He stooped and picked it up.
"Shall I take this with me ?" he asked, and I said "By all means." That was all.
I gave ten minutes to reflection and to the possibility of Arthur's coming back and pleading, on his knees, to be allowed to restore that defective larynx.

Then I went straight upstairs to the telephone and rang up the Central office.

When they replied "_Hello_," I said, in the moderate and concentrated tone which we all use through telephones, "Can you give me New York ?" Poppa was in New York, and in an emergency poppa and I always turn to one another.

There was a delay, during which I listened attentively, with one eye closed--I believe it is the sign of an unbalanced intellect to shut one eye when you use the telephone, but I needn't go into that--and presently I got New York.

In a few minutes more I was accommodated with the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
"Mr.T.P.