The ceaseless activity of the shop reassured them.

One by one the customers arrived.

Numbers bred numbers, and in a week a rush had set in.

It became the fashion on the Road to loll in the shop, carelessly reading the papers for all the world to see, while your boots were being mended.

On Saturday for the first time Jonah turned a profit, and the battle was won.
Among the later arrivals Jonah noticed with satisfaction some of Paasch's best customers, and every week, with an apologetic smile, another handed in his boots for repair.