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During the afternoon Richard had occasion again to visit the packing-room, and once more Norris, who was the only one present, approached him. "How would you like to go to Niblo's Garden with me to-night?" he asked. "I have two tickets, and I would be pleased to have your company." "I am much obliged, I'm sure, but I have an errand to-night," replied Richard. "I must deliver two letters."
So, guided by the Paris friend with whom she lodged, she made her way to the Rue Vaugirard, where, in the packing-room, she had found hard unemotional employment. Yet the work had to be done: and it was done for France, which, after all, was dearer to her than England; and among her fellow-workers, women of all classes, she had pleasant companionship.
The wire frames sped along like miniature moving sidewalks, their contents drying and cooling on the way. In the meantime the superfluous chocolate dripped through the netting into a trough beneath and was collected to be melted over again. On went the finished chocolates until they reached the packing-room, where girls removed them from the frames, sorted them, and put them into boxes.
"Thank you; I will give you your instructions, and shall be glad to have you go at once." It is not necessary to our story that we should know the nature of the errand on which Haynes was sent. It served the purpose of getting him out of the way. When the suspected clerk was fairly on his way Mr. Hartley went to the packing-room, and looked about him till he discovered the case addressed to
It had been a packing-room, and when Miss Katherine first saw it she just whistled soft and easy; but when she was through, it was just a dream. It is a big room at the end of the wing, and it has three windows in it: one in the front and one in the back and one opposite the door you come in.
Everett.........................$60 So Tom Everett, Macy's weak-chinned nephew, had started at sixty and in three weeks he had been out of the packing-room and into the office. So that was it!
Through an open door on the ground-floor you see the packing-room, where marvels of silk and lace are being enveloped in mountains of tissue-paper to be sent to the four quarters of the globe; on the first floor, or entresol, are workrooms full of girls seated at long tables and sewing under the directing eye of a severe-looking matron; on the second floor are generally situated the show- and reception-rooms.
But however interesting the results, one grows tired at length of the noise and clatter of machinery; and it was with a feeling of relief that we mounted to the packing-room, where all was so light, cheerful, and orderly, as to prove that the good management everywhere perceptible had here put on its pleasantest expression. The most perfect cleanliness prevails.
When, one day, the old concierge, bemedalled from the war of 1870, appeared to her in the packing-room, with the announcement that a dame anglaise desired to speak to her, she was at first bewildered. She knew no English ladies had never met one in her life. It took a second or two for the thought to flash that the visit might concern Doggie. Then came conviction.
The Great World, as he saw it through a tiny hole in one of the opaque wire-glass windows, consisted of three bars of a rusty fire-escape-landing against a yellow brick wall, with a smudge of black on the wall below the landing. Within two days he was calling the packing-room a prison.
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