tictocq's

Updated: May 19, 2025

Last Wednesday afternoon a well-dressed gentleman knocked at the door of Tictocq's room in the hotel. The detective opened the door. "Monsieur Tictocq, I believe," said the gentleman. "You will see on the register that I sign my name Q. X. Jones," said Tictocq, "and gentlemen would understand that I wish to be known as such.

O. Henry - Rolling Stones

"No socks will do but those you carried off from the Populist Candidate's room." The company is returning, no longer hearing the music. Tictooq hesitates not. He seizes the professor, throws him upon the floor, tears off his shoes and socks, and escapes with the latter through the open window into the garden. Tictocq's room in the Avenue Hotel. A knock is heard at the door.

O. Henry - Rolling Stones