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Updated: June 10, 2025
"'May I know your name? he says. "It made me feel like Rockerbilt, hearin' him say that, in that special voice. "'Me, says I, 'I'm Flanders. "'It's an honour to know you, Mr. Flanders, he says. 'My name is Anthony Bard. "We shook hands, and his grip was three fourths man, I'll tell the world. "'Good liquor, says he, 'is like a fine lady. Only a gentleman can appreciate it.
Rockerbilt and rifle his pockets all I have to do is to station myself outside the Crackerbaker Club any dark opera night after twelve and catch him on his way home with his fortune sticking out all over him? Because the newspapers tell me that he is a regular habitué of the Crackerbaker and plays bridge there every night after the opera.
Rockerbilt gives a tea for the benefit of the Fresh-Air Fund, and she always has a dozen of the children from town for a week beforehand so as to get them in shape for the function." "Get them in shape for the function, Bunny?" asked Henriette. "Yes; one of the features of the tea is the presence of the youngsters, and they have to be pretty well rehearsed before Mrs.
Gramercy Van Pelt, clad in a gorgeous red costume, stood up on a chair and toasted me in a bumper of champagne. Meanwhile Henriette and Mrs. Rockerbilt had gone above.
Rockerbilt knew this copy was in existence she'd never wear the other in public again as long as she lived without bringing a dozen detectives along with her. No, indeed a dinner. I want you to connect the electric lights of the dining-room with the push-button at my foot, so that at any moment I can throw the dining-room into darkness. Mrs. Rockerbilt will sit at my left Tommy Dare to the right.
"No," said Henriette. "In fact, she placed the bogus affair in her hair herself. As far as her knowledge goes, I never even touched the original." "Well, you're a wonder, Henriette," said I, with a sigh. "Still, if Mrs. Rockerbilt should ever discover " "She won't, Bunny," said Henriette. "She'll never have occasion to test the genuineness of her tiara.
Muffling myself up so that no one could recognize me, I hired a cab and drove out to the Rockerbilt mansion, sent in word that Mr. de Pelt's man was waiting for him, and in ten minutes had the young gentleman in my possession. I took him to his apartment, dismissed the cab, and, letting ourselves into his room with his own latch-key, put him to bed.
Rockerbilt dares let them loose among her guests," said I, for Digby had explained the scheme in detail to me. "You see, their ideas of fun are rather primitive, and if they were suddenly introduced into polite society without any previous training the results might prove unpleasant." "Ah!" said Henriette, gazing abstractedly out of the window in the manner of one suddenly seized with an idea.
"As a matter of fact, it was like this. Like a fool, I'd bought a second-class ticket." "What? Our young Rockerbilt Astergould, the boy millionaire, traveling second-class! Why?" "I had an idea it would be better fun. Everybody's so much more cheery in the second cabin. You get to know people so much quicker. Nine trips out of ten, I'd much rather go second." "And this was the tenth?"
"Bunny, you used to make fairly good sketches, didn't you?" she asked. "Pretty good," said I. "Chiefly architectural drawings, however details of façades and ornamental designs." "Just the thing!" cried Henriette. "To-night Mrs. Rockerbilt gives a moonlight reception on her lawns. They adjoin ours.
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