THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
CHAPTER I
THE HARRISES IN NEW YORK
It was five o'clock in the afternoon, when a bright little messenger boy in blue touched the electric button of Room No. —— in Carnegie Studio, New York City. At once the door flew open and a handsome young artist received a Western Union telegram, and quickly signed his name, "Alfonso H. Harris" in the boy's book.
"Here, my boy, is twenty-five cents," he said, and tore open the message, which read as follows:—
Harrisville,—.
Alfonso H. Harris,
Carnegie Studio, New York.
We reach Grand Central Depot at 7:10 o'clock tomorrow evening in our new private car Alfonso. Family greetings; all well.