Evening star., 1927-11-14

Louise. II will make n regular
Sardbery idea-rair. mud. city park
ing rules. shabby man with mud
stained feet. It'n he great
I.ouise's idea about originality was
checked before she spoke it. She hur-
ried to the back of the shop among
the travel books and picked out
quickly number OF volumes. placing
them into two neat piles. These piles
she took to the front Of the shop and
laid them near the door.
What did you do? Hunt up what
that shabby fellow wanted He'll
never he hack again. After he paid
his fine. I'll imagine he had hardly
enough money left To buy his gaso-
line home again" said Anice sarcasti-
cally.
Hell he hack and he won't want
to wait" returned Louise. "He was in
terrific hurry. He's not been IN
here before since I've been here and
that's the way to build up business
he o,,ick and find what they need.
."rhat's right" said Mr.. Cox unex.
peciedIy. That's what he wanted.
Courtesy and service. IL Miss Louise
keeps this up we'll need third clerk
shortly, and probably after that weh
need To rent another floor. He was
smiling and joking, but underneath IL
all there was serious vein thaC
Louise could not overlook. They had
not known that he was near them De-
fore he had spoken.
They had all hardly finished talk
ing when the door again burst open
and the shabby man entered.
Here they are. on this counter.
Louise said without any preliminary.
The man turned each pile over ana
scanned the names on the backs has.
tiiy. who put these books together?
he dema nded.
II put them together" remarked
Louise quietly.
"And what was the basis of sepas
rating them into two piles" he asked
curtIy. "You have A Loiterer in Lon
dom y. London Inns and Taverns,' An
lent London Churches The Alps. the
Danube and the Near East Florence
and Northern Tuscany Eternal
Rome The Churches OF Rome.
Along the Pyrenees.; all OK those IN
one pile together. and then in ms
other pile you have. London Restau'
| rants The Lure Of the Riviera, HIS
| toric streets of I.ondon'-what is your
basis of division?"
I.ouise colored. I" she evaded.
'Iplease he quick. young lady.
| You We hooks on eating in both piles
so evidently YOU didn't divide accord
| inc to subjects-what did you-
! According to the price or the
hool;s" she cut in suddenly in low
tones.
price, he repeated in amazement.
Price? What has price to do with
it,"
| Louise made no reply. Then smile
of amusement broke over his face ana
| he chuckled. At the first sound OF ms
! own chuckle he leaned up against the
counter and all need for haste seemed
to have disappeared with the laugn:
"I-say, that's really good. isn't "
I always supposed that yOSr system
was to make a fellow spend all he
had and then give a mortgage on
the dear old homestead for more
before you let him out OF your
clutches. You-say, tell me this:
How did you get these books together
so quickly? Are they grouped on ths
shelves according to countries?
mo, not quite" answered Louise.
Most of them are by the authors
names-al lphabetically-an
Then how did you get them to-
gether so quickly?" he interrupted.
81 have a set OF maps. empty out.
line maps. on which l have written in
the names of hooks and their authors.
Then when some one Is in great
| hurry l don't have to hunt around
the shelves. / look at my map and in
an instant / can get together all the
books we have on the subject
He stared at her aGmiringly- say,
| do YOU want n Jnll? It'tl only be about
a halliday job. becausesI don't work
any more than that myself but were
right on the edge OF a college town
| when we're not travelling, and YOU
could be-well. sort of librarian. I've
| more than 5000 books, but there's
never been a minute to catalogue
| them. and sometimes I've bought five
or six copies of the same book just
! because / hadn't them in any kind or
order. Ii you want a job and don't
! mind a farm
Louise WAS breathing quickly. "A
farm" she repeated.
He nodded. Yes. good farm.
/ fine poultry and bioOded dogs. We RAD
private electrc.iight plant that
wasn't much good. but the high line
has passed the place now and we have
good light"
Louise felt bewillered. This man
though, so rapidly and expressed. evi.
IDENTIFY. only part of each thought.
But she could follow his leaping ideas
to certain extent. I'D love the coun.
try" she said slowly. ''but l can't
leave my sister. you see. She's had
breakdown"
Can she type:" asked the man
abruptly.
Louise nodded. Expert" she said
shortly.
We'll. what luck"' the man fairly
exploded. III have the lady stop in
and make arrangements with you
both-I never know much about such
things, YOU see"
THE lady," repeated Louise
II always call her the lady-just a
joke. YOU see. Her grandparents were
lord and lady. and so / tease her
about il that way. My wife, you
know. Mrs. Rigsheimer."
II was a week later that Louise went
into the shop with her sister Julia.
Its n wonderful place" she told
Anice. Hes that great writer-Rigs-
heimer-and his wife is a darling.
I'm to so 70 college for a half day
each day and do the library work the
other half. lie wants stuff looked up
all the time. and I'm making maps and
an index and everything. And they
have acres and acres Of Ia nd but they
don't keep any head gardener-Mrs.
lsigsheimer plans all OF the gardens.
and she and Julia have had wonderful
plans laid out these last few days. l.
oh. l just can't thank you enough. MIR.
Cox"
~" repeated Mr.. Cox grufiy.
What did l do? Nothing. I didn't
know that he was RicSheimer when
he came in. had no idea OF it. When
| put that advertisement i'm the paper
| purposely put the wrong address
in"