N't no loafer. I'm in the cloak and suit business, and I would like to
speak to you a few words--something
very particular." The young lady turned in her chair. She was not
alarmed,
only surprised. "I hope you don't think

I am asking you anything out of the way," Abe said, without further
prelude; "but you got a dress on, lady, which I don't know how much
you paid for it, but if three hundred of these here--now--francs would
be any inducement I'd like
to buy it from you. Of course I wouldn't

ask you to take it off right now, but if you would leave it at the
clerk's desk here I could ca