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Langdon excitedly seized a diminutive bellboy passing by and planted him alongside his hat. "Stay there a moment, sonny," he cried. "You are the Fourth Virginia." The newspaper Stoneman was carrying came down opposite the startled bellboy, who was trying not to appear frightened. "This is the clump of cedars," he exclaimed.
Holmes laid another beside it. "Are Mrs. Bentley, Miss Bentley and Miss Meade here?" queried Dick. After consulting the hotel register the clerk nodded. "Our cards to Mrs. Bentley, please." "Front! Fifty-seven!" called the clerk to a bellboy. "Thank you," acknowledged Prescott. "Wheeling, the young men turned from the office, striding down the hotel veranda side by side.
For two and sometimes three days before the trips, Mayer always signed a receipt for the breakfast, but on his return he again paid in cash. Through a bellboy, who had admitted Jim to a patronizing intimacy, the astute Oriental had extended his field of observation. One of this boy's duties was to carry the mail to the rooms of the guests.
"What became of the letter or note or card?" asked Frost, with suspicion and jealousy in his heart. Two women, mistress and maid, and the bellboy swore they didn't know, but the maid did know.
At the Hotel California new comment buzzed between the garrulous clerk and the switchboard person, at sight of the well-known manager and his prosperous-looking companion. "Who is that come on?" asked the clerk of the bellboy. "Sure, dat's Montague Shirley, one of dem rich ginks from de College Club on Forty-fourth Street, where I used to woik in de check room.
I guess it will come out all right. At least, I don't believe you can take him away if I say no." "Thank you; and wait, no matter how long," she said to her driver. Catching up the paper, she hurried to the desk and laid down Lord O'More's card. "Has my uncle started yet?" she asked sweetly. The surprised clerk stepped back on a bellboy, and covertly kicked him for being in the way.
Thus reflecting, the bellboy brought him a card. The parson placed his glasses upon a fine aquiline nose. "Ahem! Mr. er Cartwright. The name is not familiar to me, but I'll see the gentleman." And so, after many years, father and son met as strangers. Dick fluently explained the nature of his errand. Mr. Carteret's letter had been given to him as the administrator of the late Mr.
At the corner the butcher had indicated Susan found the usual Raines Law hotel, adjunct to a saloon and open to all comers, however "transient." But she took the butcher's word for it, engaged a dollar-and-a-half room from the half-asleep clerk, was shown to it by a colored bellboy who did not bother to wake up.
My suspicions received confirmation a few minutes later, for we had hardly reached our rooms, and I was, in fact, standing at the door of Jacqueline's, bidding her good night, when a bellboy came along the passage and announced that the gentleman whom I was expecting was coming up the stairs. I said good-night to Jacqueline and went into my room and waited.
The menial in question was a uniformed bellboy winding in and out among tables and paging some elusive guest. As he approached, his chant grew plainer. "Mr. Bayne," he was droning. "Room four hundred and three." I raised a hand in summons, and he paused beside my seat. "Telephone call for you, sir," he informed me. With a word to my guardian, I pushed my chair back and crossed the room.
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