Indiscretions of Archie

addie!" s

one of the things on which Mr. Daniel Brewster, the proprietor, insisted. And as he was always wa

o see the

ything I cou

ked at him

up a fearful row, and it hardly seems fair to lug you into it. Why you, I me

close by, gazing on the lobby with an air of restrained severity

manager,

d, after his daughter Lucille. He prided himself on the fact that his hotel was not like other New York hotels, which were run by impersonal companies and shareholders and boards of directors, and consequently lacked the paternal touch which made the Cosmopolis what it was. At other hotels things wen

omplaint?" he e

Brewster's coat, and was immediately dislodged by

you might call a general demand for my services in England. Directly I was demobbed, the family started talking ab

wster's coat-button, a

in England, and I fancy the family were getting

ntangled himself

e," he said coldly, "and be informed what is your

t. Well, it was like this. A chappie on the boat told m

right," said

if this is the best of the lot! I took a room here last night," said Archie quivering with self-pity,

been found in his armour. Not even the most paternal hotel-p

s outside the door when I went to bed, and this morning they

Mr. Brewster. "My

d them clean

basement. At the Cosmopolis shoes left

Cosmopolis is a ba

ster's parentage, knock Mr. Brewster down and walk on his face with spiked shoes, and you did not irremediably close

stiffening, "I must ask y

I wouldn't stay in the b

dramatic purposes he concealed it from his adversary, to leave the hotel that morning. One of the letters of introduction which he had broug

station, "one thing's certain. I'll ne

in this worl