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Updated: June 9, 2025
This was the sure sign of a "winner"; and besides, 2884 had the right way with customers. She kept her temper, even with the most irritating "lemons." With remarkable quickness she had picked up slang danger signals by which one "assistant" can warn another of impending trouble.
Meggison in "spotting" No. 2884 for this place. Meggison was, of course, "onto" the situation, for the whole secret of the man's sudden rise lay in his capacity for knowing and keeping track of every current and undercurrent of life in each department.
Rags wants him and Ena to take us to the place. What Ena did say to Peter was, "Poor little Eileen is falling in love with you." Peter didn't believe it. But it put a strange idea into his head. "No. 2884 Child, W. Pay Envelope. Details under flap," Winifred read on the neat, pale-brown packet put into her hand the night when she had served Peter Rolls for a week or was it five hundred weeks?
"She ain't natural. What'll you bet she's a spy? I'm goin' to ask Miss Stein what she thinks." Miss Kirk was almost ready to go from the restaurant to work again when Win appeared, a three-cent entrance ticket in her hand, to face an atmosphere crowded with sundry uncongenial members of the vegetable kingdom. "Hello, 2884 England!" Sadie feigned facetiously to call her up by telephone.
There was 2884 without an excuse in the shape of another customer, and there was Tobias, with whom, on the strength of the alleged "invention," Mr. Jim Logan had already scraped acquaintance. The eyes of the girl and the man met. Logan saw that Miss Child had already guessed what he meant to do, or that she thought she had.
Two of the girls who had come up from the bargain square with her, on the return of Miss Stein and their other seniors, looked after Win as she passed out of the restaurant. "There goes Miss Thank-you-I-beg-your-pardon," said the young lady who had wondered if 2884 were a spy. "She's got a smile as if she was invited to tea with the Vanderbilts."
He had never yet had occasion to scold No. 2884; and, as a matter of fact, had noted her as a "lively proposition."
But Dora knew only too well that he would not demean himself to take revenge on her or any one. And probably she believed that he would not punish or even "call her down" for injustice to a newcomer. Thorpe was miserable that night, for he had missed few incidents of the day in Dora's neighbourhood. He recognized a "live wire" when he saw one, and he did see that 2884 had "stuff" in her.
She seemed to know by instinct when she could offer to send a toy C.O.D. for a stranger without fear of "cold pig" having the thing returned unpaid and she could give enough of her own vitality to a tired woman to make her want to buy. All these virtues Mr. Tobias had discerned in 2884, and with such heart as he had, he admired her.
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