ring with a condescending
nod and smile. They talkedorratherhe talked and she listened and
giggled until lunch time. As the room began to fillthey left and he
walked home with her.
``You can come in'' she said. ``Pa won't be home to lunch to-day and
ma lets me do as I please.''
The Gansers lived in East Eighty-first Streetin the regulation twenty-
five-foot brownstone house. And withinalsoit was of a familiar New
York type. It was the home of the richvain ignoramus who has not
taste enough to know that those to whom he has trusted for taste have
shockingly betrayed him. Ganser had begun as a teamster for a brewery
and had grown rapidly rich late in life. He happened to be elected
president of a big Verein and so had got the notion that he was a person of
importance and attainments beyond his fellows. Too coarse and narrow
and ignorant to appreciate the elevated ideals of democracyhe reverted to
the European vulgarities of rank and show. He decided that he owed it to
himself and his family to live in the estate of ``high folks.'' He bought a
house in what was for him an ultra-fashionable quarterand called for bids
to furnish it in the latest style. The results were even more regardless of
taste tha
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