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Dick's first interview with Hammer is very unsatisfactory, but he resolves to bide his time. While they are talking, Irene, in another part of the hotel, finds a stray baby at her door with a note asking her above all things not to send it to an institution. The whole thing is a plot of one of the hotel maids to blackmail the rich guests. Irene wants to keep the baby, but is prevented by her worldly and very prim aunt, Mrs. Pomeroy Pomfret who sends her down to dinner, bidding her leave the baby for the present, for they have an important dinner engagement with the rich Mr, Hammer.
While this is going on in Irene's rooms, Dick has finished his interview and he and Red are having a consultation about Hammer. Red opines that if they could only get hold of some papers of Hammer's they could prove his guilt.
Dick impulsively starts down the fire escape to open Hammer's safe. Unfortunately, he is almost caught by Hammer himself and Irene, who have returned to Hammer's rooms. The latter has promised to help Irene take care of the baby, which she mentions only as a "foundling," and has come back to get some money from his safe.
Dick escapes by a narrow margin by popping into the nearest room on the
fire escape — which happens to be that of Irene's aunt. Here he runs into the
secret of her life — her wig ! Hearing people coming to look for him, Dick has
only time to clap this on his head, wrap himself in an evening coat of Mrs. Pom
fret's and tell the searchers that the thief went in an opposite direction.
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Next he frightens Mrs, Pomfret into introducing him as her friend, the Princess Martini, traveling incognito (for there was no 'princess 'registered, i and he wished to avoid too close questioning. ) Thus it is that he continues I
his stay at the hotel as the 'Princess,' entirely captivating the men, es I
pecially Hammer, and taking charge of Irene's foundling for her. His efforts |i along this line are humorous in the extreme.
It is only when Dick is accused by the unscrupulous maid, first of being the baby's mother, and later, when he has revealed his identity, as its father, that matters come to a crisis.
Dick has now enough evidence to convict Hammer through his valet, and he decides to return to the ranch with the baby, of which he has grown too fond to part. Before going, however, he returns Mrs. Pomfret 's wig and sends the suspicious Irene a note, saying that if she chooses to believe the ignorant maid all right — but in his country people take their friends for granted, adding that if she'll take him that way, she'll find his address at the top of the page. Needless to say — Irene takes him — for granted.
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