THE OPEN ARMS
People passing in their cars saw them, and vaguely thought it must be the name of a book. They had better get it. Other people would have got it. It couldn't be a medicine nor anything to eat, and was probably a religious novel. Novels about feet or arms were usually religious. A few considered it sounded a little improper, and as though the book, far from being religious, would not be altogether nice; but only very proper people who distrusted everything, even arms took this view.
After a week the same advertisements appeared with three lines added:
THE OPEN ARMS
YES
BUT
WHY? WHERE? WHAT?
and then ten days after that came fresh ones:
THE OPEN ARMS
WILL OPEN
WIDE
On November 20th at Four P.M.