I have a bad note on Peter M-- back at Russellville
for $20 I wish somebody would collect, a membership card in the
Putnam County Farm Bureau and a New York Central pass"--
cautiously saving the best for the last.
"The pass will be sufficient." She looked at it and then at me
and said: "We will cash the draft any time you want it cashed--
now, if you want it."
"No," I said, "but if that won't run me, is there any way to cash
checks?"
We talked quite a bit--about Russellville (which she never heard
of), the wedding, the Hotel, farming, cattle and hogs, etc.
Eventually she said: "We'll cash checks for you up to $1,000, Mr.
Durham."
Well. By that time she was far, far ahead of me, so I tried to
catch up. "Miss", I said, "how long have you been Credit Manager
here?"
"About six years", she said. "Why?"
"Because you won't be Credit Manager very much longer, giving out
credit that way."
Then she did throw the witty bombshell. She said:
"Well, Mr. Durham, no one from Russellville ever gave this hotel
a bad check yet."
And after a little more talk, in which she bragged, for my
benefit, how she could tell people who wouldn't give bad checks,
I left and went upstairs and bragged to Munny how Morgan, Loeb
and I could cash checks at the Waldorf--just like that.
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