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That movie actress?" asked the young woman with added sharpness in her tone. "What you going to do with her?" Cap'n Amazon came back to the counter and even his momentary silence was impressive. He favored the customer with a long stare. "Course, 'tain't none o' my business. I was just askin' " "You made an int'restin' discovery, then, ma'am," he said. "It ain't any of your business.
Tobias saw what was going on, he ignored it tactfully, for the great thing was to keep a good customer at any price. If the price were a flirtation, why all the better for the girl, provided the man were chump enough to give her a good restaurant dinner now and then.
Then passing between two suits of oilskins which stood as sentinels in the doorway, he entered the shop and smiled affably at Miss Kybird, who was in charge. At his entrance she put down a piece of fancy-work, which Mr. Kybird called his sock, and with a casual glance at his clothes regarded him with a prejudiced eye. "Beautiful day," said the customer; "makes one feel quite young again."
Other traders, too, dispense their stock by a sliding-scale, and are sometimes out of stock altogether: Pussy's provider, on the contrary, sticks to one price from year's end to year's end, and never, in the memory of the oldest Grimalkin, was known to disappoint a customer.
Perhaps the same one who was responsible for our loss in tickets this afternoon," answered the young magician. "Carfax?" asked the ringmaster. "It might be, and yet he isn't the only man who's been discharged or who has a grudge against me. There was Gianni with whom I had a fight." "You mean the Italian? Yes, he was an ugly customer. But I haven't heard of him for years.
"Be as sweet as honey at first," said Carlos; "be almost timid, as suspicious as a cat; and, above all, make the Baron ashamed of having employed the police, without betraying that you quake before the constable. Finally, make your customer understand in more or less plain terms that you defy all the police in the world to discover his jewel. Take care to destroy your traces.
"Me best customer," cried Pinkey in dismay. "She pays at the end of the month like clockwork." Mrs Partridge stared at the heap of silver, and changed the subject.
Then with a final thump, punching the article contemptuously, he would offer it, regardless of consequences, for half his previous offer. Sometimes he refused to accept the money because the customer was not quick enough. Neither might the people examine his goods. He was master, and more, and found his account in it. He took up a frowsy old gown. "There ye are.
And then he thought of Edith not of Edith the mother, but of Edith the girl in the days of his wooing. And he went into Maillard's. The pretty girl at the counter knew him. He was an old customer, and she had often filled orders for him. She had despatched many a costly box to addresses he had given her.
But the gobbler was a hard customer and he showed fight, whereupon there was a general squawking and squalling. Clinging to his capture, Frank made a dash for the door. He tripped and fell, and it is certain that by falling he saved himself from carrying off a charge of shot, if not from death.
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