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Updated: May 1, 2025
Well might the young expressman start at the unexpected revelation of those sparkling eyes and that demurely smiling mouth at the little window. "Mrs. Baker!" She put her finger quickly to her lips, and threw a world of unutterable and enigmatical meaning into her mischievous face. "There's a big San Francisco swell takin' my place at Laurel to-night, Charley." "Yes, ma'am."
When I had seen it in the hands of the expressman I had a feeling that our pretty apartment was no longer home. I went over to my club for luncheon. A number of my friends were there, and I seized an auspicious moment to announce my purchase and to exhibit a bunch of photographs. They were good fellows who showed a proper interest. Some of them already owned farms some had farms in prospect.
Time and toil and the worry of keeping cash enough on hand to pay the expressman who dumps his ready prints on the floor each Wednesday and refuses to budge until he has collected $3.24 have taken the pepper out of him.
Then she turned quickly, went into the house and shut the door. It was about this time we noticed that Blanche Devine was away much of the time. The little white cottage would be empty for a week. We knew she was out of town because the expressman would come for her trunk. We used to lift our eyebrows significantly.
"I fear there's some extraordinary mistake here," said Mr. Peaseley, with a chilling Christian smile. "Not a bit of it. He's got a letter from Sam for one of ye. Yere, Charley what's your name! Com yere. Yere's all yer three bosses waiting for ye." And the supposed expressman and late narrator of amusing stories came forward and presented his credentials as the assistant teacher of Pine Clearing.
Then the senator remembered that the checks had been forgotten, and against a voluble protest he secured them from Manners, and went after an expressman. Having found the expressman one of his constituents and a power in the town, he handed him the checks, a fifty-cent piece, and a ponderous joke as old as Xerxes, at which the expressman roared.
"How are you getting on with your play, Emma?" she asked. "I still have the title," returned Emma blandly, "but I can't decide upon my characters. There are so many shining lights at Wayne Hall. You know my play is entitled "Life at Wayne Hall; Or, the Expressman's Surprise." The only character I've actually decided upon is the expressman. I am obliged to have him because he is in the sub-title.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the partition, Mrs. Baker had brushed the red dust from the padlocked bag, and removed what seemed to be a supplementary package attached to it by a wire. Opening it she found a handsome scent-bottle, evidently a superadded gift from the devoted expressman. This she put aside with a slight smile and the murmured word, "Foolishness."
Presently Clarence addressed a remark to the stranger in Spanish; he replied fluently and courteously, but at the next stopping-place he asked a question of the expressman in an unmistakable Missouri accent.
The mother kissed her in reply and patted the girl's shoulder. "There is somebody," she sighed to herself. "And they've made up again" and a prayer trembled on her lips. Her joy now became contagious. The expressman noticed it; so did Mrs. Skitson and the storekeeper. So did Mr. Taylor, who stopped his wagon and leaned half out to shake her hand.
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