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r z3sq i m wfi ix fcya l i a swl- an i imoaapay smx at i3a the acton free gftess b 4fiiaai ftp 3tor fraa fnrt tnrg soft soapand hard henry oarleton that basket of greenajndwhlte striped boxes and to heat the gratifying jihgle of silver in his pocket he was happy to know that a part of the money would go to help him enter college at the end of the summer the two came to the town that was billys home pair week was in progress and all the county was on hand for the big gala event of the season it wns iatime for pleasures denied during the short busy time of summer a period for the ex changing of gossip and the exhibiting of largest pumpkins and tallest stalks of corn the time was early september and in three weeks billy would be enter ing tcohege on the evening of their arrival the night before the opening of the fair billy was walking with ruth the girl who had been bis ohum since mud pies and climbing tree days he had missed her and had been lonely in spite of the almost alpsufficient companionship of his new friend together they met the professor he greeted them lightly then when introductions were over he said cheerfully well my boy its me for a bed in the truck this week the hotel seems to be filled it is billy lookedthoughtful you could come home with me he said after a moment but we have company ana there isnt room ita sorry oh ill manage laughed the pro fessor it wont be the first time ruth touched her companions arm theres an extra room at our house she suggested the boys faced lighted just the tiling ruths mother has a boarding house you see so the professor was taken care of the fair opened on tuesday morning and billy was so busy with the professor that it was not until wednesday night that he again saw ruth when he did meet her she only glanced at him coldly and passed on without speaking hurt almost stunned by the unexpected slight billy ran after her ruth he pleaded whats the matter why dont you speak to me what have i done what have you done do you need fbe professor harangued the gap tng crowd sliver words honey ed words smooth forceful and delightful words poured from a mouth set in a- quite enormously pink sound and smiling face the professor was a mosfingenious man this soap shouted the orator is absolutely and pos1tively the greatest development of modern science a cake should be in every home no dozens jf cakes should be in every home his voice rumbled pleasantly and as lie wanned to the subject nearest his heart he launched into that form of expression which is typically american the nyperbole this soap he declared is good for cuts and bruises it cures warts hay fever and mean dispositions then he smiled hugely and his audience knew that he was joking back in the balfllghted depths of the big greenandwhlte striped body of the motor truck billy young smiled with appreciative glee he was filling a bas ket iwith lijttle greenandwhjite striped boxes containing the- soap whose virtues ware-being- extolled by the professor on the platform outside the professor was telling a funny story and it was a new one billy suspected that each was in- tented for the occasion for a story was seldom told twice land now concluded the professor the young assistant attendant of the temple of cleanliness servitor to the high priest of that which lsnextto godliness will pass among you with packages of this essential to good health good man ners and good nature this was billys cue to emerge with bis basket hor a few minutes selling was brisk and the boys pockets jingled with quar ters as the visitors to the county crowded about him still under the spell of the silvertongued speakers magic step a little closer folks urged the professor as some were still a little reluctant to buy i want to show you what fine clear durable suds this super- soap will make cold water warm water soft water hard water it is all the same to kleenzit he produced the incom parable suds in a huge snowy pile and btew greatglistening bubbles seel- to ask that he turnedaway sadly exulted the demonstrator lven the wind does not blow them away have you ever seen such beautiful suds no o had it seemed and b supply ofgxeenandwhlte striped cubes grew smaller no one knew that the durability of the suds and the bubbles was r to a few drops of glycerin mixed trtth thewater thafwas the prolessorv secret again there was evident a certain re luctance to buy and again the profes sor was inspired selecting another wt h hit o n nt1ri rhpnmri iv it with gusto ttt is even edfble he proclaimed if you run out of bread eat kleenzit it is healthful internally as well as externally it will make the thin fat and the fat thin to this last demonstration billy was as attentive as any of the others it was something new later he protested supposing they do try to eat it and the professor answered airily oh it wont hurt thoai aside from making them somewhat nauseated h-said-billyi-relievedr- was just wondering billy liked the young professor who unlike so many soapvending fakrs was really entitled to thedistinction pro fessor joseph hoefelmeyer held the chair of industrial chemistry at inland university his soap selling was his summer diversion and it was highly profitable billy had thought hmself fortunate when professor hoefelmeyer had offered to help him earn the