IT was in the leafy month of May that Bartholomew Bennington, bookkeeper for the Boston Bungalow-building Company, got a raise of ten dollars a week.
“Oh, joy!” exulted Bennington. “Now we shall have a car!”
Bennington figured this way:
“I am practically out of debt re damages to the apartment house, caused by that unfortunate shower-bath accident, and re my real-estate venture in the tropics. This ten a week will be clear velvet. I can tuck away the ten, and none the wiser..."
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