The Troubled Air
“The doorman was a large, fierce-looking old man with a starched collar who always greeted Archer with quiet approval, probably because Archer was well over forty and wore a good hat. The hall had a hushed, marble atmosphere, as though kings were buried near the elevator shaft. The air in it seemed somehow to have remained intact from the day it was built, and when you breathed you got the odor of another century. If Herres is plotting revolution, Archer thought, as the elevator carried him upwa...rds, he is putting up a clever disguise.
Herres opened the door himself. He wasn’t wearing a jacket and his sleeves were rolled up and he looked very wide and young as he shook Archer’s hand and helped him off with his coat.
“O excellent man,” Herres said, “O sturdy friend. Enter and drink.”
“I have something for the kid,” Archer said, displaying the package. He had stopped at a toy store on the way uptown and bought a stereopticon viewer with colored slides of foreign scenes.
“If it makes a noise,”MoreLess
Herres opened the door himself. He wasn’t wearing a jacket and his sleeves were rolled up and he looked very wide and young as he shook Archer’s hand and helped him off with his coat.
“O excellent man,” Herres said, “O sturdy friend. Enter and drink.”
“I have something for the kid,” Archer said, displaying the package. He had stopped at a toy store on the way uptown and bought a stereopticon viewer with colored slides of foreign scenes.
“If it makes a noise,”MoreLess
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