"I think," she said gravely, but with a twinkle in her eye, "you had better take off your vest and let me fasten those buttons with wires, or else you'll be bursting them, through swelling with pride!"
CHAPTER XVI
A PROPER USE FOR EYES
I met Barlow one morning taking his "constitutional." While I was working for him we fellows always used to laugh at his plan of going for a walk every day for fifteen or twenty minutes. We used to think it was a freak notion of his for keeping in health.
Barlow shook hands with me and asked me how business was going. I told him that sales were picking up very slowly. Then he asked me:
"And how is friend Stigler affecting you now?"
I told him about the scheme I had been working on Stigler.
"But," I concluded, "I don't bother much with thinking about him now."
"That's excellent!" he exclaimed. "He isn't doing any too well, I know, and he has some time on his hands to talk. You forget him as much as possible and just go ahead and 'saw wood.'"
"That's what I'm trying to do. But I'm still keeping up that plan of marking down the goods in the window for an hour in the morning until he cuts his goods."