money with which to enter college in the fall i invented the soap the professor had told the boy and it is really an improvement over any other on the market just now how ever i can t afford to make it in sufficient quantity to market it in competition with that made by the big manufacturers though at twentyfive cents a cake there s a good profit for me and its a relief from teaching classes the professor was a round little man with a merrjeface and twinkling eyes his sdber attitude of dignity seemed strangely out of place but this dropped from him when once he was on the road with billy and the greenandwhlte striped truck call me professor when customers are around he told his com panion other times im joe there was an irresistable charm to the nomadic life a charm intensified for billy by the delightful personality of his employer who was a clever student of human nature he taught the boy many lessons he could never hope to learn in schools there was too an element of mystery which gave added zest to the summer adventure for each day the professor would seclude himself to make his soap the process is a secret he explained i dont want to expose you to the temp tation of learning it so billy contented himself with wandering about a new town each day while professor hoefel meyer made the soap any soap maker eduld analyze this and learn the ingredi ents the professor told billy at an other time the process is the secret in the pleasant companionship of the delightful professor hoefelmeyer billy l spent as he termed it his happiest of summers it was exhilarating to empty and would have walked on i certainly have no idea what youre talking about dm wit levol g hoc been tellhv her anger seemed to melt away but she spoke with a sort of tired tenderness blly she said i know how badly you want to go to college bu la it necessary to be dishonest lu getltho dishonest what do you mean surely you know perhaps you ve ex cused ypurself in some way but really what youve been doing well it s noth- ingshortofdishonest billy stood aghast at her words then he smiled dont be silly ruth he said though scarcely comprehending certainly there s nothing dishonest in sellng soap the professor invented it and he makes it himself i cant see anything wrong in that and its good soap with a weary hurt look the girl took bis arm yes its good soap sttie ad mitted but come with me ive some thing to show you billy followed iher to her own home and she led him to the shed back of the house vlook there she command ed pointing to a pile of empty boxes yes its good soap she said ironically isoap soxes but they were not green and white ones your professor was out here all this morning continued ruth melting up that soap and putting it into new models didnt you know that no i didnt know then forgive me but you do know now what are you going to do im going to find him with ruths dramatic exposure of the profesors duplicity all of billys plans crumbled their very foundations torn from under them gone was his hope of college gone was everything for which he had been working for pf course could not go on now he found the professor still at the fair grounds so youve fooled me all summer bill said with a low voice when they were together in the greenandwhlte striped car youve made me no better than the shell game men the crooks and you said you loathed em why you youre no better than any of them the professor listened carefully thought for a while and then smiled slowly billy he said quietly youre excited about something what is it soap the word burst from the boy with all the suddenly loosed vehe mence of his pentup wrath lah yessald the professor in a smooth volte seemingly undisturbed by the unexplained anger quite right it is soap isnt it he waved his hand gaily t the pile of greenandwhlte cakes at his back kleenzit best soap in the world greatest boon to mankind all that sort of thing superlatively good for man or djeast seehere interrupted billy i did not come down to hear you tell about greenandwhlte soap im here to tell you that im through with it and through with you and that in the morn ing ill give back gyery cent ive taken from you i cant use it thats all the professor regarded him with mild surprise and a flash of something al most like quiet amusement crossed his round face better keep the money he advised youll need it but not so badly that i have to get it like the shell game operators do to speak in this way was an effort for billy knew he was throwing away his chance of college fo another year it would take months to earn as much money as he had made in the few weeks of sum mer then too he liked the professor and it was hard to say airhefelf was necessary- the other smiled dlsarmlngly am i that bad or is it just that some one ildiit eat basl our soap come now what is it billy rose to his feet trembling ner vously he wished the interview were j he should be wrong butdressed and w manner of conflden no he couldnttie ruthhart told hi and he had seen the empty boxes too if additonal proof were needed do you think he demanded slowly that id have kept on with you if i had known you were melting up somebody elses soap and making two twentyfive cent cakes out of every nickel one in his words were all the bitterness and con tempt that was in his heart and the older man seemed to shrink visibly