Milford chronicle., 1883-07-13

make a sale of some kind. It was one
of those early spring days when trade is
tickle, and as the afternoon progressed
customers became rather scarce who
wanted carpets, although on the two
lower floors business seemed to be in full
blast.
Arthur was left alone at the elevator.
and he watched it anxiously as it slowly
left the second floor, and at last depos-
tied its load at his feet in the shape Of
one solitary customer.
young man, said she-and she was
long and gaunt, and her eye was com
manding-'I want to match carpet.
1t was bought some twenty=seven years
ago. 1t had a plum-colored ground,
with bokays, red, green, yellow, blew,
and little white, with little sprays of
flowers mixed between, and" here she
gave a wide, sweeping kind of flourish
with her right hand-'here there was a
large blew horn"
MADAM, we have not got it.
! "Eh"
eve have not got it.
"What, not got it? Look p
Its no use looking, madam.
cit amt, Ell? Where's the superin-
tenndent?'
Arthur was obliged to call the little
fiery man who had spoken to him in the
morning.
"Well, Bentley, how's this Lady
wants to match carpet. Why don't
you find it ?"
''AIr. Van Twiller, she says she bought
it twenty-seven years ago." replied |
Arthur, confident that mentioning this
fact would explain the reason of his pos
itive assertion that they had none left.
"Come this way, madam, said the
superintendent, as he led the way to the
body Brussels department, followed by
the long and gaunt female with deter.
mined strides, and at little distance by
Arthur, who was crimson with mortifca-
ton and chagrin.
"Tom, said Mr.. Van Twiller to
porter, chow much have you got of
L-11-44?"
"Four pieces, sir" replied Tom.
There's three down in the sub-base-
nent wot's never been taken out O.
and the piece up ere"
GLOW long have we had it, Tom ?"
aid the little man.
'I don't know, sir, said Tom. at
vas ere when came, and I've been ere
;oing on twenty years"
Mr.. Van Twiller looked at Arthur Sc :
erely, and said: :.
"You perhaps won't be so confident in
lture, sir" and calling Mr.. Shady, told y
i'm to take the lady's order.
Arthur walked back to his stand at =,
ne elevator; pondering as he went on !,
le mysterious resources of large houses,
nd the mean tricks of men dressed in =
little brief authority =,
As the afternoon waned and most of :
le statesmen were at their several desks " "
ltering up the days orders, Arthur il
pied plain, comfortable German wo-
an slowly toiling across the floor, fol- ia
wed by rheumatic spitz dog of fault aC
IS white and defiant eye. I'll
"Have you got some strong ingram st
rpet at fifty cents a yard ?" 70
Eyes, nam" said Arthur, with en- pr
gy, "step this way" He had noticed &c
here they were kept, and seizing full or
ece, tightly rolled and very solid, he to
we it a tremendous roll as he put it on ro
e floor, but seeing that it had clear va
urse before it, and would go too far, Gu
gave it a turn, so that it would be int
opped in its mad career by some goods We
III front. The carpet being BIZ
ry thin, the sudden jerk he gave it,
used it to rip right across, and he
,od transfxed with three yards of cot
! ingram waving in his hand like the :;
,urnful banner of some lost cause. sl, W,
e spitz barked furiously, and the hon Go
German woman gave him one look, CHI
/ turned to 60 as she said: phi
II don't want some of dot.
Arthur stood and watched her retreat Ou'
: form as it disappeared down the m II"
irs, and then was reused to a sense of io'
ludicrous position by hearing the el' 70
laughs of the different sales ol
n and porters who had been delighted WI
nesses Of his tragic effort to make A"'
first sale.-The Carpet Trade. "o'