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Updated: June 15, 2025
I rang for the hall-boy, asked for a cable-blank, and sent off a message to Armand & Son, telling them of the mistake and asking them to cable the name of the owner of the cabinet now in Mr. Vantine's possession.
"I hear you lost a patient from the hospital yesterday?" said Lieutenant Winslow, at the doctor's side. "From, did you say? That's right! He was to have been operated on to-day." The doctor shrugged his shoulders. "What!" "Two broken ribs. One grown fast to the lung." "Wh-ew!" "He just walked out. Said I had ordered him to have fresh air. There was a new hall-boy, a greenhorn."
Suddenly, in a back passage, leading from her office to the housekeeper's room, she came upon a boy of fourteen, Forest's hall-boy, really a drudge-of-all-work, on whom essential things depended. He was sitting on a chair beside the luggage lift absorbed in some work, over which his head was bent, while an eager tip of tongue showed through his tightened lips.
I thought of being a hall-boy. But you are not paid very much. I said, however, that I would at least get some sort of a place up-town. I could not stand it down in the "business" world. God, how horrible it is! All that seething effort and for what? All this "business" is it really necessary to the developing of the souls of men?
Where this page or hall-boy is found, the elevator carries you to the door of any apartment you seek; where he is not found, there is a bell and a speaking-tube in the lower entry, for each apartment, and you ring up the occupant and talk to him as many stories off as he happens to be.
The hall-boy, shorn of uniform and dignity, was outside, polishing brasses, when Margaret MacLean reached the hospital door. She stopped for an interchange of grins and greetings. "Mornin', Miss Peggie." "Morning, Patsy." He was "Patrick" to the rest of Saint Margaret's; no one else seemed to realize that he was only about one-fifth uniform and the other fifths were boy small boy at that.
"This very day," he said, with all delight. Now the hall-boy pounded on the door and he released his hold upon her regretfully. "You get ready now, will you," he said, "at once?" "Yes," she answered. "I'll be back in three-quarters of an hour." Carrie, flushed and excited, moved away as he admitted the boy. Below stairs, he halted in the lobby to look for a barber shop.
I remember that when we were looking for a flat you rejected every building that had a bell-ratchet or a speaking-tube, and would have nothing to do with any that had more than an electric button; you wanted a hall-boy, with electric buttons all over him. I don't blame you. I find such things quite as necessary as you do."
He could sleep now. Thank God for that! He turned toward the club, walking on the rosy airs of reaction. As he approached the club door, he was aware that a woman had disengaged herself from the crowd across the street, was hurrying toward him. At that moment, a hall-boy dived from the entrance, and grabbed his arm urgently but respectfully.
After he had entrusted the letter to the hall-boy, a reaction set in and he was able to consider the matter, if not with equanimity, at least with a degree of calmness. The strangest thing to him was that he could not bring himself to hate Reginald, of whose evil influence upon his life he was now firmly convinced.
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