CHAPTER VI
Waldstricker Makes a Proposal
While Tess was making her call at Longman's, Helen Young was entertaining her fiance, Ebenezer Waldstricker.
"I shall never be satisfied until Bishop is back in Auburn, Helen," said he, snipping the end from a long cigar.
The girl held up her needle and deftly shot the thread through the eye of it.
"He's sure to be, dear," she soothed. "Here's Deforrest!" She hesitated, laid down her work and stood up.
Professor Young shook hands with Waldstricker as his sister went to his side smilingly.
"Ebenezer wants me to go down to Skinner's with him," she explained. "Won't you come along, too, Forrie?"
The lawyer threw an interrogative glance at the churchman.