I ran to the door,
and flung it open. "You laugh!" I shouted, shaking my fist at him,
standing halfway up the stairs, "you laugh now, but wait--" And
then I got the grip of my temper and slammed the door in my turn.
All the same, in that hour it was settled that I was to be a
reporter. I knew it as I went out into the street.
CHAPTER V
I GO INTO BUSINESS, HEADLONG
Somewhat suddenly and quite unexpectedly, a business career opened
for me that winter. Once I had tried to crowd into it uninvited,
but the result was not good. It was when I had observed that, for
the want of the window reflectors which were much in use in the
old country, American ladies were at a disadvantage in their homes
in not being able to make out undesirable company at a distance,
themselves unseen, and conveniently forgetting that they were "in."
This civilizing agency I set about supplying forthwith. I made
a model and took it to a Yankee business man, to whom I explained
its use. He listened attentively, took the model, and said he had
a good mind to have me locked up for infringing the patent laws
of other lands; but because I had sinned from ignorance he would
refrain.
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