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I want to turn in an alarm. Yes quick! There is a fire a bad one incendiary top floor. No, no I'm not there. I can see it. Hurry!" He had dropped the telephone receiver without waiting to replace it on the hook and was now dashing madly out of the empty apartment and down the street. The hall-boy at Warrington's had done exactly as I had ordered him.
It was a hot London day; pale colours, thin stuffs, naked throats and large hats were strewn about the parks and streets. When I arrived, the lady's bell was answered by a hall-boy and, hearing the piano, I told him he need not announce me. When I opened the door, I saw Peter and the dark lady sharing the same seat in front of the open piano.
An hour later, just as he, Sargeant, and the other men of their "set" were in the act of going upstairs to the card-rooms, a hall-boy gave Condy a note, at that moment brought by a messenger, who was waiting for an answer. It was from Blix. She wrote: "Don't you want to come up and play cards with me to-night? We haven't had a game in over a week?"
Gilfoyle had some difficulty in finding Kedzie's address, but at last he learned it, and he made haste to her apartment. He was impressed by its gaudy vestibule. He told the hall-boy that he wanted to see Miss Adair. "Name, please?" "Just say a gentleman to see her." "Gotta git the name, or I can't 'phome up. Miss Adair naturally won't see no gempman ain't got a name." "Does she see many men?"
The fine-looking mulatto she had installed in imitation of some of her richer Brooklyn acquaintances had to be discharged. The Anglomania of the early eighties cruelly abolished the handsome darky hall-boy, that most artistic living bronze, with all his suggestion of barbaric magnificence, and all his Oriental obsequiousness. His one fault was that he was not English.
"He ran up to tell," Maxwell said this, and then he hesitated. "I guess you had better know all about it. Can you bear something disagreeable, or would you rather wait " "No, no, tell me now! I can't bear to wait. What is it?" "It wasn't the hall-boy that caught you. It was that woman." He felt her neck and hand grow rigid, but he went on, and told her all about it.
Stationing Leary before the front door, with instructions to keep a careful watch, Duvall went into the vestibule, and by means of his pocket light, inspected the names of the occupants of the building, as Grace had done a short time before. The hallway inside was dark, with the exception of a dim light at the foot of the stairs. Apparently the place boasted no elevator or hall-boy service.
The evidence of the detectives, corroborated by the evidence of a hall-boy and a janitor and by proof of the installation of the dictagraph, seemed conclusive to Mr. Firth. Cheever denied that he had committed the alleged adultery and gave proof that his income was not as stated. Attorney Tessier evaded the evidence of adultery, but fought hard against the evidence of prosperity.
He was far from certain of this errand, and nervous with doubt, but he reassured himself that he was acting on impulse, and that his impulses were so often good. The hall-boy at the Berkeley said, yes, Mr. Caruthers was in, and Van Bibber gave a quick sigh of relief. He took this as an omen that his impulse was a good one. The young English servant who opened the hall door to Mr.
Taylor in?" he asked, and gave his name. "Mrs. Taylor says will you please to wait, sir," was the reply. And Montague sat down in the reception-room. A couple of minutes later, the hall-boy brought him a note. He opened it and read these words, in a trembling hand: "Dear Allan: It is good of you to try to help me, but I cannot bear it. Please go away. I do not want you to think about me. Lucy."
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