"Oh, it ain't much, I reckon," he replied, and continued to look out of the window and laugh.
She went to the desk and removed her gloves and laid her rain-coat over a chair near by.

"Is this Mr.Harkless's chair ?" she asked, and, Fisbee answering that it was, she looked gravely at it for a moment, passed her hand gently over the back of it, and then, throwing the rain-cloak over another chair, said cheerily: "Do you know, I think the first thing for us to do will be to dust everything very carefully." "You remember I was confident she would know precisely where to begin ?" was Fisbee's earnest whisper in the willing ear of the long foreman.
"Not an instant's indecision, was there ?" "No, siree!" replied the other; and, as he went down to the press-room to hunt for a feather-duster which he thought might be found there, he collared Bud Tipworthy, who, not admitted to the conclave of his superiors, was whistling on the rainy stairway.

"You hustle and find that dust brush we used to have.

Bud," said Parker.

And presently, as they rummaged in the nooks and crannies about the machinery, he melted to his small assistant.