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Eliph' Hewlitt stared at the Colonel, but he said nothing. He blamed himself; he had wasted his opportunity. This was what came of being slow! He should have completed his courtship at the picnic, or last night at the sale. Jim Wilkins interrupted the thought. "Leastways," he said, "HE'LL get her if Skinner don't. It's a close run between him an' Skinner.
Pa don't approve of books much, an' he can't see why he should pay out money for what he don't approve of. That's why I was so scared of you." "I didn't want to sell you a to sell you anything," said Eliph' meekly. "All I wanted was to get acquainted, to get well acquainted." "I guess that's all right then," said Miss Sally.
The next day he could enter the second stage of the directions, and call with a book, present it; call after dinner with a box of candy, present it; call after supper, and propose a walk, visit the ice cream parlor, and on the way home offer his hand, and be accepted. The chapter on "Courtship How to Win the Affections" advised against haste, and Eliph' did not wish to be hasty.
I was wondering if you would have space to run in a little card about that book." T. J. came forward and brushed a heap of exchanges from the only chair in the office, and motioned to it with his hand. Eliph' laid his book on the editor's desk, and picked up a copy of last week's TIMES. He ran his eye over the columns, and stopped at the advertisement of Skinner, the butcher.
Doctor Weaver came forward, a shade of anxiety on her face. "Mrs. Doctor Weaver, I suppose," said Eliph' Hewlitt. "Well, my name is Hewlitt, Eliph' Hewlitt, and I heard of this sale at the hotel. The landlord said strangers were welcome " "Of course they are!" exclaimed Mrs. Doctor Weaver.
Eliph' searched hurriedly in his pockets for another pair of spectacles, found them and put them on, and looked where the editor pointed. Across the street the attorney, backed up against the wall of the bank, was defending his face with one arm, and with his right hand seeking to grasp a ship that was raining blows upon his face and head.
"I'm not selling books to-night," explained Eliph' Hewlitt, for her words seemed one form of the usual reception of a book agent, and to indicate a desire to be rid of him as quickly as possible; "but I don't mind meeting him." As Mrs.
The girl listened eagerly and her indignation grew as he went on, so that he had to veer, and expatiate on the virtues of T. J. and the right of the modern press to meddle in private affairs when it wants to. "And can't anything be done?" asked Susan. "Why don't somebody do something? I didn't think Thomas was like that." "He isn't," admitted Eliph' heartily. "But he needs coaxing.
But Eliph' Hewlitt did not leave them there; he tucked them under his arm, and hurried away with brisk little steps. "There ought to be a license agin book agents," said Pap Briggs spitefully, when Eliph' Hewlitt had hurried away. "It wouldn't harm that feller," said Wilkins. "He's a red hot one at book-agenting, he is, an' he'd find out some way to git round it.
She merely turned her head to say: "I guess I don't want one to-day," and then Eliph' heard her open the door, and greet the newcomers as she welcomed them into the hall. They were Mrs. Tarbro-Smith and Susan, and, as Miss Sally hurried them up the stairs to remove their dusty hats, she leaned back and called to Eliph': "You can get right out the door," she said, "it ain't shut.
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