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Updated: May 17, 2025
"I think you go to everything for it and to everybody with it," said Sylvie, squeezing her friend's hand as he left her on the car-step. Nothing comes much before we need it.
They scrambled wildly for the door. Sid was the first in the street and helped the lady down from the high car-step, while John drew the tickets from his coat pocket and led the way to the brilliantly lighted theater lobby. Louise's eyes glistened with excitement as the trio stopped to look at the posters beside the doorway.
Glover stepped to the east window. A young lady was gathering up her gown to mount the car-step and a porter was assisting her. The daintiness of her manner was a nightmare of conviction. Glover turned from the window and began tearing up papers on his table. He tore up all the worthless papers in sight and for months afterward missed valuable ones.
'Good-night, ma'am! thankee, sir! croaked the grateful little voice, as the child was caught up in John's strong hands and set down on the car-step. With a word to the conductor, and a small business transaction, we left Jack coiled up in a corner to finish his nap as tranquilly as if it wasn't midnight, and a 'knocking-round' might not await him at his journey's end.
For four years women had been mincing along in garments so absurdly narrow that each step was a thing to be considered, each curbing or car-step demanding careful negotiation. Now, Fashion, in her freakiest mood, commanded a bewildering width of skirt that was just one remove from the flaring hoops of Civil War days. Emma knew what that meant for the Featherloom workrooms and selling staff.
As the engine whistled for the last time Dick sprang upon a car-step, one hand holding to the rail while with the other he returned the powerful grip of Red Blaze, who with his own unconfined hand grasped the bridles of the three horses, which had served them so well.
She turned; he had a handful of small, long-stemmed flowers of an exquisite blue. "How beautiful!" she exclaimed, moved by surprise. "What are they?" "Desert flowers." "Such a blue." "You expressed a regret this morning " "Oh, you heard " "I overheard " "What are they called?" "I haven't an idea. But once in the Sioux country " They were at the car-step. "Marie?
Why wasn't it my luck to go with you, Sergeant Whitley, and the man they call Red Blaze on that errand and help bring back with you the message of President Lincoln? But I heard what our red friend said to you at the car-step. There's a powerful lot in knowing the way, knowing where you're going, and what's along every inch of the road.
Then, as we pulled out of one town, two of what but for their color and size I should have taken for peons raced for the last car-step, one shouting to the other in the strongest of Hoosier accents: "Come on, Bud, let's jemp 'er!" Which both did, riding some sixty feet, and dropped off like men who had at last had their one daily excitement.
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