But the sidewalks were neatly shoveled and swept clean, as became the eminently respectable part of the city where Miss Terry lived.
A thaw which stripped the snow from the sidewalks; a ringing iron night when the lakes could be heard booming; a clear roistering morning.
"I may be an infidel, Mr. Curtis," replied the other, quickly; "but I never paid two hundred dollars to Slattery so that the police would let me block the sidewalks of the town."