had transferred the order to her book, but had the letter pinned to the same page, so she sent it down and I gave it to the messenger."
"Have you not even the name and address of the person who ordered the dress?" asked Dick, very much cast down by the turn things had taken.
"The name we have—it was Miss L. W. Smith—but there was no address. It was an unusual thing for us to do, but as I told you, we have many customers who send us orders for dresses when they are away from town, and ladies are not always careful and exact about addresses. They are liable to fall into the error of thinking that if we have once made a garment for them, by merely signing their name we are sure to recall their address and histories. We keep very satisfactory books, which contain little histories of every garment we make, so we always refer to that
