Through misunderstandings three of these copies had come back to him, the subscribers refusing to accept them; and so thorough had been his canvassing that there remained no other available customers for the saintly works.

So Peggy had kept them on a shelf in his "office" for several years, and now, when his eye chanced to light upon them, he gave a snort of triumph and pounced upon them eagerly.

Mr.Merrick was a newcomer.

Without doubt he could be induced to buy a copy of Radford's Lives.
An hour later McNutt was on his mission, the three copies, which had been carefully dusted, reclining on the buggy seat beside him.

Arrived at the Wegg farm, he drove up to the stile and alighted.
Louise was reading in the hammock, and merely glanced at the little man, who solemnly stumped around to the back door with the three red volumes tucked underneath his arm.