The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
7he N0cto1d Nntl4litohd By FAITH BALDWIN :.s ss,.:sss .:sss. ,,.
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 ting job if he didn't drink"
 Emily said, T think may be able to get him one. She told him all she had learned during her call.
 He went to the door with her, a th.n, shabby, immediately clean old man, very stopped in the shoulders. He said,
 When she's better - Mrs. Elster I mean-I think maybe Nellie = you remember my housekeeper- could find something for her to do here. Nothing very tiring of course. Sewing" he suggested vaguely, my buttons are always of and my shirts" He groaned. But Nellie's eyesight isn't of the best. She could come over morn ing with the little girl ... what's her name? Mary? Mary could make herself useful. And there's all the yard for her to play in. Of course if Elster finds a job, things will be less dificult for them.''
  TELEPHONING in for her next A calls Emily wrote them down, snapped her book shut, and then called the Silkenbloom Mills and asked for MT. Edgar. She reached his secretary and in a moment, Frank himself. She said,
 Its Emily, Frank, T."
 T don't believe it." he said f1atly. Then, with caution, You must want something"
 "Just a job"
 'T'll fire" He lowered his voice. Well, it's yours, up to the vice presidency What do you know about stockings?"
 She said, Nothing, dope. It's for a man." She explained, rapidly She said, If there could be a place for him = in some sort of clerical work. Frankly I've never seen him - he might not it in at all. But if you'd see him"
 Frank said, soothingly, Send him over. I'll be here until 4. I'll talk to him and then send him along with note to person. mel. This puts you in my debt, Emily"
 T know" she said. "and I don't much like it."
 You're honest enough" he said, laughing. Skip it. When am I going to see you? Suppose I come around tonight and report?" BETWEEN her next calls she D returned to the Elsters, with a leaf torn from her notebook upon which she had written Franks name. She found Mrs. Elster sleeping in the small bed- room and Mary sitting quietly in the kitchen by the window, her thin hands folded.
 The door opened and John Elster came in, walking as if he were in- tolerably weary. Emily with a pang of pity understood the look of in- tense relief which flooded the child's drawn face when she saw that he was himself - tired, but sober. She said warningly, Mothers asleep and this is the nurse Doctor Mann ering sent"
 Elster was a slight man, lined and haggard, but the eyes ht lifted to Emily were clear ane unhappy. He explained, sitting al the table, eating his dinner with. out appetite, that he had walked all morning, answering the men, wanted advertisements. But wher they asked him for references
 She had urged him to eat, while they talked. She said now, put ting the notebook slip on the table, If you'd go there this afternoon, MT. Elster,. I think there may be 8 chance. I can't promise anything. But MT. Edgar will do the best he can for you"
 He said, If he does, I'll be grateful to you, on my knees He added. Mary, I think heard your mother, will you go look al her, please?" When the child had gone silently from the stifline room, he asked slowly, Have you seen the doctor?"
 Emily nodded. 4
 Then he's told you-about us?' A dull flush rose under the thin skin. He said unsteadily, If get work I'll never touch the stun again. I swear it to you"
 Mary came tiptoeing back. She reported, She's still asleep,' anc looked from one to the other anxiously.
 Best thing in the world fon her." said Emily.
 Elster got to his feet. He was looking at the open shelves, bet. ter stocked than they had beer when he left in the morning. He asked with sudden harshness "Where'd all this stuff come from? Mary answered. worried, T don't know the, grocery boy said 6 lady had sent them after the nurse went, that was. They were paid for." she said in her grave little way.
 Emily found herself coloring She said, hastily:
 Please, I merely thought that We don't want charity" saic Elster, angrily.
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