Chapter 1. Mr. Craig Arrays Himself
_ CHAPTER I. MR. CRAIG ARRAYS HIMSELF
It was one of the top-floor-rear flats in the Wyandotte, not merely biggest of Washington‘s apartment hotels, but also "most exclusive"--which is the elegant way of saying most expensive. The Wyandotte had gone up before landlords grasped the obvious truth that in a fire-proof structure locations farthest from noise and dust should and could command highest prices； so Joshua Craig‘s flat was the cheapest in the house. The ninety dollars a month loomed large in his eyes, focused to little-town ideas of values； it was, in fact, small for shelter in "the de luxe district of the de luxe quarter," to quote Mrs. Senator Mulvey, that simple, far- Western soul, who, finding snobbishness to be the chief distinguishing mark of the Eastern upper classes, assumed it was a virtue, acquired it laboriously, and practiced it as openly and proudly as a preacher does piety. Craig‘s chief splendor was a sitting-room, called

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