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But her love for him was very great and she was eager to give him the benefit of the doubt, even while her whole sentience shrieked his guilt. The next morning she called a bellboy and handed him a bank note upon which lay a slip of paper. "Find out for me, please," she said, with a forced smile, "the hotel where these two friends of mine are registered, without letting them know.
Speranza, white-faced and furiously gesticulative, commanded the astonished bellboy to put that "Bah! pig-idiot!" out into the hall and air the room immediately afterward. Having, as he considered, satisfactorily attended to the presumptuous lover, Captain Zelotes returned to the school and to what he believed would be the comparatively easy task, the bringing of his daughter to reason.
She had gone to the door to answer a knock, and got dizzy and remembered nothing more. What became of the knocker? She didn't know. Frost inquired at the office. A bellboy was found who said he had taken up a card in an envelope given him by a young feller who "seemed kind o' sick. Mrs. Frost took it and flopped," and a chambermaid ran in to her, and then hurried for the doctor.
Grace followed her without a moment's hesitation, ordering Leary to wait. The woman hurried up to the desk and, taking a blank card from it, scribbled a few words upon it in pencil, and handed it to the clerk. Grace was unable to hear what she said to him, but the man nodded, and handed the card to a bellboy. The woman sat down in a nearby chair.
Sleepily the bellboy lifted the battered kitbag and led the way to the elevator. "Bawth!" said the night clerk, as the elevator door slithered to the latch. "Bawth! The old dear!" He returned to his chair, hoping that he would not be disturbed again until he was relieved. What do we care, so long as we don't know? What's the stranger to us but a fleeting shadow?
She nodded politely as she moved away, following the bellboy who had the key of her rooms, and as she reached the lift, something made her glance back. The sombrero was on the dark head again, and the head was bent over the hotel register, where Mrs. May had written her name. The man was either looking at that or writing his own. Angela inclined to the latter supposition.
By the way, how did it happen? How do you happen to be here?" "It seems that at about a quarter to ten Mr. Bristow called the downstairs operator and asked her to send a bellboy to his room, number seven-seventeen. When the boy came in here, Mr. Bristow was lying across the foot of his bed, pressing to his mouth a towel that was half-saturated with blood.
Ringing a bell, she asked for a telegraph form and hurriedly filling it up, said to the waiting lad, "Take this down to the office." The lad wore a smart uniform and was called a page, but he had the pertness that generally marks the bellboy in Western hotels. "Certainly, miss. But I reckon I'll be wanted when the stranger who's coming up the road gets here.
And, of course, as usual, nobody could explain it to Vi's satisfaction. "I know a riddle!" cried Laddie, after a moment. "What looks like a boy, but bounces like a rubber ball? Why! A bellboy!" And he was highly delighted at this and went around telling everybody his new riddle. In the morning Mr. Frane Armatage appeared at the hotel and was shown up to the Bunker rooms. Mr.
"But I can find my way all right. I know the number of the room. No! you needn't take my bag. I can carry it my self!" "There he is!" laughed Tom, opening the door to disclose the eccentric gentleman himself, struggling to keep possession of his valise against the importunities of a bellboy. "Ah, Tom Mr. Titus! Glad to see you!" exclaimed Mr. Damon.
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