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"He'll be able to get up in a few days more," said the doctor, "and inside of a month he'll be riding his horse as if daylight never had been let through him." Governor Boyle took this announcement as the signal for him to produce his checkbook, which he did with considerable ostentation and flourish.
In the lobby the furniture was covered with men about town, who sat around with a checkbook in each hand and made faces at the cash register. There are more bellboys than bedrooms in the hotel. They use them for change. Every time you give the cashier $15 he hands you back $1.50 and six bellboys.
Larry, knowing from the stubs of Miss Sherwood's checkbook what would be likely to please her, gave as much consideration to Service as to Profit. The basis of his growing plan was good apartments at fair rentals. That he saw as the greatest of public services in the present crisis. But the return upon the investment had to be a reasonable one.
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