In the novel At Bertram's Hotel, Elmer Cabot is an American tourist, who stays at Bertram's Hotel with his wife, Mrs Cabot.
After their stay at Bertram's Hotel, Mr and Mrs Cabot plan to travel to Paris, where they will stay at the Hotel Vendôme. Their belongings, consisting of "various vast American wardrobe cases and suitcases", are loaded into a taxi.