“There’s nothing else except these girdles that a drummer palmed off on me. They’re jest elastic, that’s all. They don’t give a girl no figger.”

“H-m! But they’re a long way from armor-plate. I’ll take one.”

“What size?”

“How do they run? Large, small, and medium?”

“By inches.”

“Make it something extra medium in inches.”

“Most of ’em wish they could wear twenty-one.”

“Twenty-one it is.”

The proprietor grinned.

“But if that’s too small—”