She
bothered me no more than any other pretty girl I might have
recently come across. Young women with strikingly interesting
faces and figures were not rare in New York
I had not been walking five minutes when I impatiently returned to
the hotel to consult the time-tables
CHAPTER II I WAS chatting with Rivesman, the lessee of the
hotel, across the counter that separated part of his office from the
lobby. As I have said, I had known him for many years. He had
formerly been in the insurance business, and he had at one time
acted as my insurance broker. He was a Talmudist, and well
versed in modern Hebrew literature, to boot. He advised me
concerning trains to Tannersville, and then we passed to the hotel
business and mutual acquaintances
Presently Miss Tevkin, apparently on her way from her room,
paused at the counter, by my side, to leave her key. She was
dressed for dinner, although it was not yet half past 4 o'clock and
the great Saturday-evening repast, for which train after train was
bringing husbands and other "weekenders" to the mountains, was
usually a very late affair
The dress she now wore was a modest gown of navy blue trimmed
with lace.
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