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CASHIER’S CHECKS, That threw a sure enough scare into the old man. ‘ Well, go on, Mr. Ferdinand,” he said. “That man has been rebating,”’ the Frenchman hollered. ‘“‘ He gave his com- mission back to all of the men he sold cars to.” ‘““T never give any man my commission. Don’t you think I know that’s against the law,” O'Malley hollered back. “Please let Mr. Ferdinand finish what he has to say,” Bowling answered, pretty much scared by the accusation, as two companies before had lost their agencies for trying to get around some way of selling under the fixed price. “IT could have told you this,” went on Frenchy, ‘‘ before you handed over the money to him but I figured as long as he was quitting to-day he might as well get away with it. But when it comes to him staying here any longer and making it tougher for any one of us to sell a car, then I’m thinking of something besides the company. I thought it kind of funny that he could sell old man Cohn a car when I couldn’t, so I went up to the old man and asked him how he came to buy a car from O’Malley, a stranger, when he turned me down after knowing me all of my life. ‘I can’t tell you what he said to me’ the old man said ‘but if you'll sell me a car for six hundred and seventy-five dollars I can use another one now.’ ‘I can’t do that’ I said to him. ‘ Why, I could sell fifty cars a day if they would allow me to cut the fixed price.’ ‘ Well, that’s what he sold it to me for.’ Cohn came back, and Ill show you the check I gave him for six hundred and seventy five dollars.’ ” : ‘“ That’s not so,” I called at the French- man. Mr. O’Malley brought me a cashier’s check for seven hundred dollars for that le} 955 sale, Mr. Ferdinand. Mr. Cohn isn’t tellin’ you the truth.” “He is not, eh!” spouts the Frenchman. “Let me finish. Well, Cohn went into his safe and took out a bunch of canceled checks and showed me a canceled check made payable to the company for six hun- dred and seventy five dollars. We both look on the back and there’s nothing but a lot of red rubber bank stamps there. No signature. Cohn called up the bank and the teller told him that a man came in there and handed him this check and twenty five dollars in cash and asks for a seven hundred dollar cashier’s check made pay- - able to the Southern Motor Company. The payee was the same as the original check and the amount larger so the teller said there certainly couldn’t be any harm in granting his request. ‘ There was nothing wrong about it’ he said. I went to a few of the other people he sold cars to and I got the same explanation.” The old man stood there befuddled. * Don’t you see what he did?” went on the Frenchman. “ He just put twenty-five dollars to every sale. Now if that is not just the same as rebating, what is?” “That ain’t rebatin’,’ came back O'Malley. “ That twenty-five dollars is the money I earned in the garage. It came out of my own pocket, always, and if I’da worked there three days more I’da had fifty dollars and I could a gotten two seven hundred dollar checks for two six hundred and seventy-five dollar ones. All those twenty-five dollars comes out of this bonus, not out of my commission. Ten one hun- dred dollar bills in my pocket and none will fly away, chickadee, chickadee, happy and gay, chickadee, chickadee, fly away—” “Can you beat that,’ grunted the old man, as he tore down the bonus sign. U OUR THANKSGIVING NUMBER next week will serve a capital turkey story in ‘White Meat,” by Mr. and Mrs. Lisle Bell ; Simpson S. Nicol will tell “What Comes of Writing Letters,” while the general good humor will be added to by Jack Bechdolt with “ Base Gratitude.”’ As to the Novelette, that’s a seasonable football yarn, “‘ Get ‘Em While They’re Hot,” entertainingly told by Dean L. Heffernan. GOMIGDOOKSACO im