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Updated: June 20, 2025
"It's Merston's house-boy," he said. "I've sent him round to the kitchen to get a feed. Something's up there, I am afraid. Let's see what he has to say!" He opened the letter while he was speaking, and there fell a short silence while he read. Sylvia took up her duster again. Her hands were trembling. In a moment Burke spoke. "Yes, it's from Merston.
Much of his four-in-hand driving was done in the summer afternoons when he would come out on the train from his business in New York. My mother and one or perhaps two of us children might meet him at the station. I can see him now getting out of the car in his linen duster, jumping into the wagon, and instantly driving off at a rattling pace, the duster sometimes bagging like a balloon.
A little later in came his daughters, Geraldine and Angelina. They began dusting and setting the store to rights for the day's business. "Oh, my dear! look at this," said Angelina to her sister. "What is the matter?" asked Geraldine, pausing with a feather duster under her arm. "Why, the lovely white China Cat has a speck of dirt on her back," said Angelina.
Then she began to feel cold, and saw that the fire was dying. She darted to the heap of cones, and fed it. It blazed up cheerily, and she was comforted a little. Then she thought with herself it would surely be better to give in so far, and do a little work, than die of hunger. So catching up a duster, she began upon the table. The dust flew about and nearly choked her.
"And work. Keep on working!" There was a momentary return of her former manner as she spoke the words, and Betty wavered. She longed to say something comforting, something that would show that she understood. Mrs. Oakley had taken up the feather duster again. "Steena will show you out," she said curtly. And Betty was aware of the stolid Swede in the doorway. The interview was plainly at an end.
He returned hastily to the office, for he knew that if Abe found them in conversation on his return he would impute the cancellation of the order to something Morris had said. Thus Felix was left alone in the showroom, save for Cesar Kovalenko, who plied a feather duster industriously among the sample-racks.
Then there was J. N. Free the "Immortal J. N.," as he called himself, a gaunt, cadaverous figure in broad hat and linen duster, with hair flowing over his shoulders, who stalked into the offices at unseemly hours to "raise the veil" of ignorance and error, and "relieve the pressure" of psychic congestion in a town by turning upon it the batteries of his mind.
"It's very dirty wants cleaning badly," declared Shin Shira. "Why, I believe it's solid brass, though it looks like rusty iron in its present neglected state," and he seized a duster which was lying handy and gave the lamp several smart rubs. "Just as I thought," said he, going on vigorously with the polishing. "Why, it's splendid " "Oh!" I exclaimed, sinking into a chair.
A genial-looking fat man in a linen duster and a wide-brimmed hat was just clambering in over the wheel when he spied the two pedestrians gazing at the turnout, and called good-naturedly: "Want a lift? I'm goin' inter New Hartz." "Thanks. That is just where we are going, too," Jim replied promptly. "It's awfully good of you to take us along."
"Look out!" cried someone behind us, before we could recover from our first surprise and return the fire. One of the desperadoes had taken a bomb from under his duster, lighted it, and thrown it up through the hole in the floor. It sailed up over our heads and landed near our little group on the floor, the fuse sputtering ominously. Quickly we divided and backed away even further.
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