Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott

“ Sometimes, when mists hung low, blotting out the night lights of Manhattan, she and the huge dog seemed to sleep among the stars.
Apollo, the Great Dane, had been given to Nita when a pup, but he had never forgotten the man who had brought him to the tower apartment and placed his leash in the girl's hand. Sometimes when the man and girl were together he was still sorely troubled to know upon whose knees he should lay his massive head.
"This is Apollo, the bringer of sudden death," Richard Wentworth had said when he brought the overgrown puppy to the tower apartment. . . ”

“ When the world is dry and dead you are a bubbling brook and, when the world is coarse and mad, you are a limpid pool in a forest glade. The secret reason for life lies in the touch of your lips and the feel of your arms. ”

“ To her intense surprise a stiff hall man bowed her in the direction of an elevator.
"Mistaken for somebody else," thought Nita and stepped into the elevator followed by Apollo.
Without any question the elevator man shot the car up to the floor she named. Nita noticed that his uniform did not seem to fit him very well. And as she stepped out of the elevator she decided that something was decidedly wrong. Things were being made altogether too easy for her.
The elevator descended and left Nita and the dog in a private hall outside the apartment of Richard Wentworth. ”

“ Man leaving darkened room Nita watching from the shadows Not many young women would have entered an unlighted apartment under such uncertain conditions. Not many young women, however, are accompanied by such a dog as Apollo. ”

“ She patted the dog's head. "Maybe we can do some good."
The great structure on Park Avenue, where Richard Wentworth lived when in town, was always fully staffed, day and night. And Nita was in some doubt regarding her ability to obtain admission to his rooms. She knew that it was practically an impossibility for a young woman to ascend, unannounced, in one of the elevators if she were not well known. She had a key to the apartment and power of attorney to act for Wentworth in his absence. ”