GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

_A Chapter Concerning Drusilla, Pa-pah and a Minion_

Capital had now been furnished for The Green Mouse, Limited; a great

central station of white marble was being built, facing Madison Avenue

and occupying the entire block front between Eighty-second and Eighty-

third streets.

The building promised to be magnificent; the plans provided for a

thousand private operating rooms, each beautifully furnished in Louis XVI

style, a restaurant, a tea room, a marriage licence bureau, and an

emergency chapel where first aid clergymen were to be always in

attendance.

In each of the thousand Louis XVI operating rooms a Destyn-Carr wireless

instrument was to stand upon a rococo table. A maid to every two rooms, a

physician to every ten, and smelling salts to each room, were provided

for in this gigantic enterprise.

Millions of circulars were being prepared to send broadcast over the

United States. They read as follows:

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