"Don't you worry!" And forthwith he sent Billy Durgin, who works in the City Hotel, to Hoffmuller's.

He was to remind Colonel Potts that his train left at eleven-eight.
Billy returned with news.

Potts was reading the piece to Hoffmuller and a number of his patrons.

Further, he had bought, and the crowd was then consuming, the two fly-specked bottles of champagne which Hoffmuller had kept back of his bar, one on either side of a stuffed owl, since the day he began business eleven years before.
Billy also brought two messages to Solon: one from Potts that he had been mistaken about the attitude of Little Arcady toward himself--that he was seeing this more clearly every minute.

The other was from Hoffmuller.