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He was driving the delivery-wagon in the hope of recovering his health by out-of-door life, and he was, or flattered himself that he was, perceptibly gaining. "Where's the next delivery?" he inquired, hoarsely. "Wait a minute," said the old clerk, and again invaded the office. "They 'ain't paid their hired girl," he said, in a whisper. "Had we better "
"I can manage if I don't have the eggs until noon," said Charlotte. The clerk turned to put away the parcel in readiness for the delivery-wagon, and again Anderson and the girl looked at each other. Anderson had caught up his hat with his newspaper as he came out of the office, and Charlotte looked at it. "Were you going out?" she asked, timidly, and yet the question seemed to imply a suggestion.
If last week my Sollie didn't fall off the delivery-wagon and sprain his back!" "You don't say so!" "That same job as you got him two years ago so good he's kept, and now such a thing has to happen. Gott sei dank, he's up and out again, but I tell you it was a scare!" "I should say so. And how is Tillie?" "Mrs.
"After a few months, when he is cooled down, if you want to, you can get the job of drivin' delivery-wagon for him. Any time you want me, just send for me an' I'll come. Don't forget." She went away weeping audibly, and he felt a pang of sorrow shoot through him at sight of her heavy body and uncouth gait. As he watched her go, the Nietzschean edifice seemed to shake and totter.
The driver had used his last spare, so there was nothing to do but keep going on the rim. The car was of the delivery-wagon type "pill-boxes" were what they were known as and while we were stopped taking stock I happened to catch sight of a good-sized bedding-roll behind. "Some one's out of luck," said I to the driver; "whose roll is it?" "The corps commander's, sir," was his reply.
What she saw was the side of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church a plain clapboard wall of a sour liver color; the ash-pile back of the church; an unpainted stable; and an alley in which a Ford delivery-wagon had been stranded. This was the terraced garden below her boudoir; this was to be her scenery for "I mustn't! I mustn't! I'm nervous this afternoon.
"Good-morning," said Charlotte, in a choked voice. Eddy looked at him and sniffled, then he flung out, angrily, "What you going to take to our house?" he demanded of the consumptive man gathering up the reins of the delivery-wagon. "Hush!" said Charlotte. "I won't hush," said Eddy. "I'm hungry. What are you taking up to our house? Say!"
He wore a gray bicycle cap on the back of his head, and his hair was straw-colored and curly, and his sunburned face looked like one that smiled a good deal when he was not preaching the doctrine of everlasting punishment to delivery-wagon horses.
As he swayed there, hesitating, he heard the thunder of hoofs and the rumble of wheel-tires on the soggy asphalt. His first apprehensive thought was that it would prove to be a patrol-wagon, with police reserves from some neighboring precinct. But as he blinked through the darkness he made out a high-platformed Metropolitan Milk Company's delivery-wagon swinging down toward him.
Gus most opportunely secured a week's job driving a delivery-wagon, and he instantly invested his wages in the provisioning of the cow quarters. "The feed'll git stale by the time the cow comes," objected Milt. "Mebby it's fer bait to ketch a critter with," offered Bobby. After all, it was the miracle predicted by Mrs. Jenkins that came to pass and delivered the cow.
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