Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-09
nothing to prevent making a small
amount Of cream in a large freezer"


The young man was impressed.
That's a good idea," he exclaimed.
Perhaps still larger one would be
even better, in case we wanted to
| give a regular party"
1t was necessary to head him of
again. NO" said Cornelia with de-
ciston. "If you give party you will
1 need caterer A freezer larger than
this would be in your way"
| That's right" agreed the custom
er, who for tractability left nothing
to be desired "I'll take it: what's
! the price?"
| Cornelia had no idea that business
success was SO simple matter. 1t
occurred to her that the ability of the
men who made fortunes had been
| greatly overestimated. Then sud
den startling thought broke in on her
self-congratulation. In her efforts to
ensnare her customer she had forgot
ten the price the locksmith had made.
"Thr-four and half" she said I'M
certainly.
The customer made no protest. He
/
and Cornelia made change from her
own little purse. Nov, I'll have this
sent, please" he was beginning.
"Oh!" Cornelia looked at him in
blank dismay. "1'm afraid can't
send it. Not before Saturday, any
way" she added, remembering the
grandson. II suppose, it would be too
heavy for you to carry, wouldn't it?"
There was appeal in the gaze she
| lifted to his She could not bear the
thought OF losing sale for so trifling
a reason. Luckily the customer was
still accommodating He protested
hastily that the freezer was not at all
heavy, and looked about him with an
air of man about to make purchases
with view to setting up housekeep-
ing. Cornelia felt it was time to as
sumo distant manner and she did so
with immediate effect. The customer
left the store, carrying his single pur-
chase in his hand.
When the locksmith returned grum-
bling, Cornelia announced her sale.
and he looked at her with reluctant
admiration. You done him out Of a
dollar" he observed. "That freezer
wasn't worth but $780," His sudden
accession Of respect for Cornelia re-
ceived an immediate check from the
dismay with which she received the
news.
Don't you think he will come
back?" she asked anxiously. "He was
such polite young man. can't bear
to think I've cheated him out of a
dollar"
The 1ocksmith grudgingly assented
that the customers return was pos
sible. He added darkly, "'Twould
have been a different thing If you'd
sold it dollar under price. We'd
never see hide or hair Of him again"
The customer did return within a
few days. He came in looking about
him in the same undecided manner
which had characterized him on his
previous visit, and yet he did not look
to be young man lacking in deter
mination. After he had purchased a
came to the point.
THE young lady who waited on me
before, your daughter, perhaps"
"She amt no daughter of mine,'
said the locksmith. Nor yet clerk
She was asking about you this very
day" he added calmly.
The soung man spun about.
What" he shouted
"She lives with her aunt at the
Rutherford apartments. She wanted
a key made for lock and she stayed
in the store while ! went to get the
impression. She overcharged you a
dollar for that freezer" explained the
locksmith, reluctantly. opening his
cash drawer, "and she asked II you
had been back to complain.
1t seemed that the young man did
not care about the dollar.
"See here" the locksmith said
"The young woman came down this
morning to bring the key. 1t stuck a
little, you know I've filed it off and
it's ready to take back, If you'd like
the job. promised her I'd send my
grandson when he came from school,
The young man thought it would be
a pity to trouble the grandson. He
said, with feeling, that growing boys
need all the playtime they could get
At the entrance of the Rutherford
apartments he met Cornelia coming
out.
"Oh!" cried Cornelia dropping hel
purse in her excitement. Have yor
come about that dollar?"
"Ive come to bring your key" saie
the young man, and gave it to her.
Explanations followed, and theI
came argument. Cornelia was mo-
sure that selling an ice cream freezer
to stranger constituted an introduc
ton. The young man, on the othel
hand, was positive about it.
But your wife?" Cornelia limited
, delicately.
+ The young man blushed. "You in
! vented the wife and held my tongue
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