A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories

"Soyez tranquilles, mesdames.... Je suis un jeune homme press .... Mais modeste."-Labiche. AT ten minutes before five in the evening the office doors of the Florida and Key West Railway Company flew open, and a young man emerged in a hurry. Suit-case in one hand, umbrella in the other, he sped along the corridor to the elevator-shaft, arriving in time to catch a glimpse of the lighted roof of the cage sliding into depths below.