Average Jones

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Capitolo 84

almost from heart.  During the period to wait for his/her order to be
brought him you/he/she was brooding on the problem, when he felt a
hand-pressure on his/her shoulder and it turned to compare the Mr. Thomas
Colvin McIntyre, solemn of expression and groomed with a supernal
modesty of elegance, as been worthwhile a young rising diplomat, already
Fifth Assistant Minister of State of the United States of America.

"Hi, Tommy" says the breakfaster.  "What will it have to drink?
A cordialer of the agreement?"

"You don't joke", says the other.  "I am in a fear color pink and pale.  I am afraid
to look in the papers in the morning."

"Hi!  What has you/he/she been to that above it is scandalous?"

"It is not me", the diplomat answered ungrammatically.  "It is Telfik
Bey."

"Telfik Bey?  You wait for an instant.  Allow me to think."  The name had struck a
answered from of the thread of thought among Jones Medio it perturbed
brain.  To the moment it entered to him as it stamps visualized small
head-lines, reproduced to the eye of the mind from the Washington
newspaper that he had so it thoroughly studied.

     THIS TURKISH A RAPID JUMPER
     Telfik Bey, Guest of Turkish Embassy, As soon as
     Escapes an Excess of speed Motor-car

Any arrest, appeared, you/he/she had been done.  The "history", indeed it was
reassumes, and of any intrinsic importance anything else other than as a social note.
But to Make the average of Jones started to bright burn.

"Who is Telfik Bey?" he asked.

"He is not.  Above to yesterday him it was a guest of this hotel."

"Indeed!  Done skip about without paying his/her account?"

"Yes--the ah.  Skipped about--or, it suddenly went away without paying his/her account,
if you choose to put him/it this way."

The tone was meaningful.  The good face of natured of Jones I mediate it became
serious.

"Oh, I implore Your pardon Tommy.  Was it a the friend of Your?"

"No He was, in a sense, a custody of the Department, here on
invitation.  This is what has almost driven me crazy."

Nervously fumbling in the pocket of his/her creaseless white vest
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