Again we welcome him to our midst." This was headed, "Eliph' Hewlitt Now a Citizen of Kilo!" and it was all the introduction the little book agent needed--except to Miss Sally.
When se read it she turned pale.

A book agent living in the very town was more than she could bear.
But there was another item of news that Eliph' left with T.J.that went into the same issue of the TIMES.

This stated that Mrs.Smith, of New York, and Miss Susan Bell were visiting Miss Sally Briggs, and T.J.had completed the slight information given him by Eliph' by a call at Miss Sally's.

It was after Eliph' had told T.J.that he meant to make his home in Kilo that the enterprising editor suggested Doc Weaver's as a good boarding place, and the little book agent was glad enough to settle himself in a real home, for the Kilo Hotel was hardly more than an annex to the liver, feed and sale stable part of Jim Wilkins' business, and any man with half an eye could see that it was not, as a home for men, to be compared to the comfort with the stable, as a home for horses.

Jim would have been the last man in Kilo to expect a visitor to remain in the Kilo Hotel more than two days.