The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-23
CLERKS IN love arc requested by :
the management not to think Of
the adored object between TIC
holrG OF nine o. n. and six p. U.
.'BY ORDER"

Now George Peters was q very, cery
mcthodical person for so young n man
When letter got into Peters hands it
went through certain routine and the
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 o regularity
emulate, and even that, tho clerks said,
was not as regular as Peters. for they
claimed it was always fnst in the morn
ing und mighty slow in pointing. TO six
o'clock.
1t is little wonder, then, that Peters
stood high In the confidence Of old man
Benthan. Bentham was Eentham
brothers G Co. There were no broth
ers and no conpany-thnt was merely
the frEl name-it was ell Bcnthara.
Perhaps there once were brothers and
perhaps there was once company,
but that is oil ancient history, anyhow,
and has nothing to do with this strictly
modern story. And it did not interfere
with the fact that old Bentham's narnc
was a lovely thing to huve at the bot
tom Of o largo check.
The clerks never spcculated ON the
probable effect of love on Peters, be-
cause it never occurred to them that
such thing as Peters falling in love was
within the bounds of possibility. Love,
they argued, was not an article that
can be dockcted and ticketed and re-
ferred back for further Information,
and entered in the day book and posted
on the debit or credit side OF ledger,
so what on earth could Peters do with it
if he had It? Manifestly nothing. II
they hnd known as much about human
nature as you or l. they would have
surmiAed that when Peters did fall It
was time TO stand from under.
And who should Peters fall In love
with but tho very woman Of all others
whom he ought never have given q
thought. .to-in other wosds, pretty, lit
tie Miss Sadie Bentham. II You please.
It made Peters himself. cold when he
thought Of II, for he knew he had tust
as much chance Of getting the moon or
the laureateship as tho consent Of old
man Bentham. The clerks always said
that It was Miss Sadie who fell in love
with Peters, principally, ] suppose, be-
cause she should have known better,
and think myselfthere Is something to
be said for that view Vi the matter.
Anyhow, she came to her fathers place
of business very often and apparently
very unnecessarily, but the old man
was always pleased to SEQ her, no mat
tor how busy he happened to be. At
first she rarely looked at Peters, but
- A. - tt.
glances OF hers At him poor Peters
thought he had the fever and ague. He
understood the symptoms later on.
don't know how things came 10 .
climax; neither do the clerks. for that
matter, although they pretend to. Be-
sides, they are divided in their opinions,
so y think their collective surtnises
amount 70 but very little. johnson
claims that II was done over the tele
phone, while Fsrnam says she came
to the odice one day when her father
was not there and proposed 70 Peters on
the spot One thing the clerks are
unanimous about, and that Is that Pc
ters, left to himself, would never have
bad the courage. Still too much at
tention must not be paid to what tho
clerks say. What can they know about
It? They are in another room.
Peters knew that he bad no right to
think about that girl during business
hours. He was paid to think about the
old man and his affairs, which were not
nearly 50 interesting. But Peters was
conscientious, and he tried to do his
duty. Nevertheless, the chances arc
that unconsciously little Miss Sadie oc-
cupied some small portion of his mind
that should have been given up to the
concerns OF Bentham Bros & Co., and
her presence where she had not the
slightest business TO be threw the rest
OF his mental machinery out Of gear.