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Editor: Chickering Carter
NICK CARTER STORIES
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Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
AN ENTERPRISING WAITER.
Alfred Knox Atherton was one of the most popular members of the "Marmawell Club." He was a man in the prime of life, but, in spite of his wealth and good looks--and in spite of the schemes of designing mothers--he was still unmarried.
As is usually the case in such places, most of the waiters at the Marmawell Club were foreigners. One among them is worthy of special mention. He was the cardroom waiter, who went by the name of Max Berne, and was understood to hail from that land of model hotel keepers and waiters, Switzerland.
Max evidently had seen a great deal of the world, although he was still a young man. Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, St. Petersburg--we beg pardon, Petrograd--mention any of these cities to Max, and he could tell you which was the quickest way of getting there, which were the best hotels to stay at, how much they would charge you, what the cooking was like, and what quality of cigars and wines they stocked.
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