Walking Dead Man
“A violence can be the beginning of a kind of panic if the word spreads among our hundreds of transient guests. Get hundreds of people making hysterical inquiries at the switchboard and our whole telephone system is disrupted; dozens of people will want to check out at once, jamming up our front desk and our bookkeeping department, demanding to get their precious belongings out of our safety deposit boxes. It can generate a madhouse that will continue long after whatever the trouble is has been ...cleared up.
Perhaps it was asking too much that the attack on George Battle could have been kept a secret. The lobby, normally quiet at ten o’clock at night, had still been crowded with ladies hoping to get a glimpse of David Loring. The police had not sneaked into the hotel when they came. Ten minutes after they arrived, the word had spread like a forest fire. There was no time or reason to check out who had started the story going. Dozens of people on the staff knew that George Battle was in the penthouse and that extraordinary precautions were being taken to protect him, and when those precautions broke down, so did any secrecy about it.MoreLess
Perhaps it was asking too much that the attack on George Battle could have been kept a secret. The lobby, normally quiet at ten o’clock at night, had still been crowded with ladies hoping to get a glimpse of David Loring. The police had not sneaked into the hotel when they came. Ten minutes after they arrived, the word had spread like a forest fire. There was no time or reason to check out who had started the story going. Dozens of people on the staff knew that George Battle was in the penthouse and that extraordinary precautions were being taken to protect him, and when those precautions broke down, so did any secrecy about it.MoreLess
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