Months had passed, and while Harry was as careful at some houses as before, Miss Stratton's was not among that number.

Harry had three 'customers on that street and he nightly walked only as far toward Miss Stratton's as would enable him to throw her paper and then, with two or three steps, throw another paper to the neighbor diagonally across the street.

A few more steps would have made Harry sure that Miss Stratton's paper fell every night squarely on the broad front path, but he "fired the paper at her," as he expressed it, and the result was Miss Stratton's otherwise unnecessary number of steps hunting after her paper.

Yet Harry would have scorned to cheat any customer.

He fulfilled the letter of the law.