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There's the mill where I work, now, fourteen hundred of us. The girls average from eighteen bob to a pound a week, men twenty-four to twenty-eight, foremen thirty-five to two pounds. It's not much of wages. The house rent's high in these parts, and food, too. The business has just been turned into a company capital three hundred thousand pounds, profits last year forty-two thousand.
Joe was substituting a basin of water for a small girl in the nearest kitchen chair, and a howl ensued. "Shut up, Lottie!" admonished Mrs. Ridder, "you ain't any too good to set on the floor. It's a good thing this is pay-day, Joe, for the rent's due and four of the children's got their feet on the ground. You paid up the grocery last week, didn't you!" Joe nodded a dripping head.
But if this was really Mr. rent's opinion, he was very much mistaken; for the other two honourable gentlemen were not only greater masters of the game, and somewhat soberer than poor Booth, having, with all the art in their power, evaded the bottle, but they had, moreover, another small advantage over their adversaries, both of them, by means of some certain private signs, previously agreed upon between them, being always acquainted with the principal cards in each other's hands.
"We're broke, and the rent's overdue," tersely explained Amarilly. "I'm broke, too," sighed the Boarder, "except what I've got in the savin's bank towards " "Lily Rose," suggested Amarilly softly. "Yes," he admitted, with a beaming look. "But when I go broke, all other things failin', I allers tackle a pawnbroker." "We ain't got nothin' to pawn," sighed Amarilly.
Tell that Landlord the rent's paid, I'll let him know when he's wanted. Hand over that pile of mended clothing and the pay envelope, mind it's the right amount all the rest of you, step aside!" Waving away a gay bonnet with a bird on it, a bottle marked "Patent Medicine," and the persistent pink stockings, the Sandman closed the mouth of Mrs.
But mother; the girls who don't have steady jobs do work by the hour, and that brings in more, on the whole. If they are the right kind they can make good. If they find anyone who don't keep her job for good reasons they can drop her." "M'm!" said Mrs. Bell. "Well, it's an interesting experiment. But how about you? So far you are $410 behind." "Yes, because my rent's so big.
"He's had typhoid and lost his job. The rent's due and they'll be turned out tomorrow. He's got a wife and two kids." Farnum asked questions briefly and pulled out his check book. "Tell Sobieski not to worry," he said as he handed over a check. "I'll send a reporter out there and we'll make an appeal through the World. Of course his own name won't be used. No one will know who it really is.
When the transaction was completed, William turned to Jonas. "I'll be here to the minute when the next rent's due," he said confidently, "and it'll be ever so much nicer for you to have it ready, else," and here he assumed what he believed to be the correct attitude for such an occasion, "I'll have to have you turned out." Then he left, the old man hurling curses at him until the door closed.
Though the latter would not have helped him much; for he could not make out ten pounds just then, were it to save his life. But Nutter only said 'The rent's not mine; I can't give it or lose it; and Sturk's not safe. Will you lend it? I can't. This brought Cluffe to reason. He had opened the business, like a jolly companion, in a generous, full-blooded way.
You know," she added, jocosely; "if you die, he'll marry Edith; and you wouldn't like that!" "No," Eleanor said, faintly, "I wouldn't like that." When a rather shaky Jacky was discharged from the hospital, Lily notified Maurice of his recovery and added that she had moved. My rent's higher, but there's a swell church on the next street.
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