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I said, “ I assumed so and it's very nice of you, but I should be very glad to have you stay for a day or two if there's anything you have to pick up or clean up. I might need your services for the next couple of days.”

Then Mr. Doak went. I shook hands with him and asked him to come in again. I said, “ Callus will pack your things if that's all right.”

He said it was all right, but I think he was very much astonished. I never have known why he hadn't already gotten himself out. Perhaps that happened in other places, but I never had heard of it before. So far as I could make out he hadn't moved a thing and there was a lot of trash there. After he had gone out to lunch Callus then came in to pack. Callus was a nice, simple, although dirty, man. He said, “I'll take good care of you. I've been a butler for a good many years. I was a butler for Mrs. ‘So-and-So’ I was a butler for Judge ‘So-and-So.’ I was a butler for Senator ‘So-and-So.’ I know just how to take care of ladies. I want to show you your washroom.”

I hadn't thought about that. Opening off the Secretary's office there was a room which, in an apartment house, had originally been built for a bathroom. It was perfectly appropriate. The tub had been taken out, or I'm pretty sure it had, and there was a long, very comfortable couch