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A short, thick old man, grey-bearded and puff-eyed and loaded with enormous jewels, met Gail, Lucile and Arly, Ted Teasdale and the Reverend Smith Boyd, at the foot of the subway stairs, and introduced himself with smiling ease as Tim Corman, beaming with much pride in his wide-spread fame.
"Mr. Allison sent me to meet you," he stated, with a bow on which he justly prided himself. "Allison played a low trick on me, ladies," and he gazed on them in turns with a jovial familiarity, which, in another, they might have resented. "From the description he gave me, I was looking for the most beautiful young lady in the world, and here there's three of you. " His eyes swelled completely shut when he laughed. "So you'll have to help me out. Which one of you is Miss Sargent?"