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Updated: June 18, 2025
As my electric drew up at the Willoughby, a carriage backed to make room for it. I recognized the horses and the driver and the crests. "How long has Mrs. Ellersly been with my wife?" I asked the elevator boy, as he was taking me up. "About half an hour, sir," he answered. "But Mr. Ellersly I took up his card before lunch, and he's still there."
I must have seemed to them an ignorant boor; in fact, I had been about a great deal among people who knew how to behave, and had I never given the matter of how to conduct myself on that particular occasion an instant's thought, I should have got on without the least trouble. It was with a sigh of profound relief that I sank upon the chair between Miss Ellersly and Mrs.
"Very well," said I, in reply to him. He and I did not follow the others to the drawing-room, but turned into the library adjoining. From where I seated myself I could see part of the drawing-room saw the others leaving, saw Langdon lingering, ignoring the impatient glances of his wife, while he talked on and on with Miss Ellersly.
I lost no time in getting back into a business suit. A week passed and, just as I was within sight of my limit of patience, Bromwell Ellersly appeared at my office. "I can't put my hand on the necessary cash, Mr. Blacklock at least, not for a few days. Can I count on your further indulgence?"
When I got back to my office and was settling in to the proofs of the "Letter to Investors," which I published in sixty newspapers throughout the country and which daily reached upward of five million people, Sam Ellersly came in.
Meantime, he has to some extent lost his hold upon his affairs in Wall Street and suddenly awakens to the fact that he has been betrayed by Langdon, who, knowing that Blacklock is deeply involved in a short interest in Textile Trust stock, has taken advantage of the latter's preoccupation with Miss Ellersly to boom the price of the stock.
I was preoccupied and not expecting that statement; neither had I skill, nor desire to acquire skill, in reading family barometers in the faces of servants. So, I was for brushing past him and entering where I felt I had as much right as in my own places. He barred the way. "Beg pardon, sir. Mrs. Ellersly instructed me to say no one was at home."
"Anita, leave the room!" cried Mrs. Ellersly harshly, panic under the command in her tones. I felt rather than saw my advantage, and pressed it. "You see what they are doing, Miss Ellersly," said I. She passed her hands over her eyes, let her face appear again. In it there was an energy of repulsion that ought to have seemed exaggerated to me then, knowing really nothing of the true situation.
Ellersly sat opposite me, and I was irritated, and thrown into confusion, too, every time I lifted my eyes, by the crushed, criminal expression of his face. He ate and drank hugely and extremely bad manners it would have been regarded in me had I made as much noise as he, or lifted such quantities at a time into my mouth.
She tried to be cordial, but she couldn't her mind was on Anita, and the horror that would fill her when she discovered that she was to be married by a preacher of a sect unknown to fashionable circles. "All I ask of you," said I to him, "is that you cut it as short as possible. Miss Ellersly is tired and nervous." This while we were shaking hands after Joe's introduction.
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