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The captain of that ship was a high liver, and his room was chuck full of champagne bottles. I put in two extry corks for good measure, and when the ship went down, I floated off on the top of the ocean as easy as a duck takes to a pond." "My sakes!" exclaimed Mrs. Weaver, "that captain must have been an awful hard drinker!" "He was," said Eliph' Hewlitt "fearful. I was really shocked.
I think I may safely advise Mrs. Bell to let Susan go with you." "One!" said Eliph' Hewlitt quickly. "That's just ONE question that came up flaring, and was mashed flat by Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, a book in which are ten thousand and one subjects, fully treated by the best minds of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
But you needn't hitch up my horse in the morning." "No?" asked the landlord sleepily. "No," said Eliph', "and if any feller comes this way selling books in the next month or so, just tell him there ain't no use for a raw hand to waste time in this town. Tell him Eliph' Hewlitt has settled down to live here."
She glanced back at the eager face of Eliph' Hewlitt, and mistook the glow of "Affection, How to Hold it When Won," for the intense glance of the predatory book seller. "I'll take a copy," she said recklessly. Eliph' Hewlitt's face clouded, and he put out his hand as if to ward off a blow. "No, you won't!" he said, with distress. "You don't want one, and I won't sell you one."
Eliph' Hewlitt arose from his chair and tucked the oilcloth-covered parcel that had been lying on his knees under his left arm. He was a small man, and his movements were apt to be short and jerky. "Missionary sale?" he said briskly. "I guess I'll go around and look in on it. Strangers welcome, I suppose? I'm rather fond of missionary sales, and I think the world and all of the heathen.
About town he used to show them with a great deal of pride, and openly boasted of their cost and beauty. On Sunday he wore them all day. Whenever Eliph' Hewlitt drove into a town he looked about with a seeing eye, for he had learned to judge the capacity of a place for Jarby's Encyclopedia by the appearance of the town, but as he drove into Kilo he was more than usually interested.
Eliph' Hewlitt found the page, and pointed to the heading with his finger. "'Five Hundred Ennobling Thoughts from the World's Greatest Authors, including the Prose and Poetical Gems of All ages," he read. "There they were-sixty-two solid pages of them, with vingetty portraits of the authors. I read No. 285: "As Thou has made Thy world without, Make Thou more fair my world within, et cetery."
She has the great gates locked, and whoever wants to go in, no matter on what errand, must ring the lodge-keeper's bell, and it's only her own visitors, or the tradespeople with meat and groceries and such like as are admitted. They say she's gone almost queer in her head about it." "What a pity!" sighed Diana. "Still, you can hardly blame her," added Mrs. Hewlitt.
"I don't believe I care for a copy to-day," said the lady. "No," said Eliph' Hewlitt, meekly. "I know it. Nor I don't want to sell you one. I just mentioned it to show you that when you have a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge you have an entire library in one book, arranged and indexed by the greatest minds of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Hewlitt remained in Paris, and did not even speak of booking passages to New York. They wrote instead to make arrangements for Diana's holidays in England. It was at first decided that she should spend the time with her cousins, the Burritts, but influenza broke out so badly at Petteridge Court that all in a hurry the plans had to be changed.
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