Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1935, Page 24

REQUITAL By Frances Whitney Curtis. “YOU mesn I'm l T to check out, Betty?” Tom's voice was rough with emotion. Harsh lines tight- ened his mouth and etched his face with pain. Betty's eyes were sorry but deter- mined. “You see how it is, Tom, I wouldn't fit into your life now; I wouldn’t be happy without the things I've always had. — Tom didn't wait to hear more. “Good-by, Betty,” he said half au- dibly. Out on Eight- eenth street he re- flected bitterly: “She was willing to marry me when I had a good job and better prospects. When I'm down and out—" He tried to obliterate the rest of the thought in his mind. He'd never stop loving Betty, and that knowledge made him the more bitter. Long, disheartening days followed. Tom’s voice grew hoarse talking— arguing, pleading for a job. Nothing ahead, only endless miles of Wash- ington pavement to be trod; endless petitions, endless refusals. And the bitter memory of a lovely girl who could not tolerate bad luck! * ok K K THEN there was nothing left. The | Jast remaining dimes had stretched | as far as they would go. Tom stood, like any other ragged vagrant, before a restaurant window on Pennsylvania avenue, eating with his eyes what his| stomach could not have. “What's the matter, buddy? On the uppers?” A drawling voice broke through Tom's stupor, piercing his armor of pride like a sword. He looked sround resentfully at the peroxide blond who had paused beside him. Her face was hard and disillusioned. “I'll set you up to a meal if you like,” ventured the blond. She stemmed his refusal with, “I know how it is, you see. Been that way myself. Don't be a sap—come on.” She watched him with pleasure while he ate. Until that long-deferred | meal had been disposed of neither | spoke. The girl dispensed with formali- | ties. “My name's Mary Hall. What's yours?” she said. He told her. “Tom? That's a nice name,” she went on, talking very fast. *“Now look, Tom—you're down on your luck and I'm going to help you. No— don’t say anything, because I know what you'll say. This is no time for being proud.” ‘Tom bowed his head on the table. Bhe placed her hand on his arm. “Snap out of it, kid! In a month you'll be on your feet. I'm not much on respectability—'nice people’ would not have anything to do with me. But I manage to get along. And I ain't as bad as maybe you think from the looks of me.” She gestured toward her | too heavily made up face and eyes. | Tom smiled at her gratefully. | “Youre—youre & human being,” he #aid. “I haven't met one in a long while.” | She laughed to hide her embarrass- | ment. “Forget it, kid. Look! Where I live, near the Avenue, there’s a | She watched him with pleasure, room down the hall from mine. I N know the landlady B pretty well—she'll let you have it for practically noth- ing. Tl stake you till you get a job. You can pay me back whenever its convenient.” The days that followed were as weary and fruitless as those which had gone before— save that at night, after the day's dis- couragement, there was Mary to turn to. They’'d eat to- gether and she'd talk to him, make him forget his de- pendence, make him laugh and be gay. When he said good-night to her at her door, he could face the morrow with courage. Then the break came. Tom landed a job with an advertising firm—a good job that paid well. R R HE WORKED &ll day the first day he got the job, thinking always of the pleasure he'd have in telling Mary of Ris good fortune. And Betty —she'd welcome him back now! He had only to tell her all was well again. He wanted so badly to see Betty. He loved her still and would love her al- ways, he was sure. And yet— He yielded to the temptation to phone her. Her voice came over the wire very coolly at first. “How are you, Tom? Been mean- ing to look you up, but I've been so busy.” Busy! choked back the impulse to be angry. He wanted to see Betty again, to hold her in his arms. “Listen, Betty,” he said, * all right. I've got a job, and I want to see you. I love you, Betty— He heard her laugh gently, heard her say: “Why don't you come over tonight, Tom? I've missed you so!” Missed—? But he still loved her; he'd always love her. “I'll be over, Betty,” he said, “at 9 o'clock.” * % X% MARY was not in when he got beck to the rooming house. He waited in his room, pondering the| situation. It would be difficult to tell Mary—not about the job; she'd be| overjoyed about that. But about— about leaving. He heard her door close down the hall. She opened the door to his knock. “I've got my job, Mary,” he told her. She didn’t answer for a moment, only looked at him, half-smiling. Then she said: “I'm glad, Tom—terribly glad.” “It was all your doing, Mary. Il pay you back. And I'll never forget what you've done.” She shrugged. “Forget it, son,” she said with an almost successful laugh. “When will you be leaving?” “Tomorrow, I think. They gave me an advance on my pay.” She had lit a cigarette; her hand shook a little. “Maybe we can celebrate tonight. Could you give & girl some dinner? Or have you got a date?” "ram thought of Betty—thought of—= “Sure, I'll give you dinner,” he said. “Who would I have a date with?"” (Copyright, 1935.) Cleaning G. 0. P. Elephant I‘llnrrl.‘| SAN FRANCISCO (P)—Two en- | thusiastic “junior Republicans,” Miss | Gloria Kane and Dolores Montez, | sighed with relief when the job they | volunteered for fnally was completed. | ‘They cleaned an elephant so he'd be | presentable at & luncheon for Repre- | sentative Florence P. Kahn. ‘“He's neither a snake, trunk of a tree or a wall, as the blind men thought, but & whale of a job,” they chorused. 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Commissioner Allen sent forward new works projects having an esti- mated total cost of $526,629 which were designed to give work to 721 persons on relief. They were proposed yesterday by the District Works Proj- ects Board headed by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, deputy District works ad- ministrator. ‘The largest project was for grub- bing of trees, stumps and underbrush in line of public ts and alleys, and minor grading work, for employ- D. C, WEDNESDAY, inspection offices to direct such a study. This project would provide workers for the survey. Other projects proposed: Construction of playgrounds, drain- age, grading and sodding work at Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Glenn Dale, Md., 125 men, costing $72,697; Bureau of Standards investi- gation of commodities and survey of standards, 95 workers, $81,108; Voca~ tional Rehabilitation Service, educa- tional projects for disabled relief cli- ents, work for 34 persons, at $40,118. $33,800 for Clearing Land. 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