THE MEETING "There!" he said to himself, as he passed downstairs, "I am just as big a fool as she is.

She followed me to make a clean breast of everything, and I send her back with a request to keep her lips sealed.

Yet I am angry with her for the risk she is taking!" He reached the hall and was about to cross the foyer when he caught the words, "Gentleman thrown out of a cab," uttered by a handsome girl, cheaply but gaudily attired, who was making some inquiry at the bureau.
He stopped and searched for a match.

Then he became interested in the latest news, pinned in strips on the baize-covered board of a "ticker." The girl explained to an official that she had witnessed an accident that evening.

She was told that a gentleman who lived in the hotel was hurt.
Was he seriously injured?
The hotel man, from long practice, was enabled to sum up such inquirers rapidly.
"Do you know the gentleman ?" he inquired.
"No--that is, slightly." "Well, madam, if you give me your card I will send it to his friends.