3 A.M
I asked you girls to be decent to those reporters ; it never pays to offend a newspaper man . Listen to this , Kit . '' He read the article rapidly , furiously , pausing every now and then to make an exasperated comment . ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE FRUSTRATED MEMBERS OF THE FOUR HUNDRED DEFY THE LAW `` Special Officer McCloud , on duty at the quarantined house of James Wilson , artist and clubman , on Ninety-fifth Street , reported this morning a daring attempt at escape , made at 3 A.M. . It is in this house that some eight or nine members of the smart set were imprisoned during the course of a dinner party , when the Japanese butler developed smallpox . The party shut in the house includes Miss Katherine McNair , the daughter of Theodore McNair , of the Inter-Ocean system ; Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Brown ; the Misses Mercer ; Maxwell Reed , the well-known clubman and whip ; and a Mr. Thomas Harbison , guest of the Dallas Browns and a South American . `` Officer McCloud 's story , told to a Chronicle reporter this morning , is as follows : The occupants of the house had been uneasy all day .