But I
did not stir
The hotel-keeper came out to remind me of my train
"Thank you," I said, with a smile. "But the weather is too
confoundedly good. I'm too lazy to leave your place, Rivesman.
You must have ordered this weather on purpose to detain me."
I was hoping, of course, that my presence in this hotel would be
unknown to the Kaplans, for some time at least. Soon, however,
something happened which made it inevitable that they should
hear of it that very evening
On Sundays the Jewish summer hotels are usually visited by
committees of various philanthropic institutions who go from
place to place making speeches and collecting donations. One
such committee appeared in the dining-room of the Rigi Kulm at
the dinner-hour, which on Sundays was between 1 and 3. It
represented a day nursery, an establishment where the children of
the East Side poor are taken care of while their mothers are at
work, and it consisted of two men, one of whom was an eloquent
young rabbi.
As the ecclesiastic took his stand near the piano and began his
appeal my heart sank within me.
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