“You have plenty of employees and special police to deal with them, haven’t you?” asked Nick carelessly.
“Oh, yes. Only I shouldn’t like my guests to be disturbed. It would hurt the reputation of my house.”
“They have taken another road and gone straight down to the railroad station,” announced Patsy. “There’s another party wants to come in, chief. I told him I’d ask you.”
“Who is he?”
“Mr. Thomas Jarvis.”
“Jarvis?” cried Nick. “Let him come in, by all means! This is going to be a most interesting gathering. Mr. Billings, you will kindly move over to that other chair. I should like Mr. Jarvis to sit next to me.”
“Anything you say, Mr. Carter,” said Billings, with a grin. “I wasn’t never in sech a swell place as this before—not to set down with the people who belonged to it, anyhow.”