Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1937, Page 24

. cans and surveyed » morning light there . shabby unfortu- ,m‘;\\ DAILY SHORT STORY e BONUS WAS yet early when Henry #tepped from the § goorway of the shack he had con- structed from bits of packing crates and flattened tin his unkempt reflec- tion in the bit of cracked mirror he had salvaged from the city dump, & stone’s throw be- yond the “city of forgotten men.” In the early were already other {f nates huddled over small, smoky fires, either for warmth or cooking dubious breakfasts from scraps of food they had managed to salvage or beg. But this morning Henry had no eyes for the two score or more rude shelters like his own, or for the men who apathetically al- Jowed themselves to exist in them. He had some important business to attend to this day. He glanced across the river to the clock on the Daily Express tower and nodded to him- self in satisfaction. Eight o'clock. That would give him plenty of time to hurry down to the barber college and permit one of the students to shave him, gratis, and if he was lucky, receive a hair cut. His heart beat faster at the thought of what he would do next. The friendly clerk at the post office had informed him yesterday, when it had been too late to receive mail, that there was a Government letter waiting for him. Henry knew what that meant . . . his bonus check had finally come through! For the first time in almost five years, since he had lost his job and his savings, and had sent Martha home to her mother while he ulti- mately joined the “submerged tenth,” & ray of something very nearly ap- proaching hope stirred within him. He could start all over again, re- habilitate himself. Not go back to his former life, of course. That had all been determinedly forgotten the day he left Martha, a failure. * X kX 'ROM force of habit he thrust away from him the memory of what he had once been. A failure, & man who in five years could earn not quite enough to exist in a shack back of the city dump, had no right to aspire to the love of a woman like Martha. At the thin trickle issuing from the fire main on the corner he completed his sketchy cleaning operations and ran a piece of broken comb through his hair. Stretching his shoulders back from their accustomed slump, he started for the barber shop. ‘With a firm step, but with trepi- dation in his heart, he crossed the lofty marble foyer of the post office building and took his place in the Jong cue moving slowly past the gen- eral delivery window. What if he had been wrong in his guess? For some inexplicable reason, he still re- ceived advertising circulars. There had only been once or twice when there had been real mail for him. His pulses leaped when finally he “ reached the window. “I guess you'll \ % be riding around in a limousine now!” ‘The clerk reached behind him and withdrew an official looking envelope from a pigeonhole and placed it into Henry's trembling hand with a friendly grin. “But let me give you some advice,” he advised, “you had better put that in a bank. I've seen too many of the boys go haywire with a lot of PARKS LECTURE GIVEN Brightwood Home and School Association Hears H. L. Garrett. Harper L. Garrett of the National Park Service presented a “picture= lecture” on “Our National Parks” at & meeting of the Brightwood Home and School Association, held in the Brightwood School auditorium last night. Henry smiled and moved on. BY FRANK KEITH. ' money &t once.” Henry smiled and moved on. IDLY he won- dered if s poor derelict, being the sudden possessor of comparative {1 riches, could be much blamed for going mentally ber- serk. Too well he knew the despalr, the hardship and cynicism bred by the grimy, hope- less settlement over by the dump. Even he himself might « .. but nol The clerk was right. Better to place his only chance of regaining respecta- bility beyond the chance of tempta- tion engendered by its immediate presence. And so Henry ventured through the portals of the nearest banking house, lest he weaken. The clerk behind the grill in- spected minutely first the check Henry had offered him and then Henry himself. With a sense of the con- servatively eloquent grandeur rep- resented about him by chaste mar- ble and discreetly expensive paneling, Henry instinctively straightened his tie and settled his wrinkled coat more evenly. He could feel the clerk’s un- certainty about him. * ok ok ok "WE CAN'T honor this check un- til after it clears, sir.” Henry had half expected this. “We can give you a receipt for it, or you may open an account for a few days.” Henry nodded. “Perhaps that's the best way,” he conceded. After all, a few days more of waiting meant little. He had no where to go and nothing especially pressing to do. *“Where can I open an account?” “If you'll sign the check and the voucher and take it over to that girl at the booth in the foyer she’ll make out your passbook.” Henry took back his precious check, and just for the sheer pleasure of it read again the magic numerals, “$1,540.00” before with cramped, un- accustomed fingers he signed in all the necessary places. It just went to prove that sometimes good did come from evil after all. He had hated the war, and now that service was saving him from something almost as bad. With a new feeling of self-respect he surrendered the papers to the girl at the booth marked “new accounts.” * x * X “ A LL of it,” he instructed her with 8 new-found sense of being once more a person of some importance in the scheme of things. It was a strange and heady feeling to think that once more he was on the thresh- old of being able to hold his head up among men, to pick up anew some of the threads of his former re- spectability. He watched with intevest as the girl bent over the deposit slip she was writing out. Her fingers paused momentarily. “Could I interest you in & special sort of account?” she asked. He noted how pale her face was as she sat looking up at him. For a long moment he thought. “What sort do you mean?” he asked slowly. “Well, a joint account, for instance?” Henry nodded and watched happily as the girl neatly inscribed the book “Henry and Martha Dale” and handed it to him with a happy smile. 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