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He was waiting for her when she entered the house, having come in from an out-of-town trip on an earlier train than he had expected to catch. He dropped his newspaper and sprang up from his chair to put his arms about her and gloat over her beauty. "You're getting prettier every day of your life, Lydia," he told her, ruffling her soft hair, and kissing her very energetically a great many times.
Most of these "early birds" were, of course, out-of-town folks, farmers' families that had come in, to market, perhaps, and they stayed over to see the great show, because everybody living for many miles round Scranton had heard about the meet, and and what a wonderful sight it would be, well worth going miles to gaze upon.
With his yearnings for some one more advanced in years full upon him, the visitor now inquired for the business manager of the new magazine, only to find a man of twenty-six. His next introduction was to the head of the out-of-town business department, who was twenty-seven. At this point the Boston man asked to see Mr. Scribner. This disclosed to him Mr.
"How valuable is the part asked for?" Rick queried. "Not valuable at all, except that the field could be used for hay or alfalfa. That's why I was rather puzzled." "Who wanted the land?" Scotty asked. "I don't know. The offer came through Jethro Collins, a local real-estate man. He said he was acting as agent for out-of-town interests that preferred to remain unknown for political reasons.
Of course, the message was much more condensed than that, but Nyoda got it all in. Then there was nothing else for us to do but make the best of a bad bargain and hunt up the one hotel in S and prepare to spend the night. But when we got there it was crowded. There was a big wedding in town that night, we were informed, and the out-of-town guests had filled the hotel.
Wherever the catalogue goes the store goes. Some of the appeals made, statements advanced, and arguments used to influence and encourage trade among out-of-town customers might be classified as follows: Whenever you order, always bear this in mind, that if you don't get goods as represented, back goes your money to you as soon as you want it.
We had one thousand letters prepared and mailed at one time. These were addressed to a list of alleged wealthy out-of-town investors, which we had purchased from an addressing agency. Not one single reply did we receive. Then we took our "Bradstreet's" and at random selected the names of five hundred firms, scattered over the United States, rating not less than five hundred thousand dollars.
One of the maxims of the theatre is that "out-of-town notices don't count," and the company had refused to be cheered by them. It is to be doubted, however, if even crowded houses would have aroused much response from the principals and chorus of "The Rose of America." For two weeks without a break they had been working under forced draught, and they were weary in body and spirit.
The cops weren't bribed, but their wives liked openin' the door of a mornin' an' findin' charmin' little surprises." "Ah," said Brink. "Then there were juke boxes," went on the detective. "He went in that business an' trouble started. People'd drive up to a beer joint, go in, get in a scuffle an' bingo! The juke box smashed. Always the juke box. Always a out-of-town customer.
There isn't one of the boys wouldn't agree with me if they knew. We aren't big enough, I tell you, to sink a million in an out-of-town charity like that. In any charity, for that matter, no matter how big it shows up. You say yourself a million and a half will cripple you. Well, your first duty is to us living and not to him dead To us living! It means my whole life, my whole life!"
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