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The appointment thus made was due to my touching the electric bell in my office, a signal agreed upon as an indication of my desire to assist any applicant for aid. Accordingly, when I entered Mr. Chelm's room after his visitor was gone, I was greeted with a bantering smile. "How now, my fair philanthropist! What scheme have you to relieve the plight of this knight-errant?"
I would certainly make the endeavor; and under the influence of this determination I revolved with a freshened interest as I went along the street the circumstances of a curious incident that had befallen me a week ago at Mr. Chelm's office. So absorbed was I that I did not notice the approach of Mr. Spence and Miss Kingsley until they were close upon me.
One morning as I was thus sitting hoping for some client to arrive, I saw through the half open door a young man dressed in the height of fashion, bien ganté, bien chaussé, and attended by the very ugliest bull-terrier it had ever been my lot to gaze on, enter Mr. Chelm's office.
He was to start in business as soon as possible, and make frequent reports of his progress to Mr. Chelm. Meanwhile I sat within hearing distance, and occasionally took a peep at them from my coign of vantage. I could perceive from Mr. Chelm's manner that he was pleased with the tone and alertness of the other in putting matters into shape.
But though I was at times melancholy for a sight of my lover, joy was chiefly predominant in my heart, so much so that people commented on my cheerfulness, and Aunt Helen dropped occasional hints which led me to believe she cherished secretly the opinion that I was enamoured of her idol. My visits to Mr. Chelm's office were of course renewed.
I placed my chair however so that I should be screened from observation and yet within earshot, prepared to see and listen as long as should be possible. The visitor drew a card from a very dainty case and laid it on Mr. Chelm's desk. "My name is Prime, sir, Francis Prime. I have come to consult you on a business matter." "Pray sit down, Mr. Prime. What is it I can do for you?"
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