Middletown transcript., 1894-02-17

| the peg.
1t annoyed him at once. It always
does annoy a business man to have
things irregular. He fdgeted in his
chair. 1t was too bad. Nobody could
be depended on, ard here were several
letters to be answered. He called
Swain in.
"Where is that young woman?"
Swain started little, as if he felt
guilty of having abducted her, and
said: "Do you want a typewriter, sir?
Here's Wallace and Durant and Clapp,
any one of 'em can"-
And Cline shouted, Nonsense.
Shut the door,
The next day when she came he re-
primanded her fercely. ut annoyed
me very much," he said from his chair
without looking around. "You should
have sent me word. depended on you.
It's very irregular and unbusiness
like"
She turned around and looked and
looked at him in her meek way. "My
mother is dying, she said. have neg
lected her to day so as not to disap-
point you."
His asto nishment twisted him
round in his chair, and he came plump
up against the agates, swimming in
some kind of light he had never seen
before.
"Confound it, Miss Chalceyl''
he said, jumping up. ''What do you
mean by having mother i'll and II
telling me? What do YOU mean by
coming here today? Will you never
get any business ideas in your head?
told you thls room was to be conf
Dental. Do you call it confidential to
act in this matter. I'm surprised, Miss
Chalcey. I'm hurt"
He took down the sailor hat. "YOu
are to go back to your mother at once.
He opened the door. "Here, Swain
get hansom."
1t was about week after this. The
room had half a ton of letters in it.
Cline used to come, look at the peg
and 60 away again. Then the sailor
hat re-appeared.
Miss Chalcey was there waiting; so
was her little lunch that she had al |
ways ate when Cline and Wallace went
out to- swell restaurant, and on Cline's |
desk was tiny bunch of violets.
He shook hands with her, congratu-
lated her on her mothers recovery and |
said;"Pshaw, don't mention it my child
| am about as kind as the average busi-
ness man no-more, no less. We've
got terrible lot of business here.''
Cline was in particular good spirits
that morning. 1t was so comforta-
BILE, don't you know, to have the Office
routine 60 on in it's regular business
like way to hear the click of the in
strument, to get side glimpses of the
two white wrists dancing a gallopade,
to know that the sailor hat was
covering up that confounded bronza
peg.
1t went on for week, with little
bunch of violets every morning on his
desk, which he always put in his but
tonhole when he went out to lunch.
There were two days when he hadn't
a pin and she had, and so she fas-
tened them on for him.
Then the whole affhir came to a sud-
den stop. These things always do in
real life.
1t was OH Monday morning. She
had hung up her hat and busted her
machine when Cline said, with hor-
rible sad expression of countena nee:
"MissChalcey, you've been faithful
and efficacious secretary, land I'm sorry
I've got to loose you, but the fact is
I've found the woman l want, and of
course do not need you any more"
She was looking at him dreamily, as
if size wondered where the paragon
came from that satisfied him.
YES" he said, ''strange as it may
sound, I've actually picked out the
woman who is TO be my wife, and
shall not want a secretary, we've had
very pleasant time here together
havn't we?''
Eyes, SIR"
"And you remember all the qualities
that 1 was fool enough to expect in
one womanl"
Eyes, sir,''
swell, I've found most of them.n
''I'm very glad. sir"
do you think Miss Chalcey, from
what you know of me that she will
have me if ask herp"
"Yes, sir"
"YOu truly think so on business
principlesP"
"Yes, SIR"
"Then. by Jove, I'll marry her. You
can consider your self discharged, Miss
Chalcey-but Nellie will you marry
meP"
The only unbsiness like thing that
they did was to both try to look out
the ridiculous little window pane at
the same time and no two business
people could do that simultaneously