When the maid came in to make up the bed, she found the room was empty. It was terribly cold in the room on the forty-fifth floor. When Peter Novins did not return that day, or the next, the management of the’ Americana marked him as a skip, and turned it over to a collection agency.
In due course the bill was sent to Peter Novins’s apartment on Manhattan’s upper east side.
It was promptly paid, by Peter Jay Novins, with a brief, but
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