The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-12
Not cash? Not spending mon

ANO LII
I've got a horrible confession
too, Look-Pll get it off m,
chest. Comes last Tuesday and
borrow S35 from Mr.. Grace
party of the second part. Right?'
Putting on the touch, they
call it,"
$50 / puts on the touch, then
Know what il was for?"
Couldn't guess
Il was gambling my all on the
Whirlwinds TO beat Hank Prem
tiss. Hank needed to be dropped
back a step or two. Charlie Fleet
heard me boasting about Fred.
team and was nasty. Nasty! He
said, How about 500, ever
odds?' "
II gathered it was millions.
Grace, you're gullible. 1t wa:
500 of the prettiest little dollars
and didn't have them. So
raked and scraped among some
old tired, WORKOUT bank &C.
counts and l found nearly all OF
it. But | had to 60 borrowing
And that's how you got-what
is Untouched for that 35."
Seems a pretty long story
to tell me ! get my money back u
He looked down at his bare
hands which were gripping the
bench.
But wait l borrow money
from you. 1t is all for grudge
not for profit | win. So you get
Mr.. Shylock, not S35 but $40.
ought to mU1-S;e finances fol
more people. How will you have
it?"
You will perceive how the
quarrel started.
For he said, I'm not having
anN thanks.
II must be slow-witted. Any
WHAT"
Charity"
1t is to be judged, alas, that
Waxhaw, S. c.. spoke then. UP
out of that lonely, desolate word
sprouted pale shoots of envy and
pride and Illustration, of old
wounds to the soul caused, not
by the laughter and self-sure-
ness of more prosperous neigh
bors, but by their fuller bellies
Only the man who has known
hunger carries that bleak word
like a splinter in his heart.
Mitchell Grace! You're alb
solutely impossible" She said
that in rush, not of anger OF
annoyance, but of genuine as
tonishment.
He stared at the still water OF
the pool. You're not telling me
any particular news" he said.
She looked at him steadily
81 wish | could understand why
you behave like that she said
There are probably a good
many things you ought to under
stand
II grant you that"
And some that | would like
to understand. You waste your
time on a rounder and playboy
who is a little frayed at the
edges, like Henry Prentiss. You
keep a simpleton like Fred Wes'
hanging around with look like
lost calf. And when a phony
like our pal Vaughan Dunbar
shows himself on the scene :.
He shrugged his shoulders
with such violence that he seem
ed 10 be lifting weight.
She regarded him very quiet.
ly.
you seem to have other
plans for me.
Its very obvious you haven't
any of your own
She retreated behind frag-
ment of laughter. Il had al
least one, about 10 minutes ago
To have half an hour of fun
swimming
Il suppose it's my duty, now
to apologize to the boss daugh-
ter
She got up, and pulled down
the legs of her bathing trunks
and dived into the water, going
across the pool in long, silvery
rush, and drawing herself up on
the opposite side, and sitting
there with her legs dangling.
A manservant came down the
walk and said TO Mitchell Grace
that Colonel Merriwether wish
ed to see him. He put on his
robe and slippers and went into
the library and Colonel Merri-
wether watched him come to-
ward the desk.
Sorry I'm not dressed, said
Mitchell Grace. II can be
quickly"
perhaps il is not necessary"
as there something you wish
me TO do, sir?"
Colonel Merriwether looked al
him through those eyes which