under his accusing gaze a look of contrition passed over the smiling face when the professor found words to reply there was none of the old gaiety in his voice he spoke in a low tone which quivered and trembled over his answer im sorry billy boy he faltered i shouldnt have done it worse still i shouldnt have dragged you in it you lied to me no billy i didnt lie to you i simply didnt tell you2 we started out i was making my own soap and really it was better than any but the most ex pensive on the market well one day i couldnt get the ingredients i needed so i just went out and bought a lot of this other- soap its good too incidentally and melted it up and with my own color ing and perfumes and sold it as my own he stopped to look at billy ap- peallngly asa small boy who has been whipped and the profit was enormous was billys cold accusation yes it was pretty big when i saw how much there was in it i didnt have the moral courage to go back to the old way with its little margin of profit so you dragged me into it i know i know i should have told you at first i suppose but i liked you and wanted you to have the money you are a good salesman too you know so i let ltto on thinking maybe you would never find out well i- found out and im through i cant go on with it no no the professor started rummaging in the lockers under the little laboratory table after much nervous fumbling he said billy ill make you a proposition and i hope youll accept for perhaps it will help to make up for what you seem determined to throw away now we have nearly three weeks left you stick with me and ill start making my own soap again well work for all there is in it and sell as much as we can then if you havent enough for your share on a fiftyfifty basis til lend you whatever you need to start school ill do it replied billy instantly the professor lighted the burners under the melting pot well get out a batch tonight he said then well be oil ready lor- tomorrow you stay here and help fiftyfifty from now on until nearly morning the two worked in the dimlylighted car amid the pun gent almost sickening odor of the cook ing soap when they had finished there was a huge pile of the little cakes all wrapped and staoked ready for selling there was more soap than they had ever sold in any- one day zowle exulted blly well sell every last scrap of it par from being tired the two started their work with a zest and a spirit that surpassed even the fervent enthusiasm of former days never bef had theyoung professor been so eloquently convincing never before had billy- smiled and talked with such engaging ingenuousness as he went among the crowds with his huge er in the crowd that afternoon was a dis concerting presence however that presence was a tall gray man well ire air o he watched billy and the professor closely listening intenely to every word of the professor and buying a cake of joajxrombillyevery tlme-he-approach- ed with his basket as the day wore on and the gray man was still in the crowd billy noticed that the professor regarded his best customer with anxious eyes when during a lull as the crowd moved away to watch the free acts in front of the grandstand billy voiced hlsguestlanthe professor answered that s ashley and who is ashley i you dont jmow you should hes the biggest soap manufacturer in the world and weve been selling his stuff almost all summer lucky we quit when we did then i wouldnt be surprised the profes sor admitted drily the next turn in events was not alto gether unexpected perhaps but all the same billy was somewhat surprised to find when he reached the fair grounds that the profassor and mr ashley were absorbed in conversation come here the r called as billy approached youll be lnterested this mr ashley this is mr young mr ashleyls kindly eyes twinkled best salesmanive seen for a long time laughed the man and now we can talk business any time agreed the professor billy started away no now that ydure here you stay ordered the professor mr ashleys time is more valuable than yours he cant afford to wait for you the great manufacturer chuckled to himself as at some huge joke then he said im ready to make my proposition professor hoefelmeyer its this id like to manufacture your soap i can give you a roalty of two cents on every cake sold and that incidentally is a very large royalty for we will sell a great deal of it you soap ls better than anything our chemists have been able to develop and we will beale to market it as a high grade toilet soap at a moderately high price the latter to depend largely upon production costs what do you think about it professor hoefelmeyer thought for a moment and made some calculations on the back of an envelope im ready o sign a contract to that effect he an nounced if if what why if my partner is agreeable i see and what do you say mr ashley turned inquiringly to billy me ofcourse fiftyfifty said the pro fessor but i havent anything to do with a thing like this that fiftyfifty proposi tion was just well just for the rest of our summer wasnt it it was fiftyfifty for the whole shoot ing match explained the professor anyway if it hadnt been for you we wouldnt have been here now but for you we we wed be somewhere else by this time i imagine bllhy grlnnej xjreen and white stripes maybe not green 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