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THE AUSTRALIAN
Fix this textWOMAN'S MIRROR
Fix this textThe Australian Woman’s Mirror,” Vol. 24 No. 24.
Fix this textWednesday, May 5, 1948*
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Fix this textAUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY
Fix this textTWO OF a Kind
Fix this textHOYCE looked at Eve with tragic, violet-grey eyes.
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Fix this text“I’m no good to you, Pet. So am I.”
Fix this text“So are all my friends!” wailed Joyce. “Well, all
Fix this textthe ones I really could touch without dying of con-
Fix this textfusion She gazed distractedly round the comfort-
Fix this textc .n •* n .T A l:f , rather eiraticMly furnished living-room of the
Fix this textsmall mty flat. And I must have that lay-by frock for to-morrow
Fix this textnight!
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Fix this text“It’s an angel, my own color. Violet, with a divine touch of
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Fix this text1 ve been paying it off whenever Dad did the right thing
Fix this textby me, and now I only owe one single quid, and Dad’s away
Fix this textLifting her agonised glance
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Fix this textI surmnsp huft f ° rgott f* P° st r it-you know what he is-and
Fix this textmv SSft „ the da y after to-morrow and I’ll have lost
Fix this textmy great opportunity.
Fix this text;;Oh, come down to earth, Joy. What opportunity?”
Fix this textMyrtles party. You don’t know her. She’s lots older than
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Fix this textawfully nice, and she asked me to come to-morrow night and
Fix this textmeet her young half-brother. The party’s to celebrate him coming
Fix this textinto a sort of slab of inheritance, I think.”
Fix this textJoyce, you’re not gold-digging?”
Fix this text“Eve, how can you? Drat his inheritance! But the things
Fix this textMyrtles told me about him. I must meet
Fix this texthim, and T must wear the violet and
Fix this textsilver creation so that he’ll really notice
Fix this textme. Ive a sort of a hunch that he’s my
Fix this textdestiny.”
Fix this text“You’re bats.”
Fix this text“Eve, he is so
Fix this textromantically adven-
Fix this textturous. He was an
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Fix this textthe jungle; then he
Fix this textbecame chief of a
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Fix this textescaped* on a raft,
Fix this textwith his shirt for a
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Fix this textin civvies he joined a
Fix this texttravelling show and
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Fix this textHe got into the moving pic-
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Fix this textscnpt-wi itmg and now, when he gets this
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Fix this textUP worth to find locations and write a great
Fix this textadventure story for the movies.
Fix this text“What a man! What a lovely life! That
Fix this text(Continued on page 12.)
Fix this text[Registered at the General Past Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for transmission by post as a newspaper.]
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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