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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
HE GOT THE JOB, BUT-
Everything depended upon Peggy.
The party was a great success-up Then Mr. Merrie,
If Eric Merrie approved of Peggy, until 11 o'clock. Otis would get the appointment.
of the the Cuban office Power company. everyone but Peggy.
to who had drunk no more cocktails than National anyone else present and who shouldn't, Otis was sure of therefore, be feeling any more gay, declared he'd like to climb the hill in
"You understand how important it back of the house and watch the moon is, don't you, Peggy. I've wanted this rise. job for a long while. It means
lot. You-you'll be nice Merrie?"
asked.
He said to-night the moon was a due to arrive at 11:21. to Mr.
Everybody stared at him in amaze- ment; and Otis, thinking quickly, was
un-
"Why must I see him?". Peggy on the point of laughingly suggest- ing that Mr. Merrie go to bed and "Why? Because we're engaged to sleep it off, when Peggy said
"That hill's no place to He's going expectedly: be married, that's why.
and watch the moon. There's a better one to be in town for three days, naturally I'll want to entertain him, down on the Sanborn road. You wait have him meet some of my friends. till I get into some comfortable clo- Especially," he added meaningly, "my thes and I'll show you.
Otis tried, without making a scene, future wife. I'll want him to know
that he need have no fears regard- to discourage Peggy. He didn't want ing our ability to maintain aer- Mr. Merrie to think that she was in social front as representatives of his the habit of acting so unladylike. He knew what she meant by "comfort- firm.'
" asked Peggy, "You mean,
her able clothes." He tried to give Mr. eyes glowing, "that if you are ap- Merrie the idea that she had had too pointed we'll be married and you'll much to drink. take me to Cuba to live?". Naturally," said Otis.
"Oh, let us have some fun," Merrie said. "By the way,
"Oh!" said Peggy. "Then important, isn't it? I'll be extra nice, going to marry and take to Otia. I'll buy some new clothes and with you?" everything!"
Mr. White-
it is head, is Miss Crichton the girl you're Cuba
Otis was on the point of saying yes. relief. Perhaps Then, like lightning, a thought cross- He set his lips firmly. he had been, a little hasty about pro- ed his mind.
Otis sighed with
By Meredith Scholl
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saw
mising to marry Peggy so soon, but "No," he said, "she's just an
and Then he turned that could be ironed out later-after friend."
He sup- Peggy standing in the doorway, star- he got the appointment. posed sometime he and Peggy would ing at him. He could have bitten his have to get married. Public opinion tongue off, because now she certainly They had grown would be justified in acting naturally. would force them. up together, their parents had been friends, and there had been an un- derstanding between them for years. Yet Otis would have preferred to let things drift along for quite years more.
clothes Otis approved of the new
For the first time Peggy bought. since he could remember she looked something more than casual. But he
He job." didn't see beyond the clothes. didn't see that it was the background Peggy's natural beauty gave the new clothes that made them stunning. He wasn't used to looking that far.
Otis waited in an agony of suspense for Mr. Merrie and Peggy to return.
ed the house. They
singing. He heard them long before they reach- They came into the living-room, laughing and happy and red-cheeked Mr. Merrie came from the cold. directly, up to Otis.
"Whitehead," he said, "you get-the
He
And stared. Otis gulped. suddenly he knew a pang of remorse. He had misjudged Peggy. She hadn't let him down. She was a good, sweet kid. He must tell her so, and ex- be much plain things, before he left for Cuba. Mr. Merrie proved to
Thank handsome than
Morrie. "That's fine, Mr. younger and more
When do we' leave?" either Otis or Peggy had anticipated. you.
air,
"We?" But there was a business-like
"You and--and me?"
of efficiency about him that pleased Otis greatly. A man who was effici- ent could see at once that Otis was going. suited to the Cuban post.
not
"Hol" said Mr. Merrie. "I'm
I've something important to attend to here." He glanced at Peggy. And Otis Otis won- smart 88 he
-
If Otis still entertained fears that Peggy smiled. Peggy might create an embarrassing dered if he was as situation, they were banished the first thought.
(Copyright, 1988, By The Associat- evening. The three of them sat in the
Old Whitehead ed Newspapers.) living-room of the house (Otis had inherited the place) and discussed Cuba and the new job in a very businesslike fashion: Peggy was sedate and eager and she kept big her mouth shut, which was a relief to Otis.
'Mr. Merrie didn't give his decision right away. He wanted, he said, to talk to two or three other
men
in
town first. Otis was frantic. He didn't know that anyone else in town was being considered. But he managed to and suppreh disappointment, urged Mr. Morris to attend. a party he was planning for the next oven- ing, Mr. Merrie said he'd be delighted.
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