Chapter XIV
An indifferent swimmer, Donald Ware had avoided the afternoon sport in the tank; but after dinner, somewhat to the irritation of Graham, the violinist monopolized Paula at the piano. New guests, with the casual expectedness of the Big House, had drifted in—a lawyer, by name Adolph Well, who had come to confer with d**k over some big water-right suit; Jeremy Braxton, straight from Mexico, d**k’s general superintendent of the Harvest Group, which bonanza, according to Jeremy Braxton, was as “unpetering” as ever; Edwin O’Hay, a red-headed Irish musical and dramatic critic; and Chauncey Bishop, editor and owner of the San Francisco Dispatch , and a member of d**k’s class and frat, as Graham gleaned.
Dick had started a boisterous gambling game which he called “Horrible Fi
