Suds In Your Eye by Mary Lasswell

Author:Mary Lasswell [Lasswell, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Authors Guild
Published: 2013-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

BACK at Noah’s Ark, Mrs. Feeley sat in her platform rocker and gazed straight ahead of her at the wall. She was still dazed by the perfidy of man. Anger was mixed with the hurt…anger at herself for having been taken in. She guessed the ignorant would always be prey for the unscrupulous. But three hundred and thirty-one dollars! And ten weeks to raise it! Joke’s over, she thought.

‘Remember that time when Miss Tinkham told your fortune?’ Mrs. Rasmussen’s voice broke through Mrs. Feeley’s brown study. She nodded.

‘Yeup, I do! Break out your crystal ball an’ see if it has any suggestions for gettin’ us outa this fix!’ she said, but her voice lacked its usual ring.

‘Ten weeks ain’t much time to raise that money, but we sure gotta pitch in an’ do it! Why, if it wasn’t for you, Mrs. Feeley, I’d be bogged down at my daughter’s till yet!’ Mrs. Rasmussen was staunchly appreciative of past benefits.

‘Let us not be dismayed: remember the motto of the Three Musketeers: “One for all, and all for one”! I’ll just look up my horoscope a minute and see if there isn’t a practical help or two there!’ Miss Tinkham picked up the chart and thumbed through it until she came to April.

‘Here it is: let’s see, now. Mrs. Feeley, you are Aquarius, aren’t you? That’s where you get those green fingers! Just listen: “Wednesday, April fifteenth; during the morning hours business and financial matters will be under mixed influences.”’

‘And you ain’t just sayin’ that!’ agreed the Lady with the Watering Pot.

‘“Some benefits may be received, but mark time in matters that do not go smoothly. Avoid impulsive actions that may cost you money,”’ the seeress continued. ‘“Keep cool if annoyed. You may benefit in connection with a legal document or other writing or through legal procedure. You may also benefit in connection with a journey.”’

‘Sure! That’s us down to the ground! We sure benefited by that document that come this morn-in’!’ she said bitterly.

‘Well, now,’ said Mrs. Rasmussen quietly. ‘In a way we did! ‘Spose you hadn’t found it out till there wasn’t even the ten weeks left. ‘Spose it had been sold already, an’ the policeman come up the walk with a dispossess in his hand an’ says, “You don’t live here any more!”’

‘Gawd! That’s sure the truth…an’ I never had the wits to see it!’ Mrs. Feeley’s eyes grew round. ‘Miss Tinkham, I’m sure obliged to you for that readin’.’

‘Think nothing of it, Mrs. Feeley. We are bound to work this thing out somehow. After all of us being so happy here sharing your lovely home, we’ll find a way!’ she said warmly.

‘What we gotta do is figger a budget,’ said Mrs. Rasmussen, ‘so we knows just how much we gotta raise each week to go over the top. Then we gotta pare down the house money…maybe we’ll even have to go without beer for a while.’

The three looked at each other pitifully. Of course, if it came to the supreme sacrifice…they supposed they could make it if they had to.

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