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Show estfid THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Here, Private Hargrove! lMarion Hargrove Pfl T TERNS sSEVYIMO e e S'S ? CIRCLE ? ASK ME ANOTHER s 7 A General Quiz W M.U IUVICI (RV former newspaper feature into the army of basic irme hi completion Fort Brags, N. C. He has Bed as cook and in addition of the funda-- ' to master some army training have resulted for him. ,3bie extra KP duty the finer points of 10 learned shooting the breeze. Dg and us become editor of a section these duties have p paper and away from a lecture series. is up the story, his sergeant lb KP for this ,im once more Hargrove is trying to explain. 1 I so FAK: Private Mxrtoe Z i CH PTER XIV int, for days I round up battery reporters. There too much or too little. re is too little, I have to at is needed. When there ich, I have to choose which horse-fo- r reporter is going to out. his copy leaving the Is up right chaplain he sergeant said. I have to edit all the copy, classified military intelli-- d take out all nasty cracks lergeants. Then I have to adlines for all the stories them in whatever space Then I must d for them. rything up Into pretty little rhis is tedious and nerve-iror- j hostoj B. k. chaplain Stic will give you ear," the sergeant said. give you only KP. Does you are saying relate to re talking about why you In the mess hall yesterday getting around to that, serin the day before the paper I have to go into Fayette-kee- p a careful watch over ters, to see that they dont :d Regiment news on the , Regiment page. If I am head-- 3 , they may even mix under notices church put Club Activities. It Is neces-- I be there. I feel lergeant coughed. Private Hargrove; 1 deeply I wouldnt think of put-o- n i.ze. KP wouldn't? I gasped eager- - r the sergeant interrupt, "As I was saying. I wouldnt putting you on KP if you committed a breach of eti-ifailing to RSVP the invl-Ifo- u didnt tell us you werent jr Or why. -- F peacefully at my the other morning when ame a knock on my elbow bright young voice shouted at me. I looked up into the cheerful, and unquenchably vous face of the boss daugh-s- s Sidney Winkel, age four. dozing ter it isnt nice to stick out your tongue. She emphasized her statement by paralyzing my wrist with her fist and sticking her tongue out at me. Lets have no unnecessary vibrations, McGee? said the Lieuthom-as- , looking up reproachfully over his Coffee is five cents the glasses. He beamed at her. She cup. beamed back at him. 1 have seven she boy friends, said, raising one forefinger delicately and rubbing the other against it in a highly jeering gesture. I have seven boy friends and youre not one of them and youre not anybodys boy friend. She hit me this time on the elbow and I made a horrible face at her. Who wants Myaaah, I said. to be your boy friend anyway? 1 wish you wouldnt blow smoke, she said. It makes me cough and its not nice to smoke anyway. Old cigarettes! I wearily crushed my last cigarette In the ash tray. Women, the eternal reformer, I sighed. It wasn't like this in the Old Army. Miss Sidney Winkel took off her sailor cap and arranged her big red hair ribbon. Youre a nasty old thing and youre not nice like Johnny and Tom and Lieutenant Meek and Captain Wilson and all my other After a boy friends," she said. pause she added, airily, And Major Long and Captain Quillen, too. Myaah, I sighed, wrinkling my nose more violently. Oh theres Johnny, she suddenly cried, "and hes going to take my She tripped off with picture and a bewitching smile for Bushemi and a running line of babble. l. "No punctuation, I said to Mul-vehil- It's a womans world, McGee, he said, reaching for another slice of toast. fit Get him away from me, Bushemi! roared Private Thomas Mulvehill. James Montgomery Hes got that gleam in his eye. Get him away! Youre just being difficult, I told him. Just sit down and relax. The Lieuthomas laid his enormous frame on the bunk and started slapping his knees in utter despair. What kind of deal are you trying to swindle this time? he asked. Lets be reasonable, Private Mulvehill, 1 said, patting him reassurAs you ingly on the shoulder. know, I am now working on Captain WinkeJs sympathies to get a furlough sometime in February , . . the first half of February." I know whats coming, he And I wont do itl I screamed. quarters Battery. Please be present or we will beat your head in." It was the day before my furlough, so I got the general drift. The vultures who were contributors to the furlough would probably stand around frowning and figure out some sort of budget for my vacation. I could picture the demons slashing away at my enjoyment. The meeting had an unexpectedly small attendance: Maury Sher, mess sergeant of Battery D of the Third and chairman of the ways and means committee of the Union; Bushemi, principal stockholder and president; and Private First Class Thomas James Montgomery Mulvehill, chaplain. SerPrivate Mulvehill beamed. geant Hart sends his regrets. He has a heavy heavy in Lillington. He is with us in spirit, though. Come in, drip," said Bushemi. Sergeant Sher got down to business. Ive got to hand it to you, son, he said. Gone through this much of the month and still havent tried to get any of your furlough money back from the chaplain! Were all proud of you. I blushed. Twernt Shucks, nothin. I was able to bum a cigarette here and there. McGee," said Mulvehill, clearing his throat, you leave tomorrow for New York, where there are many snares to trap the unwary. Dont buy any gold watches in the park or any stolen furs anywhere. You know, I presume, about buying the Brooklyn Bridge. 