[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER THREE: The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr 36/38
They can't stop us; there's nothing to arrest you for." Nor was there.
Fred paid the bill unmolested, save for the prying eyes and babbling tongues of the rotunda. And a few hours from that, while the town was still ringing with news of his downfall, the Wizard with his wife and son walked down from their thousand-dollar suite into the corridor, their hands burdened with their satchels.
A waiter, with something between a sneer and an obsequious smile upon his face, reached out for the valises, wondering if it was still worth while. "You get to hell out of that!" said Fred.
He had put on again his rough store suit in which he had come from Cahoga County, and there was a dangerous look about his big shoulders and his set jaw.
And the waiter slunk back. So did they pass, unarrested and unhindered, through corridor and rotunda to the outer portals of the great hotel. Beside the door of the Palaver as they passed out was a tall official with a uniform and a round hat.
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