Just then the guard called out, “Forty-second Street!” and a man whom I had not noticed before, but who wore an air of authority, and who sat next to Buffum, rose and, touching him on the arm, said, “Come.”

And before I could get the inventor’s address he had left the train.

But I fancy that

Burgess Buffum, Esq.,
Bloomingdale,

will reach him.


AT THE LITERARY COUNTER