Normally she acquiesced in favor of a paycheck, but Lacy's demand was bizarre, even by Lacy-standards.
It all boiled down to money – who had a paycheck to measure the importance of their labor and who didn't.
My first pay-day had already come and gone and I had strolled up the gravel walk one noon-day to the Disembursing Office with my yellow pay certificate duly initialed by the examiner of accounts, and was handed my first four twenty-dollar gold pieces--for hotel and commissary books sadly reduce a good paycheck.