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Updated: June 9, 2025
So I signals a fray-juggler to pull up more chairs, and we has quite a reunion. Seems they'd been on a long honeymoon trip: done the whole Pacific coast, stopped off a while at Banff, and worked hack home through Quebec and the White Mountains. Think of all the carfares and tips to bell-hops that means! He don't have to worry, though. Income is Westy's middle name.
A real Western cowboy with a pistol under his coat, a prospector turned multi-millionaire in a year, such a man especially if he wears a sombrero and gives five-dollar tips to the bell-hops is sure to break into the prints.
In and out among all these moving comedies and tragedies flits like an orange-colored butterfly a little Oriental boy, an angel-faced page goes calling "Mister Smith," and sober looking bell-hops stand alert to the sound of "Front."
We didn't know any more than a rabbit where to go when we got to Chicago; but Bonnie Bell took charge of us. We put up in the best hotel there was, one that looks out over the lake and where it costs you a dollar every time you turn round. The bell-hops used to give us the laugh quiet at first, and when the manager come and sized us up he couldn't make us out till we told him a few things.
"No, I didn't." "Well well," I broke in. "If you stopped on the way, you can remember where. The people you spoke to will be as good as the clerks and bell-hops at the Palace for your alibi." He sat silent, thoughtful, and I added, "Where did you go from Tait's, Worth?" "To a garage in the Tenderloin where they keep good cars. I'd hired machines from them before." "Oh, they knew you there?
"It's the troops, sir," he explained. "It's to keep Dutch and Gretchen and Elsie she's the wife of that Flynn in proper order, sir." "Troops" was a large term for the awkward squad of retired waiters and bell-hops, and it was with difficulty that I kept my face straight. "It's most unfortunate, but we was forced to it. Dinner is served, sir."
Bashford was not all that she pretended to be. The day was marked by unusual activities on the part of the waiters and bell-hops. Instead of the company drills to which I had become accustomed they moved about in pairs along the shore and the lines of the fences. I learned that Antoine had ordered this, and the "troops" were obeying him with the utmost seriousness.
Bashford the idea that any one could entertain malevolent designs upon her was more preposterous than ever, and I resolved that she must be shielded from annoyances of every kind. I told her with all the humor I could throw into the recital of the drilling of the bell-hops and of the uncomfortable relations between the Allied forces and the Teutonic minority on the estate. "It was dear of Mr.
Aintree vaulted off his cot and shook his fist at his friend. "You can't say that to me," he cried. "I do say it," protested Haldane. "When you were in Manila your men were models; here they're unshaven, sloppy, undisciplined. They look like bell-hops. And it's your fault. And everybody thinks so." Slowly and carefully Aintree snapped his fingers.
They were a picturesque lot, the ancient waiters and bell-hops grouped about Antoine with their lanterns and garden implements and firearms. Antoine was swallowing hard in his effort to continue his recital. "You say an old lady, sir; the mistress is not really what you would call so old not exactly, sir." "Really a youngish party, I should say," volunteered Graves, the gardener.
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