In the Driftway.

This article focuses on the argument between the Drifter and the hotel clerk. There is evidently something wrong with the Drifter's appearance, for no hotel clerk has ever expressed the smallest desire to shake his hand. If one should do so it may be that he, too, would be betrayed by success. In the meantime he wishes for the courage of a robust lady of his acquaintance. "You," she said, witheringly, pointing a finger almost too near the Drifter's eye, "are nothing but a philosopher. Drifter was not the sort that can deal properly with hotel clerks and taxi-drivers.