The Midnight Cool by Lydia Peelle

Author:Lydia Peelle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Money Matters

Money Matters

by Leland Hatcher

The Richfield Gazette

I send my holiday greetings to you from afar, dear Richfield, and all the best for a prosperous 1917. And I keep this week’s column short, for as we welcome in the New Year, I know as well as any man that there are only two questions on people’s minds:

War or no war? And how high can prices go?

Money

Bristol

Billy makes a little money working at Harkleroad’s Livery Stable, enough to pay for his room and all the trifles for Maura: the chocolate and peppermints, the bottles of cheap perfume, hair combs of imitation tortoiseshell, sprays of artificial violets and lilacs for her hat, cards printed with cherubs and hearts that he buys from the drugstore on the corner of Main and Fifth. These things do add up.

Harkleroad is convinced the bicycles are going to run him out of business. Billy helps him paint a sign, which he puts out in front of the stable door.

come on fellas—take her for a sunday carriage ride—her skirts won’t get muddy—her legs won’t get tired—you’ll be cozy side by side

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