I came back on the four o'clock boat and held down the 'line' on Kearney Street for an hour or two." "Yes ?" young Haight said perfunctorily, adding after a moment, "Isn't this a gay crowd, a typical San Francisco crowd and--" "I had a cocktail in the Imperial at about quarter of five," said Geary, "and got a cigar at the Elite; then I went around to get my clothes.

Oh, you ought to have heard the blowing up I gave my tailor! I let him have it right straight." Geary paused a moment, and Vandover said: "Come on, let's walk around a little; don't you want to?
We might run on to the red hat again." "I told him," continued Geary without moving, "that if he wanted to do any more work for me, he'd have to get in front of himself in a hurry, and that _I_ wasn't full of bubbles, if _he_ was.

'Why,' says he, 'why, Mr.Geary, I've never had a customer talk like this to me before since I've been in the business!' 'Well, Mr.Allen,' says I, 'it's time you _had_! Oh, sure, I gave it to him straight." "Vandover has gone daft over a girl in a red hat," said young Haight, as they got up and began to walk.

"Have you noticed her up here ?" "I went to the Grillroom after I left the tailor's," continued Geary, "and had supper downtown.

Ah, you ought to have seen the steak they gave me! Just about as thick as it was wide.