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In the midst of the hurry, the floor-walker gave Ellie a message to deliver to one of the clerks in the basement. "Don't delay!" he called after her. Eager to please, the child made her way through the throng, and was on the point of darting down the stairs, when, alas! her foot caught, she tripped, gave a little scream, and was precipitated down the entire flight.
At 11 P.M. he left her temporarily in charge of one Muggles, the curled darling and easily most imposing clerk among all those employed in the big "emporium" of the frontier town. He felt safe. Such a character as Molly Fleming could never be attracted by such a person as that scented floor-walker, even if he did chance to have a small interest in the concern and reasonably good prospects.
If, in dull moments of trade, when no customers were near, she made use of the seats lawfully provided for employees, she was at once ordered by a floor-walker to do something that required standing.
She continued to toss them to right and left, scattering them so carelessly about that one or two fell to the floor of the aisle and were retrieved by a near-by floor-walker, who glanced at poor Jessie, as much as to say, "Don't you let that happen again!" "I see nothing here I'd really have," remarked Mrs. Bixby, at last.
The captain of the Seamew could box the compass with the next seafarer, but he lost all idea of the points on the card before he had been three minutes in the store, and he had to hail a floor-walker to get his bearings. "Lace counter? Right this way, sir. Yes, sir. Just over there. Our er Miss Bostwick will serve you, sir. Forward!"
"I want to inquire if you have any acquaintance with the large grocery house of Kidder & Ladd, in the City?" he asked. "A slight business acquaintance," replied Anderson, wonderingly. "I saw," said Carroll, in an odd, breathless sort of voice, "an advertisement for a floor-walker in that house.
For nearly two hours, Roger read, in a deep, mellow voice, of the adventures of poor, persecuted Crystal, who was only sixteen, and engaged to a floor-walker in 'one of the great city's finest emporiums of trade. He and his mother both sighed when he came to the end of the installment, but for vastly different reasons. "Ain't it lovely, Roger?"
"Please do not blame the child," interposed the lady who had unwittingly caused the trouble. "It was my fault: I carelessly got in her way. I am very sorry." "Don't mention it, Mrs. M . It is not of the slightest consequence," said the floor-walker, with a bland smile and a bow. "The best of them become careless. But Cash has found a friend this time, so we'll let it pass."
"Nobody; I bought it; paid two dollars a share for it and now it's up to three, and Mr. Slathers, our floor-walker, says it's going to twenty-five. I've got a profit of twenty dollars on mine now." Abbie made a mental calculation; twenty dollars was a considerable part of her month's salary. "And everybody in our store has got some. Mr.
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