" She then handed me a small parcel, which I
slipped into my coat pocket.
When this had been agreed upon she and Henry left the office
and I took the hat and dress from the suit-case and put them on,
while Lemuel put on Henry's suit and whitened his face. This took
but a few minutes, and we went into the hall and found Henry and
Madge already waiting for us. Henry was blackened into a good
likeness of Lemuel, and Madge was quite a mussy scrub-woman. They
immediately entered the elevator and began to descend slowly,
while Lemuel and I crept down the stairs.
Lemuel and I kept as nearly as possible opposite the elevator,
so that we might arrive at the foot of the stairs but a moment
before Madge and Henry, and we could hear the two fathers
shuffling on the street floor, when suddenly, as we reached the
third floor, we heard a whisper from Henry in the elevator. The
elevator had stuck fast between the third and fourth floors. As
with one mind, Lemuel and I seated ourselves on a step and waited
until Henry should get the elevator running again and could
proceed to the street floor.
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