Show A Place in the Sun Su a. I By Dy 9 K W. W BROOKS McClure McClur Newspaper Syndicate Features ON O N A golden Saturday afternoon Josie and Frank sat in the mid midd middle middle dle die of the living room floor in Josic's Josie's apartment looking very glum Josie's blonde curls were tangled She chewed the end of her pencil and looked at Frank with wide blue eyes Well WeB that's the story she said Youve spent all your salary s lary and Ive I've spent all mine on clothes and shows and snooty food for a whole year Frank rubbed his chin And we were supposed to be saving every every- everything everything e er thing so we could be married he said He stretched out on the floor and closed his eyes seem as if we spent much but there Isn't anything left Im I'm just a wastrel wast wast- wastrel wastrel rel a goodnick no-goodnick no and I haven't even ev n stuck with the jobs Five of em emin emin emin in one year yearl Maybe I wouldn't besuch be besuch besuch such a good husband for a charm charm- charming charming ing little peanut mind like you after all You know what Josie said after a moment If you bought a place outside of New York and lived in it alone and got a job near by I bet you'd settle down and work and keep up the payments I could come out weekends and hem curtains and plant flowers and we could be mar mar- married married married ried in just no time What you you don't dont don't seem to realize my pet Frank said is that people i mortgage houses and take fifteen or twenty years ears paying them t em off oft I We could find one Im I'm sure that I you could pay payoff payoff-or off or off or most of it anyway in less than two years I Josie argued Frank kissed her Oh honey you and your great ideas 1 O. O K So I do I it We still haven't any money it all goes into the house Get it stupid I Yes but weve we've got the house Josie pointed out and a garden And we wont won't be spending all our money on silly things I For you sweet Ill I'll give it a awhirl awhirl awhirl whirl Frank said We wont won't find finda a a house But if you insist well we'll try I Get your bonnet Well We'll start now Its It's Spring and a perfect day for real estate operations I Franks Frank's car cat was swift swill and ful It represented a lot of the money they the could have spent to better advantage antage Josie suggested the Parkway Then a whim seemed I Ito to strike her She suggested they turn turnoff turnoff turnoff off into a little village Theres abig a abig abig big refrigerator plant pla t here Frank she said I wrote a letter to the manager for my boss Lets Let's see if it theres there's a cottage A wonderful engineer en en- engineer engineer like you could get a job inthe in inthe inthe the plant in a minute They reached the outskirts of the I little town There set in a couple of acres of rolling land was an old farmhouse obviously empty and covered with trumpet vines Josie gave a little shriek of delight Oh Frank she cried it looks like us Stop at the next house darling so I Ican Ican Ican I can ask about it Frank stopped a amile amile amile mile down the road and started to get out No Frankie Josie pro pro- tested Let me go by myself Three cigarettes later Frank be be- began began began gan to worry Then he saw Josie come out of the house glowing A Atall Atall Atall tall elderly man was with her Frank Oh Frank It is our lucky day dayl she cried Mr Johnsons Johnson's the agent for the cottage and its it's for sale Mr Johnson my I hush I mean he will be Frank be-Frank Frank Lawson We can have it for two thousand and only two hundred down Pay the rest like rent Lets Let's all go look at it Frank bought the place and on Monday applied for a job in the re re- refrigerator refrigerator plant He got past the personnel man and into the man man- managers manager's managers manager's managers manager's agers ager's office That gave him all the confidence he needed He walked out with a week seventy job and moved into his new home Josie came out Saturdays Sometimes Some Some- Sometimes times she stayed all weekend sleep sleep- sleeping sleeping ing in the Johnsons Johnson's farmhouse Frank grew strong and brown He made regular payments on the house paid off the borrowed two hundred through Josie who said her boss had been happy to lend it and found that much sooner than he had expected the new home was almost three-quarters three paid for He got a raise and liked his job They were quietly married and the Johnsons threw rice at them as Frank carried his bride over the threshold Mr Johnson at a wink from Josie handed Frank a slip of paper It was his check for 1400 made out to Frank Lawson I I dont don't understand Frank stammered This is just what Ive I've paid you so far Mr Johnsons Johnson's eyes twinkled Exactly Ex Exactly he said You didn't have to buy the house It was yours already Or your wife's which is the same thing It Oh Oh Frankie Frankiel Isn't it fun Josie said bouncing My mother left it to me But I wanted to live in New York so I never did anything about bout it Ive I've known the Johnsons from way back I thought if you believed we were buying it wed we'd have money and the house and be married too You arent aren't angry are you yOU Frankie Frank laughing grabbed Josie turned her over his knee and and spanked her Anyway he said be be- between tween veen swats I got a good job for myself Josie squealed Frank Frankl Youre You're hurting me Sure you got a good job but honey my boss recommended you ou He owns the refrigerator plant Frank Frankl Oh golly Mrs Johnson make him stop slop |