On the walls were faded posters for circuses that had passed by many years before, local elections that were long decided and, more troubling, sepia p...rints of women with voluminous petticoats and bare arms.Tizzy sipped her soda slowly. She could see from the clock just above the bar that she had at least an hour to wait. She studied a nearby poster for the circus, amused by the lurid descriptions of freaks, clowns and acrobats. The coloured woman at the other end of the bar lifted herself off. She was extremely popular with the lads who soon began calling her Charlie.We made love most nights too, either me and Cathy, me and Charlotte, or Cathy and Charlotte when I felt I needed a rest, then after about five months, the boss of the plant called and asked if he could drop in for a chat. We presumed it was about the renewal of the lad's contracts and that he was giving us notice that perhaps not all of them would be renewed, but I was a million miles out."I think you should buy another. She had tried to ignore the problem; ignore the solutions. Now the problems were different. She needed desperately to make enough money to keep the two of them in New York.Jenny had found a job as a waitress; at Guinevere's. It was a high end restaurant near the stadium. Lots of athletes came in during the off-season. She had plenty of propositions for all kinds of requests. Tips weren't coming in that well. The rent was due. Knowing what other girls her age had done when she was dancing, she. “Ward, you and Wade take your family and guests on home. He’ll find out what really happened in there and settle down after he cools off some,” Mayor Burt Bronson spoke to the Blasingame men, after pulling them away from the women in the buggy and the crowd that still lingered.“Mayor, we don’t have a vote in your town elections, but if we did, we’d not only vote against him, we’d campaign against him too. That man has taken his public position personally and caused a lot of friction among the.