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"Good morning, sir," he said. "I have brought a few more of your personal belongings." He began to unstrap the suit-case he was carrying. "Did you have any trouble sneaking them away?" "It was not easy, sir. I had to watch my chance. Miss Rockmetteller is a remarkably alert lady." "You know, Jeeves, say what you like this is a bit thick, isn't it?"
"Not to live in the country?" "Yes, Rockmetteller." "Stay in the country all the time, do you mean? Never come to New York?" "Yes, Rockmetteller; I mean just that. It is the only way. Only there can you be safe from temptation. Will you do it, Rockmetteller? Will you for my sake?" Rocky grabbed the table again. He seemed to draw a lot of encouragement from that table. "I will!" he said.
It occurred to me that the same treatment might prove efficacious in the case of Miss Rockmetteller." I was stunned by the man's resource. "It's brain," I said; "pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat a lot of fish, Jeeves?" "No, sir."
Todd to induce some second party to gather the actual experiences which Miss Rockmetteller wishes reported to her, and to convey these to him in the shape of a careful report, on which it would be possible for him, with the aid of his imagination, to base the suggested correspondence." Having got which off the old diaphragm, Jeeves was silent. Rocky looked at me in a helpless sort of way.
"The jolly old roof-tree, and all that sort of thing what?" "Precisely, sir." I lit another cigarette. "Jeeves." "Sir?" "Do you know, at one point in the business I really thought you were baffled." "Indeed, sir?" "When did you get the idea of taking Miss Rockmetteller to the meeting? It was pure genius!" "Thank you, sir.
It was what he said made me leap like a young gazelle. "Miss Rockmetteller!" And in came a large, solid female. The situation floored me. I'm not denying it. Hamlet must have felt much as I did when his father's ghost bobbed up in the fairway. I'd come to look on Rocky's aunt as such a permanency at her own home that it didn't seem possible that she could really be here in New York.
"The fault," she said, "was mine. I had not then seen the light. But now my eyes are open. I see the hideous mistake I have made. I shudder at the thought of the wrong I did you, Rockmetteller, by urging you into contact with this wicked city." I saw Rocky grope feebly for the table. His fingers touched it, and a look of relief came into the poor chappie's face. I understood his feelings.
It will be hard at first, but you will find that you can do it if you fight with a stout heart against the glamour and fascination of this dreadful city. Won't you, for my sake, try, Rockmetteller? Won't you go back to the country to-morrow and begin the struggle? Little by little, if you use your will "
There is no music, there are no drunken, dancing men, no shameless, flaunting women at his meetings; so for you they would have no attraction. But for others, less dead in sin, he has his message. He has come to save New York from itself; to force it in his picturesque phrase to hit the trail. It was three days ago, Rockmetteller, that I first heard him.
As regarded the future he was pretty solid, owing to the fact that he had a moneyed aunt tucked away somewhere in Illinois; and, as he had been named Rockmetteller after her, and was her only nephew, his position was pretty sound.
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