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Updated: June 5, 2025
"How do you know?" "I'm not sure how I know. But you haven't found the thing yet that you like the incentive." "Tommy wants me to go into politics. He and Henry Bittinger. Henry says I ought to be President." O-liver chuckled. But she took it seriously. "Why not? You've the brains and the magnetism. Can't you see how the crowd draws to you on Saturday nights?" "Like bees round a honey pot? Yes."
They came back to buy because never had there been such sandwiches. Jane had improved upon her first idea. There were not only ham sandwiches; there were baked beans between brown bread, thin slices of broiled bacon in hot baking-powder biscuit. Henry Bittinger said to Atwood Jones afterward: "The food was so good that if she had been as ugly as sin she'd have got away with it."
Tinkersfield had assumed a sudden importance as an oil town. All of the men had business connected in some way with Tinkersfield. And all of them earned more than fifteen dollars a week. Therefore they disputed O-liver's statement. "If you had a wife " said one. "Ah," said O-liver, "if I had " "Ain't you got any ambition?" Henry Bittinger demanded.
She held to the traditions of the past; you are blazing new ways for women, selling sandwiches in the market-place. By Jove, it was superb the way you did it, Jane!" She was always in a glow when he left her. Here was a man different from her father, different from Henry Bittinger and Atwood Jones. She smiled a little as she thought of Atwood. He had asked her to marry him.
Jane's ideas of men were bounded largely by the weakness of her father and the crudeness of men like Henry Bittinger, Atwood Jones and others of their kind. She didn't consider Tommy at all. He was a nice boy and a faithful friend. His mother, too, was a faithful friend. She classed them together.
He got Henry Bittinger to put up the money, with Tommy and his mother in charge. O-liver lived in the hotel in a suite of small rooms, and when Atwood Jones passed that way the four men dined together as O-liver's guests. "Some day we'll eat with you in Washington," was Atwood's continued prophecy. They always drank "To Jane." Now and then Atwood brought news of her.
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