Evening star., 1939-08-27

The map says four and half thousand
population. You can always cut that
quarter to allow for civic pride
They took the taxi to the single hotel, and
then Mack went to see Richards. The next
afternoon Mack and Jean moved into the
house. 1t was a tan stucco place OF three
rooms, on slope. The lawn was dead, two
climbing roses had developed into veritabe
trees, the cutbank from lawn to sidewalk was
sufing off in spots.
But made hit with Richards by taking
it instead of another for eight hundred more
that was lust the same except kept up. His
hobby is gardening - l soon found that out
- and he'll see this place improve day by
day. He lives four blocks down this same
street.
Jean smiled wryly. Still working the
angles, Mack
He made his slow handsome grin. why
not? If you're going to be saperoo you
might as we'll be good one
You said the other place was eight
hundred more - Do you mean we're ony'"s
this place."
'Sure. The mill has plan for employees.
It's practically the same as rent. And 1t
gives that solid touch
Sure" Jean admitted, tightness in her
throat. Its the smart thing to do
And so they made home. After Mack
soldered the greenbacks into long gal
vanized tin box, buried it in the back yard at
night and planted tree over the spot, she
told herself she'd forgotten all about that
She was married to the man she loved. This
was heaven, and that's all that counted
Mack, the smooth guy wore tin pants and
a hickory shirt, and carried lunch bucket
Jean wore bright house dresses. They got TO
know neighbors and would talk over fences
about snails and cuttings and mulches; ana
they got to dropping over to IONS ana
Edith's or to Bob's and Alice's for an even
ing, or to having them drop IN on Them
In the afternoons and Sundays they worked
around the yard, Jean in tioppy big nat
They had geranium bed, begonias edglng
the lawn. climbing nasturtiums against the
garage In the back they made little garden
with a bench and stOne-edged walk with
a row of iris by the stones. On each side OF
the walk was bed which Jean insisted must
be solid petunias.
I'VE might as we'll be smart about it.
Mack would say. grinning in his slow smooth
way. We'll be the best pair of saperoos that
ever happened" When he got transferred to
the plant office the next spring, he laughed
about beating the saperoos at their own game.
Listen, there's angles to this saperoo racket
the same as any other Sure, it's new game,
new rules - but listen, smart guy can get
along anywhere, see? -. You're having fun,
too, aren't you? mean, so long as you know
it isn't forever
"Of course, Mack love it. really love it."
Sure, 50 do IT, He winked. Because it's
the smart thing to do We'd be dumb to take
any chances at all with that stuff Listen,
when Chalk gets sprung - that stuff we got
buried out there, it'll be half ours. Plenty for
us the rest of our lives, as high as we want to
t1y And there1l be no risk at all. No strings.
Sure, the stuff's queer. but it's perfect.
Perfect ~
lean didn' like to think of that. She kept
telling herself there wds such thing as
perfect counterfeit bill.
And the way Chalk got the stuff, there's
no lines back" Mack mused fondly. Only
one other guy knew about it, and he's dead.
Perfect It's just fool luck l got In on it.
Chalk had everything ready. and then he got
picked up on that old burglary charge and