Dolls and Dues by Orrie Hitt

Author:Orrie Hitt [Hitt, Orrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4405-3973-2
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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WE POSTPONED the announcement of our wedding until after the union convention.

“Not that it would have anything to do with it,” I said to Beverly, “but there’s no use getting them all excited about my marrying the daughter of the president of Great Northern. Both you and I know that it isn’t going to stand in the way of the job I’ve got to do, but some of them might not understand that.”

We didn’t even tell her parents and, as far as I knew, she hadn’t as much as hinted to them that we were seeing each other every chance we had.

“Daddy’s funny,” she told me. “He hates this union thing and he might raise the roof. After we’re married, what can he say?”

She was a good sport, all the way through. Sometimes we went to my hotel room or, when I could get away, we drove up to Watertown and stayed at a motel. I began to see, though, that I would have to take a larger salary from the union. Not only did my work and expenses warrant it, but Beverly was accustomed to living high off the hog. Not that I blamed her for it; I didn’t. She was entitled to the best and I intended to see that she lacked for nothing.

One afternoon, when I drove her downtown for lunch, we spotted a vacant apartment on River Drive. We went in and looked at it. The rent was two-fifty a month. I gave the rental agent a check for the first month’s rent.

The growth of the union during this period was both gratifying and steady. On the day before the convention we went over the ten thousand mark. Some of the trade magazines had written articles about us and a top national weekly had offered me a substantial sum for a story about myself. I had rejected the offer on the grounds that I had not, as yet, blown my horn. My basic reason was that I did not wish to discuss our organizational methods, since to have talked about these would have been inviting questions about our girls. Sandy still maintained that everything was legitimate but I had noticed some of the girls driving new convertibles. And none of the girls could have afforded these cars on what I paid. They had to pick it up on the flat of their backs.

“They’ll be able to buy yachts after the convention,” Lucy said. “You see if they don’t.”

“As long as everything goes all right,” I wanted to know, “why should we cry?”

The house was now much too crowded and Lucy agreed with me that we should look for space in the downtown section. I found a floor in the Chemical Trust Building and liked the layout of the offices. Not only that, but it was a rich-sounding address. The rent was five bills a month. I took it.

We moved into the new offices the day before the convention and it was during this period that I noticed how big a change had come over Lucy.

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