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In the Fog, by Richard Harding Davis
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Title: In the Fog
Author: Richard Harding Davis
Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7884] Posting Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
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IN THE FOG
By Richard Harding Davis
[Illustration: 01 I cannot tell you how much I have to thank you for]
[Illustration: 02 The four strangers at supper were seated together]
CHAPTER I
The Grill is the club most difficult of access in the world. To be placed on its rolls distinguishes the new member as greatly as though he had received a vacant Garter or had been caricatured in "Vanity Fair."
Men who belong to the Grill Club never mention that fact. If you were to ask one of them which clubs he frequents, he will name all save that particular one. He is afraid if he told you he belonged to the Grill, that it would sound like boasting.
The Grill Club dates back to the days when Shakespeare's Theatre stood on the present site of the "Times" office. It has a golden Grill which Charles the Second presented to the Club, and the original manuscript of "Tom and Jerry in London," which was bequeathed to it by Pierce Egan himself.