4/21 The jackets are your only chance." "If I must, suppose I must, then," replied Mrs.Gaston to this, in a desponding tone. "So let me have a couple of them." The salesman took from a shelf two dark, heavy cloth jackets, cut out, and tied up in separate bundles with a strip of the fabric from which they had been taken. As he handed them, to the woman he said-- "Remember, now, these are to be made extra nice." "You shall have no cause of complaint--depend upon that, Michael. He's gone out to Roxbury to see about some houses he is putting up there." "You can pay me for them pantys, I suppose ?" "No. I never settle any bills in his absence." "But it's a very small matter, Michael. |