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“
Doesn
’
t
Methuen
send
you
a
check
?
”
Beth
said
.
Mrs
.
Wheatley
brought
her
eyes
down
from
the
ceiling
and
stared
at
her
.
“
For
the
first
year
,
”
she
said
evenly
.
“
As
if
the
expenses
of
keeping
you
didn
’
t
exhaust
it
.
”
Beth
knew
that
wasn
’
t
true
.
The
check
was
seventy
dollars
,
and
Mrs
.
Wheatley
didn
’
t
spend
that
much
on
her
.
“
It
requires
twenty
dollars
for
us
to
live
passably
until
the
first
of
the
month
,
”
Mrs
.
Wheatley
said
.
“
I
am
thirteen
dollars
short
of
that
.
”
She
turned
her
gaze
briefly
ceilingward
and
then
back
to
Beth
again
.
“
I
shall
have
to
keep
better
records
.
”
“
Maybe
it
’
s
inflation
,
”
Beth
said
,
with
some
truth
.
She
had
taken
only
six
,
for
the
membership
.
“
Maybe
it
is
,
”
Mrs
.
Wheatley
said
,
mollified
.
The
problem
was
the
five
dollars
for
the
entry
fee
.
In
home
room
,
the
day
after
Mrs
.
Wheatley
’
s
oration
about
money
,
Beth
took
a
sheet
from
her
composition
book
and
wrote
a
letter
to
Mr
.
Shaibel
,
Custodian
,
Methuen
Home
,
Mount
Sterling
,
Kentucky
.
It
read
:
Dear
Mr
.
Shaibel
:
There
is
a
chess
tournament
here
with
a
first
prize
of
one
hundred
dollars
and
a
second
prize
of
fifty
dollars
.
There
are
other
prizes
,
too
.
It
costs
five
dollars
to
enter
it
,
and
I
don
’
t
have
that
.
If
you
will
send
me
the
money
I
will
pay
you
back
ten
dollars
if
I
win
any
prize
at
all
.
