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Updated: June 17, 2025
She sank into a leather-cushioned seat in a corner of the lift. Two men entered briskly, followed by a bellboy. Mrs. McChesney did not look up. "Well, I'll be dinged!" boomed a throaty voice. "Mrs. McChesney, by the Great Horn Spoon! H'are you? Talking about you this minute to my friend here."
A bellboy had already secured the newcomers' baggage, and, after signing the register, Sam and Tom followed Dick and his wife to the elevator and to the third floor. "It's a fine layout, all right," declared Sam, when they were settled and the bellboy had been dismissed. Dick did not make any answer to this remark.
When he was shown to his sitting room on the eighth floor he saw at a glance that everything was as it should be; there was but one detail in his mental picture that the place did not realize, so he rang for the bellboy and sent him down for flowers. He moved about nervously until the boy returned, putting away his new linen and fingering it delightedly as he did so.
And what made me the hottest was that I felt the old man was right." A good hotel is a blessing, but the best hotel is still a hotel, and can be nothing more. One feels all right until the bellboy has fixed the key in the door and gone. Then you begin to realize that you are alone.
"I've done it for my mother many a time. I have been a bootblack. But it didn't hurt my character. You are going to the superintendent for his opinion. He is a Harvard man, but he worked his way through school and one of his jobs was bellboy in a hotel. Had he been too proud to work as a servant he would never have gotten the education that makes him head of this great school.
I believe even Browning will now forgive Frank for being late to dinner." Hodge shook hands with both Dick and Dade, and they all followed Frank into the hotel. A bellboy saw Merry and hastened to notify him that he was wanted at the desk. "Here is something for you, Mr. Merriwell," said one of the assistant clerks.
Where he got them I do not know, but I suspect he simply lifted them from vacant rooms. "Now some Number 30 copper wire and a couple of dry cells," ordered Kennedy, falling to work immediately on the telephones. The detective despatched a bellboy down to the basement to get the wire from the house electrician.
John," this to a bellboy, "go up to number forty-seven and bring down this gentleman's luggage." "You and the boy are in a conspiracy against me!" exclaimed Coleman, angrily. "I have a great mind to have you both arrested!" "I advise you not to attempt it. You may get into trouble." Coleman apparently did think better of it. Half an hour later he left the hotel, and Luke found himself alone.
Rocco scowled, but he made no reply. "You don't need any pillows or Pullman cars on the way to heaven," said Wrentz with a snarling laugh. The laugh was checked abruptly by a rap on the door. For an instant the ruffians looked at each other in alarm. There was no telling whether to open that door would be to face the drawn revolvers of detectives or only the expectant eyes of a bellboy.
Indeed, there was every evidence of his intention to leave on an early morning train. He had even desired to be awakened at six o'clock; and it was his failure to respond to the summons of the bellboy which led to so early a discovery of his death.
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