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Kilo

CHAPTER XI
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He was more pleased when Eliph' pulled a long purse from his pocket, and paid for one insertion of the advertisement and for the subscription.

The editor pulled a pad of paper toward himself, and wrote hastily, while Eliph' briefly mentioned facts.

When the next number of the TIMES appeared there was a well-displayed advertisement of Jarby's Encyclopedia, with Eliph' Hewlitt mentioned as agent, but more important to Eliph' was the "local item" that stood at the very top of the local column.
"We are glad to announce that Kilo has secured as a citizen Eliph' Hewlitt, a man whose work in behalf of good literature entitles him to the highest praise.

Mr.Hewlitt, who intends to make his home with us permanently, is representative of the celebrated work, Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, published by Jarby & Goss, Greater New York, and his travels in behalf of that work have taken him to all parts of the nation.

To have a man of such extensive travel decide to make Kilo his home is an honor.
Mr.Hewlitt says that in all his travels he never found a town more up-to-date and progressive for its size than our own little burg.


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