From: Auzston <meg...@rm...> - 2009-09-01 22:02:20
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Ilent old fellow, with thick glasses and a very disconcerting stare. He now used this stare hard and said nothing. So I hastened to add-- "Of course I have got money, but I haven't got it with me; and I shall have to give you a check." He just gave a little sniff and turned his head and glanced up at a framed card above the desk which read-- +-----------------+ |NO CHECKS CASHED.| +-----------------+ "But," I hastened to add, "I'll tell you what I would like to have you do. You telegraph, at my expense of course, to Mr. Murphy, of the Genesee Hotel, or Mr. Shea, at Shea's Theater, and I think they will assure you that Will Cressy's check is good." He sniffed again and looked at me through those big glasses, and I began to get rattled in earnest. There must be some way; I must have something that will convince this man I am not a crook. I have it! My Identification Card from my insurance company. Hastily getting out my pocketbook I showed him this card. "I can show you all right that I am Will Cressy. See? Here is my picture; and how heavy I am; and how tall; and the color of my eyes; and hair; and my signature." Anxiously I looked up at him again. And I hadn't touched him. I began to get desperate. Frantically I searched through my pocketbook for _something_ that would show my identity. I dragged out my different Club Cards. "See!" I said, "I belong to the Lambs' Club, in New York; and the Friars; and the Green Room Club; and the Touring Club of America; and the Vaudeville Comedy Club." I stopped; almost tearfully I looked at him. I could do no more. He |