Her Name Was Charlie by Frank Jones

Author:Frank Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Frank Jones

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The following morning Charlie was putting on her overall, about to start work. There was no sign of Dot. As she pulled the overall on, she slid her hand inside the pocket and felt something. She took it out and it was the four pieces of Ted’s card. Surreptitiously glancing around to make sure there was no sign of an approaching Oberreichfueherin Dot, she placed the four pieces onto her workbench and arranged them like a jigsaw to read them, once again,

‘To the kind and honest lady. Thank you, for returning my wallet. Ted. xx’

She glanced at the phone number and smiled, mischievously. Should she? Shouldn’t she? Should she? No, it was none of her business. Besides, the card mightn’t have belonged to Dot. The kind and honest lady? It certainly wasn’t a description that hung comfortably on the Dot that she knew. Foul-mouthed, hostile bully – now that, she could have believed. She walked over and threw the pieces into the fresh crisp box, that she’d replaced yesterday. As she looked up, Rick came walking into the area. He looked concerned about something. ‘What’s the matter?’ she asked.

‘Have you not heard about Dot?’

‘What?’

‘Joan rang me, last night. That bastard beat her up again, that’s why she’s not in.

He laid into her, good style. If Joan hadn’t walked in, he might’ve killed her.’

Charlie’s stomach became twisted with shock and revulsion. She still hadn’t conquered the knack of liking Dot, but no woman deserves to be abused, physically or mentally. She became silent.

‘Charlie…?’

‘I’m going to visit her tonight,’ she said, determinedly. ‘Do you have her address?’

Rick told her Dot’s address.

‘Do you want to come with me…?’

‘No… I can’t… Not tonight.’

‘It won’t take long - just on the way home from work.’

‘No, I can’t, honest. I’ve got t’be somewhere, at five o’clock.’

‘Where?’ she inquired, tactlessly.

Rick felt like saying to her, ‘Mind your own bleedin business,’ but, Rick being Rick, he said, ‘The doctor.’

‘Again…? Rick, what’s wrong? Tell me…’

‘Just, tell Dot I’m thinkin about her, an… whatever…’ He began to walk away.

‘Rick… RICK…!’

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