The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-02-27
Turn of a Worm
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By NAN GILBERT
Mcclure Syndicate-WNU Service.l

anu stopping. For tnlrteCh
years, as assistant to a bookkeel
er's assistant, he had received eac
Saturday seventeen dollars am
twenty-five cents The twenty-fv,
ents, the bookkeeper's assistant
cid him loftily, is matter OF
tradition"
Reggy suspected that it was, in
lead. matter of making the total
salaries come out even. Round
Numbers were passion with his
Ucss-a passion which finally cost
1eggy MS JOB. There were twenty
SIX employees in Baker and Com
rany; the urge to make it a round
twenty-five was eventually too
strong.
wouldn't mind so much.
:leggy mumbled glOomily TO his
EIrl friend that night, "if I'd ever
found out whether my salary rightly
mould have been seventy-five cents
core, or twenty-five cents less.
you should've gone right up and
odd that Mr. Baker. something.
Mabel fretted.
Jaw, Mabel" WINGED Reggy, I'll
ind another job. Wen get that
money saved yet for getting mar
rled. Though why we can't chance
q without :"
Mabel Shook her head firmly
No, Reginald Upper, well have
mat thousand safely banked, or l
won't stir step toward the altar.
The excavation for a new office
building was in process near his
room The following morning, Reg
Fy dallied pleasantly, watching the
fascinating antics of the automatic
shovel. Today, he noticed, the mild
gray horse that made its steady
rips back and forth from the up
looted clay, was idle. And the fore
man was Tuning
Hey" he said abruptly to Reg
gy, want job?"
The man was psychic! Il most
certainly do" Reggy answered.
We'll, think you can lead old
White for us till we get another
man? Just from here where |
hey load up over there where
they unload"
Absolutely" Reggy agreed, gal |
Joping to the waiting beast Only"
ne painted, I'D really prefer per-
nanent employment.
ok, OK" the foreman closed
me matter. If you do your work
al right. Forty cents an hour"
Forty cents an hour. Reginald
fgured busily as he led White back
and forth. Three twenty a day i
H,mm, nineteen twenty a week,
So rosy were his dreams that he
didn't notice at first the increasing
ache in his feet
How're you making Out?" the
foreman asked him.
"Oh. fine, fine Reggy assured
him automatically. Il just won't
turn up tomorrow, ne added to
himself.
But, limping past the cOnStruc-
ton office that evening, he heard
the foreman booming solicitously tc
The straw-boss, Kind and obliging
end all that, but feeble. Too feeble
At the end of the month, Wen have
IL turn i'm off"
His angry stride had carried him
10 his rooming house. There was
an open magazine on his landlady's
table, showing powerful gentle
man in an advanced state of I'm.
dress, bullying biceps that would
never, never be called feeble. Reg.
gy, looking closer, read the glarine
print, then, hypnotiZed, cut out the
little coupon In the corner.
His job grew easier. When the
foreman was near, he whistled OF
even burst into song, and otter
flexed his muscles absent-mindedly,
as if thinking of something else.
Just let him try to fire me-
Reggy muttered on Mabeps porch
one evening.
Whats that?" Mabel glared.
Il said" repeated Reggy louder.
his mind elsewhere. well settle
this here and now. You'll play my
way or we won't play at ALL"
Reginald" Mabel gasped. "Oh.
Reginald. don't talk like that. Don't,
even suggest leaving me. Oh Regit
nald, you're $3.50 masterful!
Reggy goggled-her head va:
suddenly on his shoulder.
His mood of triumph still with
him the next morning, Reggy strobe
INTO the construction Office. chin out
"Bivins," said Reggy sternly
well settle this, here and now"
What the so-and-so, d" the fore
man suffered, lis eating you, Tup-
pert?"
THAT kind and obliging stuff
Reggy reported stingingly Kind
and obliging but feeble, and has to
be laid of the end Of the month
Don't think l didn't hear you!"
But. Tuppert. the foremanl
Ssped. white is pretty feeble.
You ought to be glad he's getting
pensioned on.
White pensioned off," Req
sy echoed weakly.
Matter of fact, Tuppert," the
foreman confided Eenially, I'VE
rave a better job in mind for you.
were starting you next month as