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At last the day came when Amelia, carrying the parrot, followed her into the brougham. Augustus had preceded them to the station, and with infinite fuss of maids and footman, and stray card-board boxes, and final directions, the whole party disappeared down the drive, and I was left standing on the red-granite steps. A sudden sense of exaltation came over me.
Over yonder the Schenley, in its vacant stretch, loomed big and square through the fine rain, the windows of its twelve stories glowing like those of a lighted card-board house under a Christmas tree. All the actors and singers of any importance stayed there when they were in the city, and a number of the big manufacturers of the place lived there in the winter.
Clarke shrugged his shoulders. "You can do as you wish. The guides say their manifestations are antagonized by light and that darkness is necessary for these special phenomena of the cone." "Oh, we have no cone!" exclaimed Mrs. Lambert. "Cone? What cone?" asked Weissmann. "We need some sort of megaphone to enlarge the spirit-voices." "Make one of card-board," suggested Viola.
Then, with much flourish of chalk, Miss Stone printed "GIRL" upon the board, and proceeded to elucidate, as follows: "Now, this that I have written upon the board is not 'Lollie, for she is on the platform yet; nor is it the picture, for that is on the card-board, but it is the word 'girl, and whenever I see it, it makes me think girl.
The pupils were asked if the girl on the platform was the same as the one on the card-board, and there was a unanimous opinion that they were not identical.
By her advice I published my address in the advertisement column. The same day there arrived through the post a small card-board box addressed to me, which I found to contain a very large and lustrous pearl. No word of writing was enclosed. Since then every year upon the same date there has always appeared a similar box, containing a similar pearl, without any clue as to the sender.
If an active conductor a conductor conveying an electric current, as, for example, a copper wire be passed vertically through a piece of card-board, or a glass plate, iron filings dusted on the card or plate will arrange themselves in concentric circles around the axis of the wire. It requires an expenditure of energy both to set up and to maintain these lines of force.
It's disguised, of course, and the addressing was done by two different people that's plain." "You are wonderful, Josie!" "I'm stupid as a clam, Mary Louise. See here!" she went to a closet and brought out a large card-board box, which she placed upon the table. It was filled to the brim with envelopes, addressed to many business firms in Dorfield, but all bearing the local postmark.
These announcements were printed in blue on grey card-board, and the boys, sinking into chairs at the nearest table, read them avidly: "Beef Stew, 15 Cents"; "Pork and Beans, 10 Cents"; "Boiled Rice and Milk, 10 Cents"; "Coffee and Crullers, 10 Cents"; "Oysters in Season"; "Small Steak, 30 Cents"; "Buy a Ticket $5.00 for $4.50"; "Corn Beef Hash, 15 Cents; With 1 Poached Egg, 20 Cents."
There were the busy attendants bustling to and fro, and beyond them and beyond those vaults and dim recesses was the passage leading to the sanctum of the head librarian. A young girl, standing within the lattice, was noting the numbers of some books upon a slip of card-board, and, with quick decision, Elmendorf addressed her. "Pardon me," said he, "I have to go into Mr. Wells's office at once.
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