4812

Updated: May 24, 2025

"The present four hundred consists of about 19,250 people, of whom about twenty-five per cent. go to Newport at one time or another say, 4812. Of these 4812 about ten per cent. are eligible for invitations to the Burlingame dinners, or 480. Now whom of the 480 possibilities having access to the Burlingame cottage would we naturally suspect?

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes & Co. : Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth