| Show the fiction 0 J OB WANTED B jt t 0 o richord richard H 41 i kinson 1 corner TT T WAS SNOWING when guy started over the pass the filling station attendant at jackson had warned him against it but guy had only smiled crookedly it was 0 9 minute early may and 0 01 fiction snowstorms snow a n 0 w storms of any consequence happen in may not even in the high country besides the way he be felt it make much difference if anything did happen to him not even i it if he perished in the dots or fro froze ze to death death would i solve all his problems atwould it would be a relief from worry coiry and hopelessness and bleak despair de s p air foolish though thou gh for a young man mant 26 years old but young men can sometimes become pretty wilband wild wil dand and desperate desperate in their thoughts though ti guy remembered mr moores cynical smile sorry son we a place for you full up but not mot good reporters ive had expert a n a emr modrel albore im a goo good writer I 1 always scrape up a new angle to lo a story that makes in interesting t irest reading besides there was desperation in guys tone because bebau e 1 mr moore had begun began flis shuf shuffling j papers on his desk when I 1 wrote inquiring about a job you said be glad to talk to me he had bad driven all al the way up from denver 1000 miles because mr moore hadsall had said sald hed talk to him it had taken nearly his last dollar to buy enough gas to make the trip now ho he had nothing left but the 5 year old car about enough to get him back home from which hed held started out six months ago bound and determined to land a job on a newspaper toward noon guy understood why the filling station min man had warned him the snow formed an impenetrable wall the wind was 02 1 31 kt 74 iwaye he Ile half balf carried halt hall dragged the woman up to the back aback and left her there near mear the stove rising and it was colder ow ow he was stuck i 1 hours passed twice guy thought he heard someone call th third time he roused up through the slanting curtain of snow he saw a gure floundering rang toward towar achim him he ha hr go b out ut the man was nearly exhausted hau stid his face frost bitten guy g got 0 t him inside the car and 0 tur turned nedo online nahe heater full speeding up tip the motor presently the min man looked at him wild eyed my wife I 1 ashes sick were stuck up the road ouy guy thought quickly there was the shack apparently the a man had passed pa s sed it in the storm it must be close byj by at an any rae rac it WAS theler tbell only chance t abed AFTERWARD guy wondered how hed found foun dAhe the shack ort what it was that kepthik kept kep thim him going ewhen the desire to lie down and sleep and forget everything was so strong it was wasell all like dikea a dream the washed way hed stumbled stumble d against e shack itself found the door andrell and fell inside ho he remembered that athe the wind win and cold were shut out t then he remembered the tb esick sick woman the the place Ia behe hed d found was 4 a road I 1 camp there Therel was a stove andwood wood land anda a few cans of food bathel on the shelf he got a fire going and placed pla ced water on to boll boil then n he lunged out into linto the sto storm rm again fough this way down the rood road bd and found the strangers car he halt hall carr carried jed halt half dragged the woman up toabe to the shack and left her the there renear near the stoie stoe yelle alle hew be went elit for theroan theman the storm lasted two days it took another day for party to get through they took th the th three ree of them down Jackson to and to t 0 a hospital guy was put into a room by himself and fed then he went to sleep when he awoke mr moore was standing by his bed feeling better son good how about a story on your experiences that man you saved was senator the ile lady his afe at all see what I 1 mean you yon wanta want a job and we ve want A story because la Is on the opposition ticket heres your chance boy guy closed his eyes well why not he thought aft after er all a man has to live has to loo look k out tor for himself why not why not the the thought kepi pounding ills us braw bran then T ajeo he opened his eyes iso sorry rry W he said sorry that the kind of job im after |
