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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Then when I entered that hotel, I'd look around and say, "Well, well!" For there would be the same news-stand, same magazines and candies grand, same smokes of famous standard brand, I'd find at home, I'll tell!
He read the advertisements on the walls, studied the map of the Great Northern route, and when the stove grew red-hot, threw open the door and tramped the platform in the piping wind. Finally, when the keyboard was quiet, the operator brought him a magazine. The station did not keep a news-stand, but a conductor on the westbound had left this for him to read.
He was in the street at seven the next morning. As he walked along with a News-Record, bought at the first news-stand, he searched every page: first, the larger "heads" such a long story would call for a "big head;" then the smaller "heads" they may have been crowded and have had to cut it down; then the single-line "heads" surely they found a "stickful" or so worth printing. At last he found it.
The elevator starter agreed that she did and whistled "She May Have Seen Better Days" till the news-stand girl giggled and told him he was "Too comical" but they both of them commented about her when she did not return. "She may be a nut," admitted the girl, "But she's kinda got me going.
A kind of mask, impenetrable as lead, seemed to have settled over his face, which had been gradually relaxing during the meal into a half indulgent grin of interest in his queer host. "Yas, I'm in business fer myself," he drawled at last after carefully scrutinizing the other's face to be sure there was no underlying motive for the question. "News-stand?" asked Michael. "Not eggs-act-ly!"
When he reached the city he went to the news-stand in the station, where was an agent who knew him, and procured a copy of every paper on sale. Then, instead of hurrying home, he found a seat in a secluded corner and proceeded to examine his purchases.
The father was respectable and tight, a mortgage fancier and a stern, upright collection-plate passer and forecloser. The kid was a boy of ten, with bas-relief freckles, and hair the color of the cover of the magazine you buy at the news-stand when you want to catch a train. Bill and me figured that Ebenezer would melt down for a ransom of two thousand dollars to a cent. But wait till I tell you.
And when the great cloud of leaves and dust had disappeared on the heights of the Quartier Malesherbes, the sidewalks and roads remained bare, strangely clean and swept. Bertin was thinking: "What will become of me? What shall I do? Where shall I go?" And he returned home, unable to think of anything. A news-stand attracted his eye.
The Oriental may be inscrutable, but he is no more puzzling than the average American. We admit that we are hard, keen, practical, the adjectives that every casual European applies to us, and yet any book-store window or railway news-stand will show that we prefer sentimental magazines and books. Why should a hard race if we are hard read soft books?
As she turned away, a tall, fine-looking, well set-up, dark-haired, clean-cut, young chap, who had just rounded the news-stand, grabbed off his hat and greeted her with the glad smile of an old acquaintance. "Why, how do you do, Mrs. Cuthbert!" he exclaimed. "This is an unexpected pleasure, and most opportune." There was a slight stress on the last two words: the words of recognition.
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