The Disagreeable Woman

advantage elsewhere, but I was curious to see this great emporium. Years before, I had heard of it in my coun

ere was no Macy, that the original proprietor had vanished from the stage and left his famous shop in[Pg 62] charge of men of alien race and name. Macy had become nom

ceipts-and began to walk slowly about the store, taking a leisurely survey o

nd, all at once I heard my name

Fen

ounter I saw the young woman from Macy's, whose

d, and I instantly w

dies-I [Pg 63]believe that the genteel designation of this class-with

some of your hand

something nic

swered. "It doesn't matter muc

a bachelor," said Ruth,

ed in my profession before I

cents, Dr. Fenwick," said R

can go a li

fteen. They are n

ry," I said, by way of ex

ing the handkerchiefs and a fifty cent piece to the cashier. This le

f department?" I remarked, by

es

ou li

ent. That is up-stairs, on the se

criticise, however, only I wondered mildly how it happened th

ou are fond

have read co

for ins

Gunmaker of Moscow, by Sylvanus Cobb,[Pg 65] and Poe's Tales, but I d

are quite

s in the book department. A friend of mine-Mary Ann Toner

me in here, or rather t

ets who wrote for the story papers who came in often. She ha

emember h

disre

rdly accounted correct, but I suspected that if I undertook

g

d a chance to get into

e when there is a vacancy. Do you o

my firs

ght everybody came to Macy

aid I, looking about and no

soon," said Ruth, as she t

Canby. And it won't be a

ng a bachelor, in letting my eyes rest complacently upon her rustic charms. But I was heart-proof so far as Ruth was[Pg 67] concerned, I could not think of seeking a litery wife. No, she was m

otherwise, perhaps Ruth would have made me a better wife than some graduate of a fashionable young ladies' seminary with her smattering of French, and superficial knowledge of the various ologies taught in high-class sc

g

at supper, Miss Canby s

sed with your handke

casion to use them

sked Prof. Poppendorf,

d to see me at Mac

ned a little, as if n

call upon you at Macy's

buy articles," said Ru

ou sell, M

hiefs, Pr

s?" and he pulled out a l

ly white linen

ed ones, but I might come

g

to show you what

ad a good German appetite which never failed. He seldom talked much

isagreeable Woman, and Ruth Canby on the other. Next to Ruth sat the Pro

little to say for himself. Mrs. Wyman, however, kept plying him with questions and remarks, and did her best t

g

, how I long to visit It

nice," he sa

ely. Have you ever se

ignora, ma

arming, i

ra, it is

adies, I have hear

American la

w gratifying! When do you

t know-s

for a long time. We s

ora is ve

d the widow. Though several years his senior, it looked as if she