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I did think, one time, that the police would take us into custody on account of our morbid interest in the thing, and I don't believe we should have got off, if the Consul hadn't gone bail for us, so to speak. I thought we had better take the Consul in, on our way, and it was lucky we did." Clementina did not understand all the implications, but she was willing to take Mr. Hinkle's fun on trust.
First she conducted him to Jimmy Munn's feed and wagon-yard, where he contracted to spend the first half-dollar of the expedition by engaging Jimmy to haul his purchases up to the house. "Put the sideboards on your biggest wagon, Jimmy," was Viola's order, "and meet us at Hinkle's." She proved to be a very sweet and delightful autocrat.
Tucker and Ellen stood by with no interference save suggestion and comment, while Mary, who at one time worked for a hairdresser, did Susan's thick dark hair. Susan would permit no elaborations, much to Miss Hinkle's regret.
The light that beats upon the young lady cashier's cage is also something fierce. The other fellow is responsible for the slang. Every male patron of Hinkle's, from the A. D. T. boys up to the curbstone brokers, adored Miss Merriam. When they paid their checks they wooed her with every wile known to Cupid's art.
To give ample credit to the adaptability of the American girl, Hinkle's did fade from her memory and speech most of the time. Not every one will remember when the Earl of Hitesbury came to East Seventy Street, America. He was only a fair-to-medium earl, without debts, and he created little excitement.
Bennam gave me after my arrival, and I only observed the address in looking over the papers in my valise this morning." He handed her a telegram. "I trust that it is nothing requiring immediate attention." Clementina read it at a glance. "No," she answered, and for a while she could not say anything more; it was a cable message which Hinkle's sister must have sent her after writing.
Perhaps the brass-bound inaccessibility multiplies her charms anyhow, she is a shirt-waisted angel, immaculate, trim, manicured, seductive, bright-eyed, ready, alert Psyche, Circe, and Ate in one, separating you from your circulating medium after your sirloin medium. The young men who broke bread at Hinkle's never settled with the cashier without an exchange of badinage and open compliment.
You know, we have to go out with the buyers when they ask us. It helps the house sell goods. And we have to be careful not to offend them." Miss Hinkle's tone in the last remark was so significant that Susan looked at her and, looking, understood.
Hinkle's eldest son, A. Howard Hinkle, was brought up in the business, and the contract for 1874 provided that he should be admitted as a partner, with his father's interest and in his place, when that contract expired in 1877. The contract of 1874 was preparatory to the voluntary retirement of both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hinkle.
Can you?" Susan turned hastily away, so that her face was hidden from Miss Hinkle. "I'll bet you wasn't married to a coarse man." "I'd rather not talk about myself," said Susan with an effort. "It's not pleasant." Her manner of checking Miss Hinkle's friendly curiosity did not give offense; it excited the experienced working woman's sympathy.
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