Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24
HIS STOCK IN TRADE
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position gladdened Now. FRIDAYS were
cinched tightly to the Big Four: but the
young man dared not acknowledge it, SO con-
fcssed that all his evenings except Monday
were taken up with night school. Where
upon Miss Dunlap in order to keep abreast
of his mental development, decided to take
a correspondence course in Esperanto.
1t seemed also that his attentions toward
the Lackawanna were misconstrucd for the
very next time Phoebe told him goodnight in
the vestlbule she broke down and wept upon
his shoulder saving that his GOODNESS hurt
her. She confessed that ii rate clerk in the
freight department wanted to marry her
and she supposed she'd have to- because a
girl couldn't go on working all her life. could
she,
Following this. Miss Graft, of the c. &
f. L.. after red letter night at grand opera
succeeded by German pancake and Il stein
at the Edelwess, and a cab ride home. took
him gravely to task for his extravaganza
and limited that he ought to have an eco
nomical manager, one who loved music as
he did and whose tastes were simple and
Teutonic.
When the literary lady of the Northwest
ern declined trip to the White City, and
began to read Marion Crawford aloud to
him. Louis awoke to the gravity of the situa
ton.
But before he had worked the matter out
in his own mind, that rate clerk of whom
Miss Lackawanna had spoken dropped in at
Conner & Mathison's. and told Mitchell
with a degree of frmness that could not be
ignored that his attentions to Miss Phoebe
Snow were distasteful He did not state to
whom. Louis caller had all the physical
of "y,hi nd tod
few words. He had come to nail up vacate
notice, and announced simply that Miss
Snow Wednesday evenings were to be CON
sidered open time thereafter, and if Mitchell
elected to horn his way in it was hundred
to one shot that he'd have to give up solid
foods for a month or so.
Nor were the young mans troubles con
fined to the office Miss Harris, it seemed
had seen him with different lady each
night she and Mr.. Gross had been out and
had drawn her own conclusions; so when he
tried to talk to her she hared up and called
him dissipated rout. then threatened to
have the head bookkeeper give him thrcsh-
ing if he dared speak to her again.
NOV. the various apartments where
= Mitchell had been calling these last
months were opuentlv furnished with gifts
from the representatives of the various rail
way supply houses. each article being de
signed to cement in the mind Of the owner
a source of supply, which, coupled with price
and delivery would make for good sales ser
vice. He was surprised one day to receive
brass library lamp from the Santa Ft, the
initial destination of which had evidently
been changed. Then came a mission hall
clock in the original package, redirected in
the hand of Miss Graft of the c. & Z. !.
One day the Office boy from the Lackawanna
brought him a smoking set for which Miss
Phoebe Snow had no use.
The gifts piled up rapidly, many of them
bearing witness to the fact that their con
signment originated from Alitchcl's own
rivals for the railroad trade. Judging from
the quality and quantity of the stuff that
ricocheted from the Santa Fe, it was Miss
Dunlap's desire to present him with a whole
housekeeping equipment as quickly as pos
sible. His desk became loaded with brica
brac; his room at Mrs. Green's became filled
with nearly Wedgewood vases. candlcstcks,
and smoking sets; his collection of mission
hall clocks was one of the best in the city,
he had a row of tabourcts standing outside
his door like Turkish sentinels and ready to
trip him up when he came in at night
Miss Harris continued to ignore him, and
he learned with.a jealous pang that she was