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Updated: May 24, 2025
"I'll have to try a restaurant," and hurried into the first place which came into sight. "Have you any crabs?" he asked, of the waiter who came to him. "Yes, sah; very fine, sah. Want some softshell, sah?" "I don't care whether they are soft-shell or as hard as rocks. I want live crabs, the most active kind you have in stock."
This person is perhaps a trifle shabby-genteel in attire, but genially pompous and semi-military in bearing. He makes as if to go, but stopping suddenly, stares at I.P., and addresses him. Ahem! I a beg pardon, I'm sure, but have you by any chance an appointment for 11 A.M. at this address, with a Mr. I.P. Why a yes, as a matter of fact, I have. Mr. Mugsnap. Quite so. And your name is SOFTSHELL?
A couple of references, of course, "just as a matter of form," and a couple of guineas for visiting them. Not an Inquiry Fee, oh! dear no, merely "expenses." Some people apply for a loan, and, when everything is arranged, actually decline to receive it! Must provide against that, you knew. Within three days at the outside, Mr. SOFTSHELL is assured, that money will be in his hands without fail.
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