The express package could wait. "I'm very sorry. I wish--" Here he broke off his speech to gaze pensively at the automobile.
"It's very annoying," said Miss Herron.
The station agent winced, as though she had laid a lash across his shoulders, and in his awkward fashion endeavored to apologize for his road's remissness. Like a tradesman reproved by his best customer, he promised Miss Herron that "it shouldn't happen again.
" It was quite in keeping with her character that she was graciously pleased to accept the man's excuses. And then the agent, fired into an expansive cheerfulness by her kindness, said that which won him the mysterious present he received the following Christmas.
"Why can't _you_ take Miss Herron over, Mr.
Fraser-hey? I guess that there autobile--"
"That--"
"Autobile," repeated the agent, sturdily. "She'll beat most o' the trains on _this_ road."
"The very thing!" He made a mental promise never to forget this man's kindness and tact.
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