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Meantime poor but honest Myron has discovered his career (hotelkeeping) and his ambition (to build and run the Perfect Inn). Through long and unamusing years he works his way up through every job in every kind of hotel until he is making good pay as an expert with a reputation. Then he sinks everything into his Perfect Inn, only to face failure when a murder and suicide on the gala opening night give the place a noisome name. Bloody but unbowed, Myron goes back to an underling's job. The story ends with his running a country hotel...
When he writes of the fortuitous tragedy that wrecked Myron's inn. Author Sinclair reports it as he thinks TIME would have...
...Inn...
...camp-meeting ground is not a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bidawee, Restawhile, or Dewdrop Inn, as you state in your article...
...camp-meeting ground is now a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bideawee, Restawhile, Dewdrop Inn. There are several faintly classic concert & lecture halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat...