What if the fool resigns and throws all up in a huff?
There is no way to lure him out West then.

It would not do to have anything happen to him here.

And I'll ring in the Auld Lang Syne a bit, also." He smiled artfully as he read over his two telegrams before handing them to the waiting operator.

The anaemic girl was sadly disappointed in their tenor.

She had scented an intrigue in the presence of the dapper young lawyer with his distinctly clubman air.
"Pshaw! only business," she murmured, as she dashed her hand into the cash till for the change of a five-dollar bill.
But Arthur Ferris' resolute eyes recalled her to duty, as he impatiently said, "Repeat them both back to me, at Lafayette House, Philadelphia.