The Colonel of the Red Huzzars

It was raining heavily, and I fastened my overcoat to the neck as I came down the steps of the Government Building. Pushing through the crowds and clanging electric cars, at the Smithfield Street corner, I turned toward Penn Avenue and the Club, whose home is in a big, old-fashioned, grey-stone building- sole remnant of aristocracy in that section where, once, naught else had been.