The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-12-05

Balu Dy various wise men DetOfe tne
present writer manipulated the sentence
on his typewriting machine,
1t is remarkable that the I. P. (mean-
ing the tender passion) should have
turned the methodical mans methodic-
alness to his undoing, as nearly hap
pened in the case of Mr.. George Peters.
Love should have nothing to do with
man during business hours. There ought
to be a placard to this effect hanging up
in all well regulated business houses:
{: Clerks in love are requested by the
management not to think of tho .dor0d
: object between tho hours of Ga. IN aud
: p. m. By tEcder.
Now George Peters was a very me
Ithodical person for so young o man.
When a letter got into Peters hands il
went through certain routine, and tho
answer departed from him to the copy
ing book, and from the copying book TO
the envelope, and the envelope, letter
and all, with Enclosures marked, went
into the letter box with regularity that
nothing but the Office clock could emu-
late, and even that, the clerks said, was
not as regular as Peters, for they claimed
it was always fast i'll the morning and
mighty slow in pointing to O'Clock.
1t is little wonder, then, that Peters
stood so high in the confidence of oil
man Bentham. Bcntham was Beuth.u.t
Bros. d Co. There We're no brother,
and no compauy-that was merely thu
firm name-it was all Bentham. Per
haps there once We're brothers and per
haps there was once company, b.
that is all ancient history anyhow, an
has nothing to do with this strictly moi.
ern story. And it did not interfere with
the fact that old Benthams name was a
lovely thing 10 have at the bottom OF ;t
large check
/ The clerks never speculated on the
probable effect of love on Peters because
it never occurred to them that such
thing as Peters falling in love WAS with
in the bounds of possibility, Love, the
argued, was not an article that can be-
docketed and ticbeted and referred back
for further information and entered in
the daybook and posted ON ne debit Il
credit side Of a ledger, so what on eartj
could Peters do with il il he bad II:
Manifestly nothing If they lad lsnowA
rs much about human na3 nc as you or
p they would have su,mi7ed that whga
Peters dld fail it was tune to stand from
under.
And who should Peters fail in low
with but the very woman Of al other
whom he ought never have given u
thought TON other words. pretty little
Miss Sadie BenthaIn, if You please. II
made Peters himself cold when he
thought Of it, for he knew he had lust
as much Glance Of getting the moon or
the laureateship as the consent of Old
man Bcntha.n. The clcrRs always suitl
. that it was Miss Sadie who fell in love
with Peters, principally, suppose, be-
cause she should havo known better,
J and | think myaelf there Is something
to be said for that view Of the matter.
Anyhow she came to her fathers place
of business very often aud apparently
: very unnecessarily, but the old man was
I always pleased TO see her, no matter how
:, busy he happened to be. At first she
| rarely looked at Peters, but when She
did flash one of those quick chances OF
hers at him poor Peters tnndght lie had
the fever and ague. He understood the
!; symptoms later on.
r don't know how things came to q
r, climax; neither do the clerks, for that
matter, although they pretend to. BE,
: sides, they are divided in tl4oil opinions
9 so think their collective sur,nise.
amount to but very LITTLE. johnson
: claims that it Was done over tha tele
: phone, while Furnam SAYS she came I
the office one day whcn her father wa.
not there and proposed to Peters on the
, spot. One thing Tile clerks are unaui
1Imous about, and that is t,at Peters lcf
to himself would never have had lii,
Z courage. Still too much attention mus
r not be paid to what the clerks say. VIVA
can they know about it? Thcy are il
another room.
q Peters know that he had no right t
think about that girl during business
} hours. He was paid to tllini: about til,
. old man and his affairs, which were no
y nearly so interesting. But Peters wa
conscientious, and he tried 10 do HI
duty. Nevertheless the chances ar,
t that unconsciously littlc Kiss Sadie occu
:, pied some small portion Of his MIN
that should have been given up to til,
}. concerns Of Bentham Bros u Co. an,
d her presence There Size had not tn
1 slightest business TO be threw the rest .
y his mental machinery out Of gear.
u 1t is very generally admitted now tina
the sprightly Miss Sadie managed til
l.. n u. a. 4.