The elevator boy glanced at it, and his manner immediately changed.
"Oh, indeed. Very well, sir," he said. "I'll take you up right away. Step lively, please."
I stepped into the elevator, and the lad turned a wheel which set us upon our upward journey at once.
"I am sorry to have been so rude to you, sir," said the boy. "I didn't really know you were a friend of his."
"Of whom?" I demanded.
"The old man himself," he replied, with which he handed me back the card I had given him, upon reading which I ascertained the name of the individual who had rushed past me so unceremoniously.
The card was this:
| MR. JUPITER JOVE ZEUS | ||
| Mount Olympus | ||
| Greece | ||
"Top floor, sir," said the elevator boy, obsequiously.