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The new President had been but a few months in office, when Guiteau followed him into the railway station at Washington, and, as he entered the waiting-room, shot him in the back. The President fell wounded, but not unconscious. In great pain, he still remembered his loved ones, and moaned, "My poor wife and children." Then he dictated a message to his wife.
"The 'Pelican'? that's a paper you'll find in every dentist's waiting-room; dentists are the first puffists in the world! How many teeth do you suppose are daily pulled in Paris?" "Come, come, nonsense," said Thuillier, who proceeded to mark out certain names, reducing the whole number present to fourteen. "If one falls off we shall be thirteen," remarked Barbet.
Ricks would have time to send these colored people up town to their friends. He telegraphed all these directions, and also requested the ticket agent to meet me with the passes. While waiting for the train I was furnished with a sofa by the kind matron who kept the ladies' waiting-room.
We were ushered into the waiting-room, a kind of parlor, with a fire in the grate, and a centre-table, whereon lay one or two medical journals, with wood engravings; and there was a young man, who seemed to be an official of the house, reading. Shortly the surgeon appeared, a brisk, cheerful, kindly sort of person, whom I have met there on previous visits.
Then smiling cheerily down at the prostrate man, she continued to dip the handkerchief, in the waiting-room tin washbasin and gently apply it to his temple. She had the benevolent garrulity of old age. "I ain't seen my son before," she continued, "in eight years. One of my nephews, Elkanah Price, he's a conductor on one of them railroads and he got me a pass to come out here.
The mysterious envelope and its contents, the wax and the seal all had come from his own dispensary! Inspector Dunbar stood in the little dispensary tapping his teeth with the end of a fountain-pen. "The last time he visited you, doctor the time when he gave you the envelope did the cabman wait here in the waiting-room?" "He did yes.
Then Uncle Robert said: "Now we'll go out to Elmbridge as quick as we can skip, but first we must pick up Ethelyn, whom I left in the waiting-room." "Oh, is Ethelyn here?" cried Patty. "I am so glad, I'm just crazy to see her." Apparently Ethelyn was crazy too, for she flew at her cousin as soon as she entered the door. "You dear thing!" she exclaimed, "I'm so delighted to see you.
Mazarine had seen the flutter of a blue skirt in the waiting-room, and his wife had worn blue that day! Orlando saw the heavy, offensive figure of Mazarine making for him. He, however, appeared to take no notice, though he watched his outrageous pursuer out of the corner of his eye, as he quietly gave orders to a porter concerning a little heap of luggage.
In the suburban side waiting-room I peered out of the window on to the station hall. True enough, I saw one, two, four, six guides loafing about the barriers leading to the main-line platforms. There seemed to be a lot of people in the hall and certainly a number of the men possessed that singular taste in dress, those rotundities of contour, by which one may distinguish the German in a crowd.
Some stomachs don't tolerate it very well." The door closed. The reporter stood in the waiting-room for a moment. Then he clapped on his hat. "Well, I'm a damned fool," he muttered, and went out into the street. He was disappointed and a trifle sheepish. Life was full of queer chances, that was all.
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