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You may go Now, as you know, furloughs are to the opera once If you sit downladen with little expenses neces- stairs and twice If you sit In the sary little expenses. To help me Famile Circle. You are not to buy along with the load, Sergeant Sher more than six theater tickets. and Private Bushemi have already In uniform, you can see all the made philanthropic little loans. I movies you want for two bits each. have your name on my honor roll "And be conservative in tipping here, Lieuthomas. Whats the do- the said Mulvehill, tapping waiters, nation? his glasses on the window sill. Very The Mulvehill cringed and edged e conservative. them, if What do you need from away. necessary. me? Tell him about the budget, said Well, I estimated, I should say with unnecessary impaBushemi, that ten dollars." tience. Great gods and refugee chilAs the matter stands on the furTen dollars he dren, he gasped. deal, said Sher, you owe lough says yet! Why dont you ask me for Bushemi 22 dollars, me 10, Mulveowes Six blood? dollars he lifes my hill 10, Hart 10. Thats 52 dollars. me already and now hes asking Counting the ten you'll wire Bushemi oh, I cant stand it! I cant stand for before the weeks over, its 62. it! Take him away! With what money we have taken he moaned. My lifes blood, from you and given to the chaplain Wheres the six I lent you two during the past few weeks, you months ago? should make out all right That was only five weeks ago, Must I be treated as a child? I reminded him gently, "and Ive I asked. already paid two of that back. When you get back broke, McThree weeks ago I paid it back. said Mulvehill, "you are not Gee, but you Yeah, he protested, to eat breakfast at the Service Club. borrowed it back the next day." He You are not to take out any post What rose and paced the floor. books. You will get your exchange are they doing to me? My life's from Sergeant Sher, who draw from cigarettes blood they would will ration them out to you as per x measly little my veins? Thirty-sidollars a month I make and he budget -- Up wants ten dollars! Maybe Fm Rockefeller I should lend out Sergeant Sher, Private Bushemi, dolten dollars a clip! Thirty-siand the other members of the Union of Hargroves Creditors would have lars, and he wants half! "You see, Lieuthomas, a sad and been quite pleased at the sight Inwork-worcreature an Alice stead of spending their money lavishwhose only hope for the fu- ly on taxicab sightseeing trips and ture is in the faint glimmering hope expensive shows, I was dining quietof a furlough. Day after day, week ly in a conservative grillroom with in and week out, I have worked my the Redhead. We werent even disd frail fingers to the shoulder blade to cussing ways to spend their make things pleasant for you and money. Bushemi and Bishop. I have patched Little man, she said, "will you your quarrels with the mess ser- please ask the waiter for more geant. I have saved you from the water? terrible wrath of provoked Rebels. he said, I beg your pardon, I have sat here at night, sewing butThere is a fifrather unctuously. tons on my blouse so that you teen million gallon shortage in wawouldnt have to wear it hanging ter at this very instant On the other open on your merry jaunts to town. hand, madame, all supply ships to Money could not pay for the things Great Britain use Scotch whisky as I have done for you and Bushemi. ballast for the return trip. Perhaps And now this. Ten dollars between madame would like a glass of Scotch me and spiritual starvation and no whisky?" ten dollars. How sharper than a The Redhead lifted an eyebrow. serpents tooth." I wonder, she said, what they Dont talk like that, Hargrove, bowls here rubhe said, his voice cracking. "Put use in the finger I do not want Scotch alcohol? bing ten. me down for -a- whisky. I want water." "It is as madame wishes," the In There was a little note stuck said, bowing from the knees. waiter I came when back my typewriter walked away and returned again He looked news. for It from prowling a post The Redlean to against Bushemi' like Private ("One-Shot- ) drummed her fingers on the head of stockholders The the typing. it tablecloth. Union of Hargroves Creditors, Dont be afraid of him, said the read, will hold a business meeting Call his bluff. in oclock seven about Redhead. this evening (TO BE CONTINUED! the latrine of Barracks No. 2, Head asSStjaarfaSts avi - Mmitj a a ainaai J SMLjKH Short-chang- reasonable, Pvt. Mulve-satAs yon know, I am on Capt. 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