"And, Unavella, if you please, you might say I am not receiving callers this afternoon.

but, contrary to the habit of Little Rivers hospitality, he did not hasten to meet his caller, and any keenness of anticipation which he may have felt was well masked.

" He returned to his view from the window, and was hating it with all his heart when a stout knuckling on his door announced his callers.

But one day he had risen with some formality to usher a formal caller to the-door, when, to his slight amazement and my secret delight, his chairan easy-chair of good proportionsdeliberately jumped up and hopped after him across the room.

"I'm so glad to see you," said Patty, welcoming her callers.

Skeelty interrupted his task of running up columns of impressive figures to ask his callers to be seated, and opened the interview with characteristic abruptness.

They'd ask me questions, too; and I'd have you consider, Miss Dorothea, that though not shaken down to it yetnot, as you might say, in a state to expect callers or make them properly welcomeI'm a respectable married woman.

" "Did you, the friends of Mr. Crane, consider it the act of gentlemen for several to rush in and attack one man?" That left the callers rather breathless.

" "It's queer, then, how Jetson came to give you such a nasty trip," observed another caller.

The hunchback got up from his desk, took the invention out of its box, and carefully inspected it, asking Allerdyke a few shrewd questions about the thing's possibilities which showed the caller that he knew what he was talking about.

“You didn’t tell the callers where you expected to find me, did you?”

I've got a caller.

I gave my callers to understand that, and I think they respect my position.

" Mrs. Taine went forward to greet the caller; saying as she gave him her hand, "You arrived just in time, Mr. Lagrange; Edward and I were discussing your latest book.

CHAPTER XXIII "BAGGED," AND NO MISTAKE "Plebes Flint and Austin are having a good many callers," remarked Dave Darrin, halting by the door of quarters before he and Dan entered.

" An Irishman once lined up his family of seven giant-like sons and invited his caller to take a look at them.

"I am not," I assured my small caller.

One glance convinced her caller of two thingsviz., that his office-boy did not care much for peaches, and that the Santa Fé purchasing agent had a jealous wife.

This man, a friend, recognizing the nature of George Henry's struggle, had never sought paymenthad, in fact, when the debtor had gone to him, apologetically and explaining, objected to the intrusion and objurgated the caller in violent language of the lovingly profane sort.

Conrad Lagrangethinking of Sibyl Andrés and that letter which he had left on the gatefrom under his brows, watched their caller closely; the while he filled with painstaking care his brier pipe.

"What do you think?" queried the caller in the same mild voice.

" A little old lady, dressed in shabby black silk, looked up from the corner of the sofa next the window, when Peter entered the drawing-room at Hewelscourt, after the usual delay, apologies, and barking of dogs which attends the morning caller at the front door of the average country house.

Show the lady in, Joe." Crewe regarded his caller keenly as Joe ushered her in, placed a chair for her, and went out, closing the door noiselessly behind him.

Mr. Vickers repelled all callers with acrimonious impartiality, but Selina, after a long argument with a lady subaltern of the Salvation Army, during which the methods and bonnets of that organization were hotly assailed, so far relented as to present her with twopence on account.

Then there is the actual personal labor of helping to get the paper to press each week, choosing from a limited supply suitable illustrations, writing some "copy," writing heads, making up, dictating and signing hundreds of letters each week, seeing all callers who need to be seen, and constantly directing and overseeing to keep matters of a thousand and one details ship-shape and accurate.