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Indiscretions
of Archie
“I say, laddie!”
said Archie.
“Sir?” replied the desk-clerk alertly. All the
employes of the Hotel Cosmopolis were alert. It
was one of the things on which Mr. Daniel
Brewster, the proprietor, insisted. And as he
was always wandering about the lobby of the
hotel keeping a personal eye on affairs, it was
never safe to relax.
“I want to see the manager.”
“Is there anything I could do, sir?”
Archie looked at him doubtfully.
“Well, as a matter of fact, my dear old desk-clerk,”
he said, “I want to kick up a fearful row, and
it hardly seems fair to lug you into it. Why you,
I mean to say? The blighter whose head I want on
a charger is the bally manager.”
At this point a massive, grey-haired man, who
had been standing close by, gazing on the lobby
with an air of restrained severity, as if daring
it to start anything, joined in the conversation.
“I am the manager,” he said...
Three
men and a maid
Through the curtained windows of the
furnished apartment which Mrs. Horace Hignett
had rented for her stay in New York rays of
golden sunlight peeped in like the foremost
spies of some advancing army. It was a fine
summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in
the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine;
those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to
eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage
clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to
six. In other words, it was exactly eight; and
Mrs. Hignett acknowledged the fact by moving her
head on the pillow, opening her eyes, and
sitting up in bed. She always woke at eight
precisely.
Was this Mrs. Hignett the Mrs. Hignett, the
world-famous writer on Theosophy, the author of
"The Spreading Light," "What of the Morrow," and
all the rest of that well-known series? I'm glad
you asked me. Yes, she was. She had come over to
America on a lecturing tour...
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