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Updated: May 13, 2025
We'll tell him how we found you here; and you tell him you were holding a prayer-meeting. You didn't want to be disturbed, so you didn't have even a servant around all alone together at this hour." Then a new, strange voice spoke in. "Who said they were alone?" The four turned to see Mrs. Thropp filling the hall doorway, and Adna's head back of her shoulder.
Oh no, sir; the charge is by the day." Adna's knees seemed to turn to sand and run down into his shoes. He supported himself on his elbows. "Twelve dollars a day for those two rooms on the top of the moon?" "Yes, sir; that's the rate, sir." Adna was going rapidly. He chattered, "Ain't there no police in this town at tall?" "Yes, sir." "Well, I've heard they're the wust robbers of all.
The old man stalked out, followed by his fat ewe and their ewe lamb. Adna's very toothpick was like a small bayonet. His wife and daughter hung back to avoid being spattered with the gore of the unfortunate hotel clerk. The morning trains were unloading their mobs, and it was difficult to reach the desk at all. When finally Adna got to the bar he had lost some of his running start.
It was Adna's business to beat the shyster lawyers to the granger and beat the granger to the last penny. One of his best baits was a roll of cash tantalizingly waved in front of his victim while he breathed proverbs about the delayful courts. This being Adna's livelihood, it was not surprising that his habit of mind gave pennies a grave importance.
And that wife of his not only had to go and yell at him about a little coffee-stain, but she had to announce that she hardly saw how she could get ready to go right away and who was to look after those children? Adna's jaw fell. Perhaps he had ventured on dreams of being set free in New York all by himself. She soon woke him.
If she had have, she wouldn't have brought the girl along, to say nothing of her photograph. The amiable walrus in the cap and brass buttons recommended the Thropps to a boarding-house whose prices were commensurate with Adna's ideas and means, and he and his wife went thither, where they told a shabby and sentimental landlady all their troubles.
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