"
The boy took the Knight's keister and went to the elevator, the door
opened and the Knight went in and began to pull off his coat, when he
looked around and saw a woman on the plush upholstered seat of the
elevator, leaning against the wall with her head on her hand. She was
dressed in ball costume, with one of those white Oxford tie dresses cut
low in the instep, which looked, in the mussed and bedraggled condition in
which she had escaped from the exposition ball, very much to the Knight
like a Knight shirt. The astonished pinery man stopped pulling off his
coat and turned pale. He looked at the woman, then at the
elevator boy, whom he supposed was the bridegroom, and said:
"By gaul, they told me I would have to sleep with a couple of other folks,
but I had no idea that I should strike a wedding party in a cussed little
bridal chamber not bigger than a hen coop. But there ain't nothing mean
about me, only I swow it's pretty cramped quarters, ain't it, miss?" and
he sat down on one end of the seat and put the toe of one boot against the
calf of his leg, took hold of the heel with the other hand and began to
pull it off.
"Sir!" says the lady, as she opened her eyes and began to take in the
situation, and she jumped up and glared at the Knight as though she would
eat him.
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