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Besides , as the Colonel remarked to Mrs. Boozy on the night before election , when she told him he had let that bad man , McCafferty , ruin him entirely , and as Bockerheisen said to Mrs. Bockerheisen when she warned him that that ugly-looking Croak would be calling for her watch and weddingring next -- as they both remarked , `` What is the difference if I get the votes of the association ? Business will be good in the Board of Aldermen next year , and I can make it up . '' Who did get the votes of the association I 'm sure I ca n't say . All I know is that the Republican candidate was elected , and a Central Office detective who haunts the Forty-second Street depot reported at Headquarters on Election Day night that he had seen Dennie McCafferty , wearing evening dress and a single glass in his left eye , and Tozie Monks , The Croak , dressed as Dennie 's valet , board the six o'clock train for Chicago and the West . Mr. Maddledock did not like to wait , and , least of all , for dinner . Wobbles knew that , and when he heard the soft gong of the clock in the lower hall beat seven times , and reflected that while four guests had been bidden to dinner only three had yet come , Wobbles was agitated . Mrs. Throcton , Mr. Maddledock 's sister , and Miss Annie Throcton had arrived and were just coming downstairs from the dressing-room .