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Updated: June 22, 2025
Charles W. Martin, Suites 105-7-9-11 Z, Flat Iron Bldg., New York. Specialist in everything pertaining to power plants." Out on the platform Martin asked, "Where do you stop here in Corinth, Mr. Gollop?" "At the City Hotel," said Jimmy. "Good sample rooms there. Good grub. Good beds." "I think I'll go there, too," said Martin, and together they entered the hotel bus and were driven away.
Gollop, resuming a placid mental attitude, and the celebrated Gollop grin. "It's a wise man who knows where he's not welcome. Both celebrity and notoriety are distinctions to be shunned. A mud-cat is the most secure of all fish because nobody wishes to either catch and eat, or play with and caress him. His sole virtue is his obscurity, the sharpness of his bones his only protection.
And Jimmy, turning away with a heavy-villain air of dignity, was ashamed of himself because he had blushed profusely in sight of two mere urchins in brass buttons. "I suppose," said the buyer for one of the biggest middle Western jobbing houses, addressing a friendly competitor across the table at their club, "that Jim Gollop comes as near to being the synonym for sunshine as any man can be."
Hope you're not the chap that played the joke on old Granger, because if you are well you'd better stay away from Princetown, is all I've got to say!" And his laugh was so free and hearty that Jimmy acted on intuition and whispered most ruefully, "By heck! I am! Help me out, can't you? They'd " "Tar and feather you!" laughed the superintendent. "But are you really the famous Mr. Gollop?
"How are things with you?" asked Martin shrewdly eyeing him through the first blue smoke screen of a cigar. "Oh, so-so," replied Jimmy, evasively. "Everything all right?" "In a way. In a way." "Chocolate business flourishing?" "It was up to a week ago." "But now? How about now, Gollop?"
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