or's grille door clashed open for them
to enter.

And in the elevator, and later in the car, he was silent, as became the
clerk of Marston's offices in the company of Marston's daughter when
there were listeners near.

Her eyes gave him distinct approval and her lips gave him a charming
smile when he alighted at his destination.

Bradish stood for a moment and gazed after the car when it threaded its
way into the Broadway traffic.

"She's a flighty young dame, with a new notion for every minute," he
told himself. "You can see that plain enough. It's probably all jolly on
her part. However, in these days, if a fellow keeps his head steady and
his feet busy, there's no telling what the tango may lead to. This may
be exactly, what I've been paying tailors' bills for."

Indicating that in these calculating times the spirit of youth in the
ardor of love at first sight is not as the poet of romance has painted
it.

XVII ~ "EXACTLY!" SAID MR. FOGG

"O I am not a man o' war or privateer," said he,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we!
"But I'm an honest pirate a-looking for my fee,
Cruising down along the coast of the High Barbaree."
--Shanty of the "Prince Luther."

Mr. Fletcher Fogg privately and mentally and metaphorically slapped
himself on the back whenever he considered his many activities.

He was perfectly certain that he was the best little two-handed general
operator of an all-around character that any gentleman could secure
when that gentleman wanted a job done and did not care to give explicit
instructions as to the details of procedure.

The look of grief and regret that the fat face of Mr. Fogg could assume
when said gentleman--after the job was done--blamed the methods as
unsanctioned, even though the result had been achieved--that expression
was a study in humility--humility with its tongue in its cheek.

If Mr. Fogg could have advertised his business to suit himself--being
not a whit ashamed of his tactics--he would have issued a card inscribed
about as follows:

"Mr. FLETCHER FOGG: Promoting and demoting. Building and
busting. The whole inside of any financial or industrial
cheese cleaned out without disturbing the outside rind. All
still work done noiselessly. Plenty of brass bands for loud
work. Broad shoulders supplied to take on all the blame."

Mr. Fogg, in the presence of Julius Marston, was properly obsequious,
but not