It's all going to
come out right--and allow me to recommend the salad, which is
especially good."
Van Bibber first drove madly to the Little Church Around the Corner,
where he told the kind old rector all about it, and arranged to have
the church open and the assistant organist in her place, and a
district-messenger boy to blow the bellows, punctually at three
o'clock. "And now," he soliloquized, "I must get some names. It
doesn't matter much whether they happen to know the high contracting
parties or not, but they must be names that everybody knows. Whoever
is in town will be lunching at Delmonico's, and the men will be at the
clubs." So he first went to the big restaurant, where, as good luck
would have it, he found Mrs. "Regy" Van Arnt and Mrs. "Jack" Peabody,
and the Misses Brookline, who had run up the Sound for the day on the
yacht _Minerva_ of the Boston Yacht Club, and he told them how things
were and swore them to secrecy, and told them to bring what men they
could pick up.
At the club he pressed four men into service who knew everybody and
whom everybody knew, and when they protested that they had not been
properly invited and that they only knew the bride and groom by sight,
he told them that made no difference, as it was only their names he
wanted.
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