Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-07-02

unnecessarily, but the old man was al
ways pleased to see her, no matter how
busy be happened to be. At first she
rarely looked at Peters, but when she
did flash one OF those quick glances of
hers at him poor Peters thought he had
the fever and aguc He understood the
symptoms later on
don't know how things come to
climax neither do the clerks, for that
matter, although they pretended to. Be-
SIDES they are divided ia their opinions.
so | think their collective surmises
amount to but ve7 little johnson claim
that it was done over the selopnone,
while Farnam says she came to;the Office
one day, her father was Izes there,
and proposed to Peters on tfespot. One
thing the clerks are unanirue.ls about,
and that is that Peters, left e himself,
would never have had the courage. Still.
too much attention must not be paid to
what the clerks say. What can they
/ know about II Iney are Ia anothe;
| room.
Peters knew that he had no right te
j think about that girl during busines,
hours. He was paid to think about the
old man and his affairs, which were not
nearly 50 Interesting. But Peters was
! conscientious and lie tried to do his duty
Nevertheless, the chances are tina. un.
consciously little Miss Sadie occupied
some small portion of his MUD that
should lr-ve been given up to the con
Germs of Bentnam Brothers & Co., and
her presence where she had not the
slightest business to be threw the rest Of
his mental machinery out of gear.
1t is very generally admitted now that
the sprightly Miss Sadie managed the
whole affair. No one who knew Peters
would ever have given him the credit of
proposing an elopement accuse him
Of it, rs Johnson puts it. She claimed
that wiile she could manage her father
all right enough up to certain point,
yet that in 'shis particular matter she pre-
ferred to negotiate with him after mar
riage rather than before. She had a
srea: deal OF the old mans shrewdness
had Sadie He used to say he would
not like to have her rs an opponent on
} wheat deal.
WE'LL to come to tue awful point where
Peters's methodicalness nearly upset the
t apple cart. The elopement was all set
, tied, Peters quaking most Of the time,
and he was to write her a letter giving
, an account of how arrangements were
progressing. 1t will hardly be credited
. and yet it is possible enough when you
think what a machiue a mAhodical man
gets to be--that Peters wrote this epistle
, to his girl on his desk and put it in the
e pile of letters that were to be copied into
e the old mans letter book The Office
boy picked up the heap at exactly the
usual hour. took them to the copying
0 press, wet the thin leaves and squeezed
them in; the love letter next to the one
J beginning:
DEAR SIR-Yours OF the 231 received
and contents noted
: Peters got the corner curled letter
9 still damp, and put them all in their righ
envelopes, and Sadie got hers IN due
time, but did not know enough abou
; business cores spondence to know TIA
: her. first lovc-letter was written in copy
q ing ink and had been through the press
! Next day when Old man Bentham wa
a looking over the leaves Of the previou
$ DAYS letters he suddenly began t
ehuckle to himself O.l Bentham hat
.e very comfortable, good -natured, wei
Sc to-do chucAle that was a pleasure t
hear Even Peters almost smiled as h
A. heard it.
y Peters"
De ''Ics, sir
* "Have you all the letters, Peters, tha
n these are the answers tor
Or "Certainly, sir
ii There is one | want to see, Peters.
II "What is the name, pleasel'
N Petty. did not know that We dea
or in this line of goods, Peters"
n "H. W Petty, sir
N 81 don't know the Initials Here's Il
letter"
va Peters was stricken. He was appalls
.-s -dumb-blind. The words 'Darlil
q Petty danced before his eyes. He fe
tie his hair beginning to rise. The book d
II not{all from his hand simply because
y. held it mechanlcal!y-met 0
ust Benthaul roarei, then closed tue door
that Tho cta~t-e vr-,,,t3 m hp3r his Tys