Besides that, he will want somebody to keep his house for him, unless--' and here the perspiration started from every pore, as Frank Tracy thought: 'What if he is married, and the _us_ in his telegram means a wife, instead of a friend or servant, as I imagined!' This would indeed be a calamity, for then his own and Dolly's reign was over at Tracy Park, and the party they were to give that night to at least three hundred people would be their last grand blow-out.
'Confound the party!' he thought, as he arose from his chair and began to pace the room.

'Arthur won't like that as a greeting after eleven years' absence.

He never fancied being cheek by jowl with Tom, Dick and Harry; and that is just what the smash is to-night.

Dolly wants to please everybody, thinking to get me votes for Congress, and so she has invited all creation and his wife.

There's old Peterkin, the roughest kind of a canal bummer when Arthur went away.