Mrs. H. Harrison Wells's Shoes
—to his complete amazement—that Mrs. H. Harrison Wells had ordered twenty extra copies of the paper from the counting-rooms. No one could tell, of course, how many others she had bought at the news-stands. She could not have been very indignant.
The reporter told himself he ought to be glad; he did not quite see why he felt so disgusted. Ought he not to be pleased? For she had not cut him purposely, as he afterwards learned, and wanted to be interviewed all along, and she thought his writing very clever. Doubtless, her friends were pleased, too, for they smiled and said: "What won't the woman do next to show off those feet?"
Linton heard this from Lawrence at a class smoker the following evening. The young lawyer thanked him sincerely for the kind mention of him as Mrs. Wells's counsel, and asked if Linton did not think it ought to help bring in some more business from her set. Linton said he thought so.
Even the shoemaker, Linton discovered, was rather pleased at seeing his name in the paper, although it did show him in a bad
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