Show diene when irene got home from the airplane factory she was good and tired this was the hour after work and before dinner that she always looked forward to her private name for it was my sissy hour into it these days she packed all the lazy lay luxurious little things she loved loed things that thai used to take up a lot more than an hour of her peacetime peace time days she bat at down at the little des degli in her room you could tell quite quita a lot about irene from that desk the water glass filled with the small bouquet of flowers she sometimes bought on oil the way ay home the paperweight paper weight of pinh marble the thin crackly blue airmail air mail stationery stationer and the big framed photograph g of a young man in in a corporals uni uniform as good t looking a man as irene was waa pretty on the blotter pad lay the tel telegram gram that had come that morning just as she was leaving for work with those long well shaped fingers she reached for a sheet of 0 paper she nibbled the end of hex hei pen n for a bit and then she wrinkled ge d u up p her nose at the picture of the soldier and began to write dear mr but th corporals name was jackson round an and she called him pete her round handwriting spread across the page my boy friend is with the A EP in ireland he haa cabled me fifty dollars with which to buy a diamond ring ive been thinking it over and decided to buy a war bond to help sam instead this may help to bring brine my mv boy friend home soon er and then he can help me select m my ring slow slowly y she began to sign hez hei name irene I 1 letter from an actual communication ni in the flies files of the trees treas ury iry department lets all sacrifice as irene has hal done bring final victor victory closel with the money you put into into wax wai bonds make certain your family budget tops 10 per percent cent by nen nem years U S ay |