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For all business purposes he should be addressed as the Mordaunt Estate, his duly incorporated title. Wagboom is an irritant to a haughty property-owner's soul." "Shall we go back and try a counter-irritant?" asked the young man of his companion. "With a view to renting?" I inquired. "Yes." "Do you keep dogs?" "No," said the young man. "Or clocks by the hundred?"
"Suitable" is the catch in that innocent-appearing legend. For the Mordaunt Estate, which is no estate at all and never has been, but an ex-butcher of elegant proclivities named Wagboom, prefers to rent its properties on a basis of prejudice rather than profit, and is quite capable of rejecting an applicant as unsuitable on purely eclectic grounds, such as garlic for breakfast, or a glass eye.
"Maybe," returned the Estate, whereupon the stranger introduced himself, with a stiff little bow, as Mr. Winslow Merivale. Mr. Wagboom was favorably impressed with this, as possessing aristocratic implications. "The name," he pronounced, "is satisfactory. The sum is satisfactory.
"He is a proud and reserved ex-butcher, named Wagboom, now doing a limited but high-class business in rentals as the Mordaunt Estate." "He may be the butcher, but he talks more like the pig. All we could get out of him was a series of grunts when we addressed him by name." "Ah, but you used the wrong name.
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