John Reed Scott (1869-? ) was the author of The Colonel of the Red Huzzars (1906), Beatrix of Clare (1907), The Woman in Question (1909), The Make- Believe; or, The Imposter (1911) and The Cab of the Sleeping Horse (1916). "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. "