Isabel Ostrander

“ Of course I meet society men all the time, but I'm always glad to see old friends."
"There's a man I know that's seen your show a lot." McCarty felt his way with care. "Sam Vedder's his name and he's in with a lot of society people—"
"Sports, you mean!" Trixie laughed. "We all know Sam! He's crazy about Whitfield but she can't see him. He gave a supper party for her one night last week in his apartment up on the Drive and he certainly knows how to do things right even if he is only a kind of a con. man, as they say. ”

“ McCarty retorted with dignity. "Where do you suppose I've been the day, after seeing Kosakoff off for the station house? I started to hunt up all the makers of imitation junk in town and the fourth one I struck remembered the fine paste emeralds he made and put in the original old settings for a customer named Edward C. Crawford—he did not show much imagination in thinking up an alias for himself, did he? I pulled out a picture of Creveling that I'd cut from the newspaper, but with the name torn off, and he said it was the same man all right. ”

“ McCarty exclaimed in exasperation. Then he glanced at his watch and chuckled once more. "And put on your regular clothes while you are about it, for 'tis nearly six o'clock and you're going to a party to-night."
"A party, is it?" Dennis eyed him suspiciously. "If 'tis another of Mr. Terhune's little—"
"'Tis not. You're going to a theater this night—a big one on Broadway—to see what they call a musical comedy, and you'll be taking a lady out to supper afterwards; one of the ladies in the show." ”

“ Disgusting beast, but he's what you'd call a society swell, all right. It's funny Vedder spoke of him to you; trying to make out he's intimate with people that have got class, I suppose. Waverly goes around with Ogden a lot but he wouldn't trail with a sporting man like Sam."
"Then he wasn't at that party last Thursday night?" McCarty persisted. ”

“ He knows who 'Crawford' was all right, though he won't admit it, nor that he had the least suspicion the emeralds were the same the papers were making such a holler about when the girl was held for trial and jumped her bail. It seems that a swell who gave the name of 'Foster' had sold him a pearl necklace and some other junk and when 'Crawford' came he said 'Foster' had recommended him there. Creveling had only meant to borrow those emeralds from his wife, not steal them, for he arranged with Kosakoff to hold them for three months and agree to sell them back to him for thirty thousand ”

“ It's her own lawyers that'll help quash the indictment, and her own influence through old Alexander that'll smooth out the little matter of bail jumping, and a handsome settlement she'll make on both Hill and Ilsa. ”