Sunday, May 2, 2010 - I just took the money out of the till, and I held... |
| I just took the money out of the till, and I held over to the next day the Work Completed slips on three cars which had repairs totaling up to the three hundred bucksThose cars had gone out that afternoon, and I had to hold them over in the books so the receipts for that day on work completed and paid for wouldn't show a holeThen the next day I checked them out in the books and held over another three C's worth
"How long did ya do it for?" Brown asked
"For two whole weeks, how do ya like that? There was a couple of days when we only had a couple of cars being paid for, and I was sweating blood 'cause by the time I took out the three hundred there wasn't much leftOf course I carried over the receipts from the day before that I didn't credit, but there was so few cars it would have showed up kind of funny if anyone had looked at the books that day
"Well, how'd you get out of it?" Brown askedAfter we bought the furniture I took out chanel watch a loan for three hundred with that as security, and then I just slipped the three hundred back in a couple of days, and paid off the loan in monthly paymentsBut I had the furniture dirt-cheapAnd maybe it didn't make some good impression on peopleI never woulda had it, if I didn't take the chance
"That was pretty good," Brown admittedHe was impressed; this was a facet of Stanley about which he had been ignorant
"It took a lot to do it, I'll tell ya," Stanley saidHe was remembering the nights he had lain awake worrying during those two weeksHe had suffered from any number of fears which attacked him in the nightHis manipulations had become confused and impossible in the black hours of the morning; he would go over and over in his mind the changes he had made in the books and they would seem in error to him; he would become convinced he would be discovered the next dayHe would try to concentrate, and find himself repeating an chanel replica handbags addition in his mind over and over again"Eight plus thirty-five makeseight plus thirty-five makes three and carry one His stomach had become upset, and he could hardly eat any foodThere would be times when he woud lie sweating in his bed, completely conquered by despair and anxietyHe wondered that everyone did not know what he was doing
His love-making had sufferedHe had been just eighteen when he married a few weeks before, and in his inexperience he had been inept, incapable of controlling himselfHis love spasms had been quick and nervous; he had wept once or twice in his wife's arms at his failureHe had married so young because he was in love, but also because he had felt cocky and confidentPeople always told him that he looked old for his age, and he believed in gambling, in assuming burdens because he was confident of carrying themHe had bought the furniture for the same reason and, in his anxiety over that, the demands of his marriage cheap mulberry handbags had been overwhelming, and his failure in one had fed on his anxiety in the other
After he replaced the money, his love-making became a little more accomplished but he always lacked a necessary confidence in it; unconsciously he had longed for the days before his marriage when he had necked with his wife for long passionate hoursStanley, however, showed very little of this; he never told his wife just how the furniture was bought, and in their coupling he would feign great passion until he began to believe it himselfHe had passed on from the garage to an accountant's office, where he worked as a clerk while he studied accounting in night schoolHe learned other ways of making money, and he conceived their child deliberatelyHe had new money worries, and more nights when he lay motionless and perspiring in his bed trying to see the ceiling in the darknessBut in the morning he would always be confident and the chances would seem worth tiffany and co earrings the taking
"It takes a lot for a guy to do it," he said again to BrownThe memories were uncomfortable, and yet they furnished him a deep pride"If you want to get anywhere you got to know what the score is," he said
"Yeah, you got to know who to suck," Brown reminded him
"That's part of it," Stanley said coldlyBrown still had a few tools he could employ against him
Stanley gazed at the men sprawled on the beach, looking for a better answer to give BrownHe noticed Croft stalking along the edge of the beach, searching the jungle, and he watched him
"What's Croft up to?" he asked
"He probably saw something," Brown saidHe was getting to his feetAll about them the men in the platoon were beginning to stir like cattle turning their heads toward a new sound or smell
"Aaah, Croft is always looking for something," Stanley grunted
"There's something doing," Brown mumbled
Just then Croft fired a burst into the jungle and dropped to the cambon chanel handbag gro |
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