"Isn't it great?" he said. "I found that in Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. I guess they had the only line, for I've never seen a duplicate of the pattern."
"Come now, Mr. Raymond," spoke up a young actor. "They don't have all the good things in Philadelphia. Chicago has anything that any city has."
"Most things, young man," laughed Raymond, "but not a stocking like this," and he surveyed it again critically. "No sir-ee, there's not another stocking like it in Chicago, I'll bet."
"What will you bet?" asked the young man quickly, with a laugh.
"Oh, anything," answered Raymond.
"Cigars for the crowd?"
"Certainly, and the best in the house," agreed the actor.
"You bet, Mr. Raymond, that there's not another stocking in Chicago like that one?"
"Yes."