[Kilo by Ellis Parker Butler]@TWC D-Link bookKilo CHAPTER IV 2/22
About town he used to show them with a great deal of pride, and openly boasted of their cost and beauty.
On Sunday he wore them all day. Whenever Eliph' Hewlitt drove into a town he looked about with a seeing eye, for he had learned to judge the capacity of a place for Jarby's Encyclopedia by the appearance of the town, but as he drove into Kilo he was more than usually interested.
If this was the home of Miss Sally Briggs, it followed that when he had completed his courtship, and had won her affections and held them, it would be his home, also, and he was curious to see whether it was a town he would like or not like.
He liked it.
It was a real American town, and it looked like a good business town, because there could be no possible reason for people building a town on that particular situation unless it was for business. The town was built on a flat space, and the country was flat on all sides of it.
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