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Failing to find it, he pushed a button instead, then tumbled back to bed, reviling the luck that had brought him to such a miserable place. He closed his eyes tightly and calmed his stomach by an effort of will. At last he heard the door open and a voice inquire: "Did you ring, sir?" "An hour ago. Haven't you more than one bell-hop in this place?" "I'm sorry, sir." "And I'm sick, mighty sick.
Instead of the bell-hop he had expected he beheld a man in white jacket and black trousers. "No, sir, I'm the steward." The invalid shook his head faintly. "Funny place I've got into. What's the name of it?" "This? Oh! The SANTA CRUZ." "Never heard of it. Why didn't they give me a good room? This is fierce." "Suite A is considered very good, sir. It is one of the best on the line." "Line?"
But of all the boys who have sat at the old walnut desk by the window, the Young Prince gave us the most joy. Before he came on the paper he was bell-boy at the National Hotel bell-hop, he called himself and he first attracted our attention by handing in personal items written in a fat, florid hand. He seemed to have second sight.
"You might as well come over with the story. We'll get him. He can't get out of this town." With the words, and the knowledge that in some incredible fashion Dick had made his escape, Bassett's mind reacted instantly. "What's eating you, Wilkins?" he demanded. "Who got away? I couldn't get that tongue-tied bell-hop to tell me. Thought it was a fire." "Don't stall, Bassett.
By seven P.M. I'd been made into a work of art by the hotel help and might of been observed progressing through the palatial lobby with my purple and gold opera cloak sort of falling away from the shoulders. Jeff Tuttle observed me for one. He was in his dress suit all right, standing over in a corner having a bell-hop tie his tie for him that he never can learn to do himself.
Bland protested, trailing a step behind Johnny, whose stride had lengthened with the bad news. Did Johnny think, f'r cat's sake, he could light in front of the Alexandria and call a bell-hop to take the plane? Did he think they could put the darn thing in an auto park? What about telephone wires and electric light wires and trolley wires? Bland would like to know.
The owner of the name stared at his lieutenant in astonishment, but slowly the fascination o the idea sank in. "By Jove! Why not?" "Says you're to come right up, Mr. Ridgway," the bell-hop reported, and after he had pocketed his tip, went sliding off across the polished floor to answer another call.
Save for the story which this Doctor West of the Hotel Robinson might spin, I would have gone back to the Corydon and forgotten it. I wandered about a good bit, when a bell-hop showed me an unexpected way out, and there was Mister Sachs at the gangway, looking about for me. "'Why, where 'ave you been? he asked. 'I thought you'd gone.
I thought I'd put you wise. I didn't notice that the man had no grip until he was in the elevator." "All right. I'll send the bell-hop captain up with a fake call to see if the man's still there." When the captain late of the A.E.F. in France returned to the office he was mildly excited. "Gee, there's been a whale of a scrap in Room 212. The chambermaid let me in."
"All I can say is that you'd better send your friends the password! That fool out there with the gun " "Only a bell-hop, nothing more," I interrupted. " That fool, I say, is likely to kill somebody. Antoine" he turned to the butler, who was drawing the curtains at the windows "if the property's been threatened, you should have informed me immediately."
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