The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
CHAPTER xXXV

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 CARRIE cried, T have my jobl - Craftsman in a Hartford air. plane factory. I'm leaving this evening""
 When Dr. Planish saw her of on the train, he felt that it had been years ago that she, had gone, from him, and that he could not remember her face exactly.
 A week later Peony said, 1t seems so strange not to have her around. And yet, in way, I'm relieved. Young people today have no discipline. They think the worlds created to serve and please them! So they never can settle down to really serious work
 Peony herself was extremely settled down to serious work, for Winifred Homeward, her boss, was now doing a bi-weekly In- depreciation of the War News on the radio. Peony and she read the newspapers daily. AS there was lot of valuable news in the papers. so inevitably there was lot of valuable news in Winifred's broad casts, and after telling the far-hung what the far-flung had themselves already read in the papers several hours before Winifred revealed pantingly that the Japanese were now going to invade India or else they weren't maybe they were going to invade Siberia.
 So Peony received $35 every Fri day, and spent 50 of it every Satur- day, and began to explain to Dr. Planish just what the Japanese and India and Siberia were.
 The Doctor himself was also serious. With Sherry Belden and Otis Canary, he was preparing blue prints Chats what they called them) for new Marduc organiz- ation to be entitled 'The Citizens Postwar Reconstruction Advisory Planning Unit, Inc.'
 The Doctor suddenly had new burdens, for Sherry Belden came in, without warning, in uniform and he was decidedly impertinent before he went off to take train:
 Good luck to the Unit, Planish. I suppose you'll pussy foot just as successfully on freedom for h. dia, and freedom for the Negroes in America, as we did during the revolution in Spain. Good hedg- ing, Brother. I'll write you from Iseland or Dakar."
 Now was that nice? the Doctor asked himself.
 He could have taken months vacation, two months, whatever he wanted, and apparently no one would have cared, but Peony was a busy and important person who could take only one week, and that in late August, and he nerv- ously waited for her and he still had not said one word about becoming president of Kinnikin- ick.
 He told her on the Maine coast, on the sea-Washed rocks, by moonlight.
 Gosh, this certainly is beau- tiful, Peony the way the moon- light falls on that-the tide, sup pose you'd call it-don't you think it's beautiful, pet?"
 "Yes, I love Nature When you're on vacation, I mean. You're real happy here, aren't you, Gid"
 ''Yes, it's so nice and quiet. l don't somehow seem to sleep so well in the city. But I'm afraid it's been too quiet for you here. Hasn't it?'
 Well, God Almighty, figure it out for yourself! Whole tourist business shot to pieces by this gas rationing, and me with new wardrobe that would knock your eye out, and nobody to impress with it - not even hardly any dancing, except with college-boy walters! And fe can't even go see if the other resorts are better. I think it's an outrage you and I can't get more gas.'
 But we got to save gasoline for the Army
 "Oh, stuff! That's all very well for the common ordinary people that where the hell have they got to go to if they did have any gas, but people like us, that have been sweat ting our souls out on behalf of Democracy and the common people, and that have got the qualifications to appreciate scenery and had ought to get around and