Show im 4 maart margaret turned off the humming vacuum cleaner and straightened the slipcovers slip covers of the armchair and the daybed that hat she had pushed up to go over the rug then she stood quite still in the doorway and looked at the small bedroom with its southern exposure it was as neat and impersonal as a pin it might never have been lived in the door stood open on the clean bare closet there was not a pennant not a team picture not even so much as an old left to show whose room it had once been margaret stared a at t the walls the furniture and I 1 deeply slowly she realized that no matter what lodgers with their own trinkets and pictures might occupy it she wo would uld always see it the old way it was the old way that she saw it now A pair of hard worn gray pants lay la on the floor where they had been cropped dropped three baseball bats were stacked with a fishing rod in the corner A battered red cap with a letter on it lay on the bed and through the bed as though it were transparent margaret saw another bed smaller and with high slatted sides she put the vacuum cleaner away and went down to her desk in the I 1 sitting room she took the fifteen dollars rent that the new lodger had paid that morning in advance for the room and added to it from her purse three dollars and seventy five cents more then she drew out a sheet of paper and began to write on it slowly gravely to buy a bond to help train a young man to replace don jr killed on june ath in the battle of midway letter irom from in an actual communication in the files of the treasury department help our boys make blake certain the wage earner of the family joins a payroll savings plan and tops that 10 by new years U S treasury |