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It was a device of Edwin's for privacy; Edwin had planned it and seen the plan executed. Only persons of authority Darius and Edwin had the privilege of the office, and since its occupant could hear every whisper in the shop, it was always for the occupant to decide when events demanded that he should emerge. On Janet's entrance, Edwin was writing in the daybook: "April 11th.
She loved to discuss such topics with her devoted admirer, Emily, and liked to be accused of breaking hearts. "We shall be late for supper again," Mrs. Day, busy with daybook and ledger in the shop, would say to the young daughter beside her. "Never mind, mama. Perhaps it is charity not to hurry," Deleah on one occasion responded. "Oh, nonsense, dear!" said Mrs.
Jerry had fallen asleep after supper without recourse to the medicine Dr. Davison had left. As usual, Uncle Jabez was poring over his daybook and counting the cash in the japanned money box. Ruth was deep in her text books. One does forget so much between June and September! Aunt Alvirah was busily sewing some ruffled garment for "her pretty."
"You're no good, Harry," said my father, "not a bit, and unless you sink that tin-pot pride of yours, and leave off wandering about and wearing out your boots, and take off your coat and go to work, you'll never get a living. You've always got your nose stuck in a book such trash! Do you ever see me over a book unless it's a daybook or ledger, eh?"
"Keep it!" snapped Washer, and started for the door. "Much obliged," returned Johnny cheerfully, and returned to his combination daybook, journal, ledger and diary. "Ashley, I put in four hours' overtime, Monday. Do I enter that on the debit or credit side?" Loring stifled a snicker. "I think I'd open a separate account for that," he solemnly advised.
The combined knowledge of everybody else was his: he had a passion for facts, a memory like a daybook, and his systematic mind was disciplined until it was a regular Dewey card-index.
Except for the nervous worry of ill-health, he was the kind-hearted, unaffected Artemus of old, loving as a girl and liberal as a prince. He once showed me his daybook in which were noted down over five hundred dollars lent out in small sums to indigent Americans. "Why," said I, "you will never get half of it back."
Now, what do you suppose that fellow has come back here for, and after he publicly complimented me on the admirable manner in which my books were kept, too?" and the industrious knight of the ledger and the daybook had such a look of worry on his face that it was all Mr. Winslow could do to keep from laughing outright.
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