"Try me."
"Do you know who the Sewing Aid Association is?"
"No."
"It's John M. Gibbs! That's who it is!"
"Yell louder, Shearson. It may save you from apoplexy," advised McGuire Ellis with tender solicitude.
"And we lose every line of the Boston Store advertising, that I worked so hard to get back."
"That'll hurt," allowed Ellis.
"Hurt! It draws blood, that does. That Sewing Aid Association is Gibbs's scheme to supply the children's department of his store. Why couldn't you find out who you were hitting, Mr. Surtaine?" demanded Shearson pathetically, "before you went and mucksed everything up this way? See what comes of all this reform guff."
"Are you sure that John M. Gibbs is back of that sewing-girl ad?"
"Sure? Didn't he call me up this morning and raise the devil?"