It was still early, and beautiful Ciscasset was not yet really astir. Few women were to be seen on the streets,--only a score of shop-girls hurrying to their work,--but men abounded. Clerks were going to their desks and counters, and early rising business men to their offices. Market-men swarmed in from the country in order to be the first to sell their produce in the prosperous little town with the Indian name.