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Show 183 and told them they'd stay in charge as long as they £i followed his rules and worked along with the people under them, if they did that he'd cut them all in on half of all the supplies they saved under his system, which he did, and the Marines were happy and gave all the credit to the officers who were supposed to be in charge of Red, so they were happy, and the guys who Red appointed were happy because they got some responsibility and made out like bandits, and the meals at the mess hall improved, especially lunch, and that made everybody happy, and Red, who checked up on each separate department once a week for a couple hours had a two hour day, four day week, so he was pretty happy too, in fact he spent almost all his time playing handball and horse shoes with Captain Chaplain Captain who got transferred to Hawaii too. XBttXxx*x^xx£xxxx*30Wu» xsxocgrxxxx There was even a bowling alley- Not only that, the weather was great. Helen couldn't get her job at the bank back when she returned to Erie. Frederick Carpenter Strong wasn't too bothered that she'd left the bank, and he wasn't too bothered by her wedding ring, though a little more bothered by hers than he was his own, and it certainly would have been convenient having her husband in the Pacific, possibly even dead, but that little baby in her belly bothered him. Couldn't have a pregnant woman on the job. That's the way it was at the factories too. Red sent his paycheck back and Helen got temporary ka work with a typing pool and before Helen got too pregnant to work Bush helped her rent the house and move to the special war housing for wives of soldiers built way over on the east edge of the city, by the railroad ixxxxxixxixxxxxxxixx tracks that ran from the docks downtown to the big factories like Hammermill and GE. Everything had a certain gray hue to it over there. The air had a different kind of xx stink everytime the wind changed. In the morning, everyday, Helen got up and washed the grime off the windows and panes outside her little apartment at the end of the long row of |