7/14 These were the kind of men with whom he would converse longest and most seriously. He loved to go out and have a good time once in a while to go to the races, the theatres, the sporting entertainments at some of the clubs. He kept a horse and neat trap, had his wife and two children, who were well established in neat house on the North Side near Lincoln Park, and was altogether a very acceptable individual of our great American upper class-the first grade below the luxuriously rich. The latter's genial nature and dressy appearance pleased him. He knew that Drouet was only a traveling salesman-and not one of many years at that-but the firm of Barlett, Caryoe & Company was large and prosperous house, and Drouet stood well. |