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True to his word, Jadwin reached his home that evening promptly at the promised hour. As he came into the house, however, the door-man met him in the hall, and, as he took his master's hat and stick, explained that Mrs. Jadwin was in the art gallery, and that she had said he was to come there at once. Laura had planned a little surprise. The art gallery was darkened.
A universally respected man of unquestioned integrity and decided importance. Close friend of Curator Jewett. IV Eben Clarke, door-man. Been long in the employ of museum. Considered entirely trustworthy. Home in decent quarter of West 80th Street. Wife and nine children, mostly grown. Never been abroad. Has no foreign correspondence.
Once Bob had gained admittance little time was wasted. He and Merkle helped Hammon to his feet, then each took an arm; but the exertion told, and Jarvis hung between them like a drunken man, a gray look of death upon his face. "Watch out for the door-man," Jimmy Knight cautioned for the twentieth time. "Make him think you've got a souse." "Aren't you coming along?" asked Bob. But Jim recoiled.
Helen thinks Jack has taken the money. Who else was there to take it? The box-office manager was at the front on his job; the orchestra hadn't left their seats; and no man could get past "Old Jimmy," the stage door-man, unless he could show a Skye terrier or an automobile as a guarantee of eligibility. With that out she whips, of course, the trusty 32-caliber.
She had reached the stage-door, other performers were leaving the theater. She gazed back into the face of Mr. Abey Lewis, and said blankly, "This evening what is this evening?" They sought to stop her, but there was something in those wide eyes that petrified them all. For the time Mr. Lewis remained as one hypnotized. The door-man was gazing at her with an expression of awe and wonderment.
His face, broad and clean-shaven, shone with a lustre which was partly warmth and partly simple friendliness. Save for a certain humility of bearing, he might have been taken for the liveried door-man of a moving-picture theater or exclusive millinery shop. In one hand he carried a very large black leather suit-case. "Is this Mr. Bleak?" he asked politely. "Yes," said the editor, in surprise.
She replied promptly, quoting haphazard from the various advertisements in which she figured. "It never shrinks; it holds its shape; it must be seen to be appreciated; is cool, refreshing, and prevents decay." "How did you meet that French dancer?" Hannibal Wharton queried, sourly, of his son. "I stormed the stage door, bullied the door-man, and waylaid her in the wings.
Jewett stepped again into the court, and repelling with hasty gestures the importunities of the small group of men and women who had lacked the courage to follow the more adventurous ones upstairs, crossed to where the door-man stood on guard over the main entrance. "Locked?" he asked. "Yes, sir. Such were the orders. Didn't you give them?" "No, but I should have done so, had I known.
They had both reached the broad corridor separating the two galleries at the western end before he ventured to remark: "This discovery alters matters, does it not? May I ask what you propose to do now? Anything in which we can help you?" Lynch. 3 Director Roberts. 4 Door-man. 5 Copyist. 6 Mrs. Alice Lee. 7-8 Mr. and Mrs. Draper. 9 Mr. Coit. 10 Mr. Simpson. 11 Prof.
"Then you have nothing whatever to add to what the others have told?" Her "no," if a shaky one, was decisive, and seeing no reason for detaining her further, he gave her permission to depart. Disturbed in his calculations, but not disheartened, Mr. Gryce next proceeded to interrogate the door-man at this end of the building.
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