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As the Hotel Salisbury had been only two years in existence, this was not an idle boast, and it had the effect of inducing many people to buy the tickets, which sold at a dollar apiece, and were good for "one gent and a lady," and entitled the bearer to a hat-check without extra charge.
She would stop Carl in the dark "railroad" hallway and, chewing gum rapidly, chatter about the aisleman at Wanamacy's, and what a swell time there would be at the coming ball of the Thomas J. Monahan Literary and Social Club, tickets twenty-five cents for lady and gent, including hat-check.
Worthington resented it, as it resented most innovations; but endured the imposition, for lack of solidarity, until the "Clarion" took up the subject in a series of paragraphs. "Do you think," blandly inquired the editorial roosters, "that when you tip the hat-check girl she gets the tip? She doesn't.
Next him was a hat-check girl, a queenly person who communed with something set in the lid of her vanity case, and fed on chicken a la king. Then there was a newsboy, whose all-observant eyes darted about everywhere, the while he absorbed baked beans and ketchup. An old maid shopper.
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