wood fretwork imported from abroad, carved like vines, with stars and crescents and snakes and wood roses all mixed up together.
Then inside, say, that living-room was two stories high, with a balcony running along three sides of it, and a lot of dandy Navajo rugs and college banners and banners advertising the Little Titan Oil Cleanser and Rotary banners and Coolidge for President banners and all like that hanging over the railing of the balcony—and of course I was especially glad to see the Coolidge banners, because as Billy Dodd here knows, Coolidge and I have always been great pals, and I've had a high old time with him in the White House, talking about taxation and the situation in China.
And the furniture—say, Joe may be just one of your roughneck business men, but the imagination he showed about the furniture in that main living-room, which was also the dining-room, was something that just took your breath away.
Say, the fireplace was composed of every sort and kind of stone to be found within forty miles
