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Updated: June 18, 2025
His secret was sacred to all his friends, all, save one, and this solitary exception led to a slight change in the Houston Street establishment. It came about as follows: "When a man comes home with orchids pinned to his coat," confided Mrs. Mangenborn to her friend Miss Husted, "it looks as if it was only a question of time when he would move uptown into more elegant apartments.
"Steam and electricity have been applied to travel and speech, and the earth transformed into a whispering gallery. The cylinder press has proclaimed universal education, and the dynamo crowned the brow of humanity with a coronet of light. "But our churches in New York have merely moved uptown! Their methods are the methods of their fathers a solecism, stupid, irrational, immoral.
"How do you mean?" asked Kennedy. "Well, one of the best witnesses, if I can break him down by pressure and promises, ought to be a man named Haddon, who is running a place in the Fifties, known as the Mayfair. Haddon knows all these people. I can get him in half an hour if you think it worth while not here, but somewhere uptown, say at the Prince Henry." Kennedy nodded.
"Um," said he, "they call 'em white muskets of Alexander"; and he grimaced. "Where are such to be had?" I asked. "Well," he said, "I got these just round the corner; but you'd have to visit some uptown fruit emporium and pay the price." "So you bought the last bunch?" "Bought nothin'," he said, and he smiled in a knowing and leering way. "They were given to me," he said, "by a married woman.
As I closed the door behind me I saw the old lawyer standing near the window, his spectacles poked above his eyebrows and his forehead red with indignation. Between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand he held a card. "So," he exclaimed, vainly trying to appear collected, "I find that my firm has been conducting an uptown office for criminal business! This is one of your cards, I believe?"
It was very late when we got back to the city and we dined at an uptown restaurant which we had almost to ourselves. Kennedy had placed the little whitish tablets in a small paper packet for safe keeping. As we waited for our order he drew one from his pocket, and after looking at it a moment crushed it to a powder in the paper. "What is it?" I asked curiously. "Cocaine?"
The sight so late in the day was an unusual one, for in all the years that I have called at the Bank ten, now no, eleven since we first knew each other Peter had seldom failed to be ready for our walk uptown when the old moon-faced clock high up on the wall above the stove pointed at four. "I thought there was something up!" I cried. "What is it, Peter balance wrong?"
Gosh, that boy knows me! He'll take a stiff finger bet from Alden P. Ricks." Together they motored uptown to the office of Gregg & Co., where Cappy's card gained him instant admittance to the broker's private office.
He gained the street, gained his car in front of The Sphinx and, twenty minutes later, after a break-neck run in which Benson for the second time that night defied all speed laws, Jimmie Dale alighted from his car at a street corner well uptown, dismissed Benson for the night, retraced his way half the distance back along the block, disappeared into a lane, and presently, taking a high fence with the agility of a cat in spite of, his encumbering package, dropped noiselessly down into a backyard.
And she couldn't very well refuse his summons. But it was not the news of her husband's accident that inspired the greater fear, which was quelled and soothed only to rise again when I recalled the note I had heard in her voice, a note eloquent of tragedy of tragedy she had foreseen. At length, unable to remain where I was any longer, I descended to the street and walked uptown in the rain.
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