I have great admiration for the whole tribe, and am on speaking terms with quite a bunch.

But for pure nerve commend me to that chap—it was in Chattanooga where I was stopping at the time—who rung me up from the office, five stories down.

Time eleven thirty-seven at night.

I jumped out of bed, and turning on the electric light, rushed to the phone.

"Hello, 411."

"Hello."

"This George Niblo?"

"Yes."

"Gone to bed, yet?"

"Sure. Do you think I——"