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To-day
,
being
driven
by
the
necessity
of
doing
something
for
himself
,
he
entered
the
drug
store
which
occupied
the
principal
corner
,
facing
14th
Street
at
Baltimore
,
and
finding
a
girl
cashier
in
a
small
glass
cage
near
the
door
,
asked
of
her
who
was
in
charge
of
the
soda
fountain
.
Interested
by
his
tentative
and
uncertain
manner
,
as
well
as
his
deep
and
rather
appealing
eyes
,
and
instinctively
judging
that
he
was
looking
for
something
to
do
,
she
observed
:
"
Why
,
Mr.
Secor
,
there
,
the
manager
of
the
store
.
"
She
nodded
in
the
direction
of
a
short
,
meticulously
dressed
man
of
about
thirty-five
,
who
was
arranging
an
especial
display
of
toilet
novelties
on
the
top
of
a
glass
case
.
Clyde
approached
him
,
and
being
still
very
dubious
as
to
how
one
went
about
getting
anything
in
life
,
and
finding
him
engrossed
in
what
he
was
doing
,
stood
first
on
one
foot
and
then
on
the
other
,
until
at
last
,
sensing
some
one
was
hovering
about
for
something
,
the
man
turned
:
"
Well
?
"
he
queried
.
"
You
do
n't
happen
to
need
a
soda
fountain
helper
,
do
you
?
"
Clyde
cast
at
him
a
glance
that
said
as
plain
as
anything
could
,
"
If
you
have
any
such
place
,
I
wish
you
would
please
give
it
to
me
.
I
need
it
.
"
"
No
,
no
,
no
,
"
replied
this
individual
,
who
was
blond
and
vigorous
and
by
nature
a
little
irritable
and
contentious
.
He
was
about
to
turn
away
,
but
seeing
a
flicker
of
disappointment
and
depression
pass
over
Clyde
's
face
,
he
turned
and
added
,
"
Ever
work
in
a
place
like
this
before
?
"
"
No
place
as
fine
as
this
.
No
,
sir
,
"
replied
Clyde
,
rather
fancifully
moved
by
all
that
was
about
him
.
"
I
'm
working
now
down
at
Mr.
Klinkle
's
store
at
7th
and
Brooklyn
,
but
it
is
n't
anything
like
this
one
and
I
'd
like
to
get
something
better
if
I
could
.
"
"
Uh
,
"
went
on
his
interviewer
,
rather
pleased
by
the
innocent
tribute
to
the
superiority
of
his
store
.
"
Well
,
that
's
reasonable
enough
.
But
there
is
n't
anything
here
right
now
that
I
could
offer
you
.
We
do
n't
make
many
changes
.
But
if
you
'd
like
to
be
a
bell
-
boy
,
I
can
tell
you
where
you
might
get
a
place
.
They
're
looking
for
an
extra
boy
in
the
hotel
inside
there
right
now
.
The
captain
of
the
boys
was
telling
me
he
was
in
need
of
one
.
I
should
think
that
would
be
as
good
as
helping
about
a
soda
fountain
,
any
day
.
"
Then
seeing
Clyde
's
face
suddenly
brighten
,
he
added
:
"
But
you
must
n't
say
that
I
sent
you
,
because
I
do
n't
know
you
.
Just
ask
for
Mr.
Squires
inside
there
,
under
the
stairs
,
and
he
can
tell
you
all
about
it
.
"
At
the
mere
mention
of
work
in
connection
with
so
imposing
an
institution
as
the
Green
--
Davidson
,
and
the
possibility
of
his
getting
it
,
Clyde
first
stared
,
felt
himself
tremble
the
least
bit
with
excitement
,
then
thanking
his
advisor
for
his
kindness
,
went
direct
to
a
green-marbled
doorway
which
opened
from
the
rear
of
this
drug-store
into
the
lobby
of
the
hotel
.
Once
through
it
,
he
beheld
a
lobby
,
the
like
of
which
,
for
all
his
years
but
because
of
the
timorous
poverty
that
had
restrained
him
from
exploring
such
a
world
,
was
more
arresting
,
quite
,
than
anything
he
had
seen
before
.
It
was
all
so
lavish
.
Under
his
feet
was
a
checkered
black-and
-
white
marble
floor
.
Above
him
a
coppered
and
stained
and
gilded
ceiling
.
And
supporting
this
,
a
veritable
forest
of
black
marble
columns
as
highly
polished
as
the
floor
--
glassy
smooth
.
And
between
the
columns
which
ranged
away
toward
three
separate
entrances
,
one
right
,
one
left
and
one
directly
forward
toward
Dalrymple
Avenue
--
were
lamps
,
statuary
,
rugs
,
palms
,
chairs
,
divans
,
tete-a-tetes
--
a
prodigal
display
.
In
short
it
was
compact
,
of
all
that
gauche
luxury
of
appointment
which
,
as
some
one
once
sarcastically
remarked
,
was
intended
to
supply
"
exclusiveness
to
the
masses
.
"
Indeed
,
for
an
essential
hotel
in
a
great
and
successful
American
commercial
city
,
it
was
almost
too
luxurious
.
Its
rooms
and
hall
and
lobbies
and
restaurants
were
entirely
too
richly
furnished
,
without
the
saving
grace
of
either
simplicity
or
necessity
.
