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The walls, where they were not broken by telephone-boxes and a couple of photographs one representing the wreck of the James L. Moody on a bold and broken coast, the other the Saturday tug alive with amateur fishers almost disappeared under oil-paintings gaudily framed.
Quickly the circles lessened in concentric rings through the agencies of telephone-boxes and roundsmen. At half past nine a patrolman found a car answering the description standing outside an up-town saloon on the East Side. Examining the register number he saw at once that blacking had been smeared over the first and last figures. Then he knew. But there was no trace of the driver.
In noise it was a muffled silence compared with the fine racket that enlivens the air outside the Paris Bourse. I saw also an ordinary day in the Stock Exchange. Faint excitations were afloat in certain corners, but I honestly deemed the affair tame. A vast litter of paper on the floor, a vast assemblage of hats pitched on the tops of telephone-boxes these phenomena do not amount to a hustle.
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