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"All right, lady," said the shoeman. "Them's youa slippas, and I'll just keep 'em for you till the latta paht of August." He drove away, and in the woods which he had to pass through on the road to another hotel he overtook the figure of a man pacing rapidly. He easily recognized Gregory, but he bore him no malice. "Like a lift?" he asked, slowing up beside him. "No, thank you," said Gregory.
He said, "But I can't do anything with that fellow; why, his brother, who is his partner, sells shoes on the road." That is, I'll make out to him that I'm selling shoes and I bet you that I'll bring him to my sample room." "Well, I'll just take that bet," said the shoeman. About this time I left for the depot. The next time I saw the drygoods man I asked him how he came out on that bet.
"All right, lady," said the shoeman. "Them's youa slippas, and I'll just keep 'em for you till the latta paht of August." He drove away, and in the woods which he had to pass through on the road to another hotel he overtook the figure of a man pacing rapidly. He easily recognized Gregory, but he bore him no malice. "Like a lift?" he asked, slowing up beside him. "No, thank you," said Gregory.
The shoeman was far too discreet to permit himself anything so overt as a smile; he merely let a light of intelligence come into his face. Gregory paid the money. "Please consider this as confidential," he said, and he made swiftly away. Before the shoeman could lock the drawer that had held the slippers, and clamber to his perch under the buggy-hood, Gregory was running back to him again.
The girls cried out for joy, and the chef bore their mirth stoically, but not without a personal relish of the shoeman's up-and-comingness. "Want a hawss?" asked the shoeman with an air of business. "What'll you give?" "I'll give you thutty-seven dollas and a half," said the chef. "Sorry I can't take it. That hawss is sellin' at present for just one hundred and fifty dollas."
A groan of dismay went up from the whole circle, and some who had pressed forward for a sight of the slippers, shrank back again. "Did I hea' just now," asked the shoeman, with a soft insinuation in his voice, and in the glance he suddenly turned upon Clementina, "a party addressed as Boss?"
"Nice fellow, that shoeman or he will be when he gets over thinking I'm a tin god and sits down and plays crib like I was an ordinary human being.... We ought to have larger show-windows. We'll keep Peter on don't want to make the boy lose his job on account of me. Give him another chance.... I'm just wambling, Mother, but I'm so excited at having a job again "
"Stop!" he called, and as he came up panting in an excitement which the shoeman might well have mistaken for indignation attending the discovery of some blemish in his purchase. "Do you regard this as in any manner a deception?" he palpitated. "Why," the shoeman began cautiously, "it wa'n't what you may call a promise, exactly. More of a joke than anything else, I looked on it.
One day the shoeman stopped his wagon at the door of the helps' house, and called up at its windows, "Well, guls, any of you want to git a numba foua foot into a rumba two shoe, to-day? Now's youa chance, but you got to be quick abort it. The'e ha'r't but just so many numba two shoes made, and the wohld's full o' rumba foua feet."
As soon as Old Benzine had run in all the goods he could, he did the shipping act. He left a lot of empty boxes on his shelves but shipped nearly all of his stock to some of his relatives, and then in came the coal-oil can once more." "Didn't you get any money out of him at all?" one of the boys asked. "Money?" said the shoeman.
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