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Updated: May 2, 2025
The only excuse for the name was a bay horse grazing in the front yard. I set my sample-case down, and tried to be ostensible. I told the landlord I was taking orders for plate-glass. "'I don't want no plates, says he, 'but I do need another glass molasses-pitcher. "By-and-by I got him down to local gossip and answering questions.
With an extra touch of manners the Salesman took off his neat brown derby hat and placed it carefully on the vacant seat in front of him. Then, shifting his sample-case adroitly to suit his new twisted position, he began to stick cruel little prickly price marks through alternate meshes of pink and blue lisle. "Why, sure you can listen!" he repeated benignly.
"And then a twist?" quizzed the Traveling Salesman earnestly, jotting down the memorandum very carefully on the shiny black surface of his sample-case. "Oh, I hope I ain't been too familiar," he added, with sudden contriteness. "Maybe I ought to have introduced myself first. My name's Clifford. I'm a drummer for Sayles & Sayles. Maine and the Maritime Provinces that's my route.
The Youngish Girl's answer was astonishingly tranquil. "I don't know, I'm sure," she said. "That part of it isn't my business. All I know is that I wrote the letter and mailed it. It's Fate's move next." "But maybe he never got the letter!" protested the Traveling Salesman, buckling frantically at the straps of his sample-case. "Very likely," the Youngish Girl answered calmly.
"You do that, and don't worry about our making good. I'm going to put all my time and energy into this proposition and " "Then you'll make good all right," Sperry assured him. "All anybody's got to do is look at you to see you're a good business man." He returned Duncan's pressure and picked up his sample-case. "S'long," said he, and left briskly, leaving Duncan speechless.
Her thoughts were far, far away from samples and sample cases. So he had turned out to be his worthless father's son after all! He must have got some news of her by now. And he ignored it. He was content to amuse himself up there in the Canadian woods, while his mother Miss Riordon, flushed, and panting a little, burst into the room again, sample-case in hand. "Lordy, that's heavy!
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