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James's. "And then the 40-H.P. girl's eyes sparkled as hard as diamonds. "'Very well, says she. 'You shall have full run of your serving-man's tastes this night. And she swims over to the boss's desk and gives him a smile that knocks the specks off his nose. "'I think your Rindslosh, says she, 'is as beautiful as a dream. It is a little slice of the Old World set down in New York.
"'An' let's see oh, yes 'An anachronism, says the boss. 'Cigarettes was not made at the time when halberdiers was invented. "'The ones you sell was, says Sir Percival. 'Caporal wins from chronology by the length of a cork tip. So he gets 'em and lights one, and puts the box in his brass helmet, and goes back to patrolling the Rindslosh. "He made a big hit, 'specially with the ladies.
"You remember," said Eighteen, "the guy in the hammered brass Prince Albert and the oroide gold pants and the amalgamated copper hat, that carried the combination meat-axe, ice-pick, and liberty-pole, and used to stand on the first landing as you go up to the Little Rindslosh." "Why, yes," said I. "The halberdier. I never noticed him particularly.
And even here, Herr Brockmann, he says, 'in this beautiful Rindslosh, a grand and enlightening reproduction of Old World history and architecture, they come to disturb its symmetry and picturesqueness by demanding in their arrogance that the halberdier of the castle wait upon their table! I have faithfuly and conscientiously, says he, 'performed my duties as a halberdier.
Well, sir, with all that Rindslosh scenery it was just like a play. And the halberdier sits down at the table at the girl's side, and I served the rest of the supper. And that was about all, except that when they left he shed his hardware store and went with 'em." I dislike to be side-tracked from an original proposition.
But what hurts me more than all, says Sir Percival, 'is the desecration that has been done to this splendid Rindslosh the confiscation of its halberdier to serve menially at the banquet board. "Even I could see that this stuff was piffle; but it caught the boss. "'Mein Gott, says he, 'you vas right. Ein halberdier have not got der right to dish up soup. Him I vill not discharge.
"But you haven't told me, Eighteen," said I, "how the cigar-case came to be broken." "Oh, that was last night," said Eighteen. "Sir Percival and the girl drove up in a cream-coloured motor-car, and had dinner in the Rindslosh. 'The same table, Billy, I heard her say as they went up. I waited on 'em. We've got a new halberdier now, a bow-legged guy with a face like a sheep.
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