to buy everything I had to.
She was an awfully tall girl nearly as tall as Artie and Artie was very tall. And when she took her hat off her hair was fixed like a man's all smooth and back off her face and her ,ars only she wore earrings way down nearly to her shoulders. She had lots of lipstick on and she smoked cigarettes but Artie said that was the way all girls were now.