The Washington times., 1934-08-07

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Germ ania Turnverein Vor-
waerts, and on Monday morn
ing he always told her with
great enthusiasm about the
Sing-out they had had the night
before and how much he had
enjoyed it.
AS the weeks of the warm
and windy spring went by
Susan's spirit rose high. She
found a great satisfaction in
her ability to pay Anna seven
dollars a week for her room
and board and to put aside
three of her weekly twelve
into the Twenty-Fifth Street
Bank to help pay for the secre-
tarial course that she had set
her heart on so long ago. She
had made up her mind that as
soon as she had saved fifty
dollars she would start the
course and pay for the rest of
it as she went along, for she
intended to keep her position
at the Eagle Store until she
was ready to look for work in
an office.
One Saturday afternoon she
went down into the hot crowded
basement Of the store and
bought a spring hat to take
the place of the rusty old tur-
ban. It was little straw
beret, black and very shiny,
and it cost only a dollar. But
for Susan it was a crown of
victory because she had earned
the money for it herself!
CHAPTER xxx
One Saturday morning a spe-
cial delivery letter came from
Aunt Nell asking her to spend
Sunday at the Cullens'. It ar
rived just as Susan was leav-
ing the house and she tele-
phoned her aunt from the
store and told her that she
would have to work until ten
that night and would be too
tired to do anything the next
day but stay in bed. I'm not
used to these long hours yet,"
she explained, land I'll be dead
tomorrow"
And so things went until the
first of April.
Spring came early in 1881,
and it brought a certain beauty
even to Clay Street, which was
as ugly and unfriendly a street
as could be found anywhere,
ending, as it did, in a dark
red high board fence which
separated it from the railroad
tracks. Anna knocked on the
door and poked her yellow
head into the room.
Someone to see Miss Susan!"
she said, and beamed as if she
we're tremendously pleased be-
cause some of Susan'S friends
had come to see her at last.
She pushed the door back
against the wall and let Sara
and Mary Cullen into the sun
flooded room, Sara very smart
in what was plainly a brand
new spring suit of gray geor-
gette, and Mary in hunters
green crepe that made her
eyes resemble emeralds.
$50 this is where you've been
alternating, you'll" Mary came
straight across the room to
Susan and gave her a kiss that
smelled family of face powder.
What are you trying to do?
High-hat all of us CullenS?"
Mother says you've found a
job in a store. Selling music.
isn't it?"
That's what it is" Susan an
Swered. TITS not much of a job
but, even at that I don't believe
I could hold it if it weren't for
the nice old man that I work
for. You see, sometimes I'm sup
posed to play pieces of music for
people who come in to buy, and
I can't play very many of them.
So he does it for me-but I'm
saving money and pretty soon
I'll have enough to take a secre-
tarial course. Then watch my
Smoke!"
Mary raised her eyebrows.
you're too proud, I gather, to
borrow a little from your rela-
tives," she said, "who love you.
Susan, I wish you'd tell me why
you're living in hole like this
when you could have a decent
place at our house and when
you know we want you to be
there. Her eyes went slowly
around the room, missing moth
ing from the crack across the
dressing table mirror to the
large paper calendar that hung
on the wall beside the door.
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