I’ll call him Babbitts to you because that’s the name you’ll remember him by—that is if you know about the Hesketh Mystery. I generally call him "Soapy," the name the reporters gave him, and "Himself," which comes natural to me, my mother being Irish. Maybe you’ll remember that too? And he calls me "Morningdew"—cute, isn’t it? It’s American for my last name Morgenthau—I was Molly Morgenthau before I was married. In case you _don’t_ know about the Hesketh Mystery I’ll have to give a few facts to locate us. I was the telephone girl in Longwood, New Jersey, met Babbitts there when he was a reporter for the _Dispatch_—he is yet—and the switchboard lost one of its brightest ornaments. It was tow…
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