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In the last ten years Cedar City had grown accustomed to seeing old Matthias Meier walk up and down the streets of their elm-shaded town, swinging his cane pompously. From his son's home down Washington Street to the corner of Main, turning down Main to the bank, speaking to every one along the way: "Good morning, Miss Smith," "How are you, Boze? ", nodding to those whose names he could not recall or did not know.
At the bank he would walk through the lobby into Carter's office. There they would discuss for a time the problems of the day,--to buy the Waterville bonds or not,--whether John Seliger's note could be renewed,--could Tessie Porter, the dressmaker, have a hundred- dollar loan on nothing much but an honest character. Back home toward noon, there to rest and read until about three when he would go down again for the last hour "to see how the day had gone."