Chapter 14

Our trip through Indiana--How I fooled a telegraph operator--The old landlord sends recipe for cream biscuit--Our return to Ohio--Becoming agents for a new patent--Our valise stolen--Return to Ft. Wayne--Waiting six weeks for Patent-right papers--Busted--Staving off the washerwoman for five weeks--"The Kid" and 'de exchange act'--How the laundry woman got even with us--The landlord on the borrow--How we borrowed of him--Replenishing our wardrobe--Paying up the hotel bill.