loved the law and admired the force and longed to stop and play with them he his car a block from s saloon worrying well rats if anybody did see me they d think i was here on business he entered a place curiously like the of days with a long greasy bar with in front and mirror behind a pine table at which a dirty old man dreamed over a glass of something which resembled and with two men at the bar drinking something which resembled beer and giving that impression of forming a large crowd which two men always give in a saloon the a tall pale with a diamond in his stared at as he stalked up to the bar and whispered i d � friend of s sent me here like to get some gin the gazed down on him in the manner of an outraged bishop i guess you got the wrong place my friend we sell nothing but soft drinks here he cleaned the bar with a rag which would itself have done with a little cleaning and glared across his mechanically moving elbow the old at the table the say listen did not listen i aw say listen will say lis sen the decayed and drowsy voice of the the agreeable of beer threw a spell of over the moved grimly toward the crowd of two men followed him as delicately as a cat and say i want to speak to mr see him for i just want to talk to him here s my card it was a beautiful card an engraved card a card in the black and the red announcing that mr george f was estates rents the held it as though it weighed ten pounds and read it as though it were a hundred words long he did not bend from his dignity but he growled i ll see if he s around from the back room he brought an immensely old young man a quiet sharp eyed man in tan silk shirt checked hanging open and brown trousers � mr mr said only but his and contemptuous eyes s soul and he seemed not at all impressed by the new dark gray suit for which as he had admitted to every acquaintance at the club had paid a hundred and twenty five dollars glad meet you mr say � i m george of the company i m a great friend of s well what of it say i m going to have a party and told me you d be able to fix me up with a little gin in alarm in as s eyes grew more bored you to about me if you want to answered by his head to indicate the entrance to the back room and strolled away crept into an apartment containing four round io tables eleven chairs a and a smell he waited thrice he saw through humming hands in pockets him by this time had modified his morning vow i won t pay one cent over seven dollars a to i might pay ten on s next weary entrance he could you fix that up and just a minute � s sake � just a in growing went on waiting till casually reappeared with a of gin � what is known as a � in his long white hands twelve he snapped say but say cap n thought you d be able to me up for eight or nine a bottle twelve this is the real stuff from canada this is none o your spirits with a drop of extract the honest merchant said twelve bones � if you want it course y understand i m just doing this anyway as a friend of s sure sure i understand gratefully held out twelve dollars he felt honored by contact with greatness as yawned stuffed the bills into his radiant and away he had a number of out of concealing the under his coat and out of hiding it in his desk all afternoon he and chuckled and over his ability to give the boys a real shot in the arm to night he was in fact so that he was within a block of his house before he remembered that there was a certain matter mentioned by his wife of ice cream from s he explained well it � and drove back was not a he was the of most coming out parties were held in the white and gold of the at all nice the guests recognized the five kinds of and the seven kinds of cakes and all really smart dinners ended as on a in ice cream in one of the three � the the round like a cake and the long brick s shop had pale blue of plaster roses attendants m and glass shelves of kisses with all the refinement that in of eggs heavy and thick amid this professional and as he waited for the ice cream he decided with hot at the back of his neck that a girl customer was at him he went home in a temper the first thing he heard was his wife s agitated george did you remember to go to s and get the ice cream say look here do i ever forget to do things yes often well now it s dam seldom i do and it certainly makes me tired after going into a pink tea joint like s and having to stand around looking at a lot of half naked young girls all up like they were sixty and eating a lot of stuff that simply ruins their � oh it s too bad about you i ve noticed how you hate to look at pretty girls with a jar realized that his wife as too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which rule the world and he went humbly up stairs to 