The Australian woman's mirror

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NLq 059.4 AUS
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Sydney : The Bulletin Newspaper, 1924-
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Vol. 24 No. 24 (5 May 1948)
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THE AUSTRALIAN  

WOMAN'S MIRROR  

The Australian Woman’s Mirror,” Vol. 24 No. 24.  

Wednesday, May 5, 1948*  

3°  

AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY  

TWO OF Kind  

HOYCE looked at Eve with tragic, violet-grey eyes.  

broke,” she said.  

“I’m no good to you, Pet. So am I.”  

“So are all my friends!” wailed Joyce. “Well, all  

the ones really could touch without dying of con-  

fusion She gazed distractedly round the comfort-  

.n •* .T l:f rather eiraticMly furnished living-room of the  

small mty flat. And must have that lay-by frock for to-morrow  

night!  

Why to ‘ morrow ni § ht? ” asked practical,  

“It’s an angel, my own color. Violet, with divine touch of  

+w i-+*i tS wl hout thing wanted. saw it months ago in  

forme Sl ° Where Woman ’ love and kee things  

ve been paying it off whenever Dad did the right thing  

by me, and now only owe one single quid, and Dad’s away  

Lifting her agonised glance  

from the envelopes, she saw  

the wolf. He winked at her.  

° usekee ch£ should have come yesterday.  

surmnsp huft ° rgott f* P° st it-you know what he is-and  

mv SSft „ the da after to-morrow and I’ll have lost  

my great opportunity.  

;;Oh, come down to earth, Joy. What opportunity?”  

Myrtles party. You don’t know her. She’s lots older than  

fne nd of fne ds of Dad’s, and she’s been here, and she’s  

awfully nice, and she asked me to come to-morrow night and  

meet her young half-brother. The party’s to celebrate him coming  

into sort of slab of inheritance, think.”  

Joyce, you’re not gold-digging?”  

“Eve, how can you? Drat his inheritance! But the things  

Myrtles told me about him. must meet  

him, and must wear the violet and  

silver creation so that he’ll really notice  

me. Ive sort of hunch that he’s my  

destiny.”  

“You’re bats.”  

“Eve, he is so  

romantically adven-  

turous. He was an  

airman in the war  

and bailed out over  

the jungle; then he  

became chief of  

native village, but  

escaped* on raft,  

with his shirt for  

sail.  

“When he was  

in civvies he joined  

travelling show and  

did witch-doctor tricks;  

then he tried to find  

lost white woman up among  

the wild blacks, and found  

what may be goldmine  

instead.  

He got into the moving pic-  

ture business, hunted buffaloes  

for documentary, and started  

scnpt-wi itmg and now, when he gets this  

inheritance, he’s buying lugger and going  

UP worth to find locations and write great  

adventure story for the movies.  

“What man! What lovely life! That  

(Continued on page 12.)  

[Registered at the General Past Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for transmission by post as newspaper.]  

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