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He simply included Sally in his orders on the phone. He hung up and said briefly: "The plane will be surveyed and taken apart as soon as possible. By the time you find your man you can probably examine the crates. I'll have you cleared for it." His secretary reached in a drawer for order forms to fill out and hand him to sign. Sally tugged at Joe's arm. They left.
Beyond doubt I had forgotten that we had any appointment whatever that evening, and some surprise must have shown upon my face, for "Really you are becoming very forgetful!" my friend continued. "You know we can no longer trust the 'phone. I have to leave certain instructions for Weymouth at the rendezvous!"
"But there's nothing more fun than kittens, and we'll have plenty of laughs with these. You wait and see!" The Egyptian Museum Rick hung up the room phone and joined Scotty at the breakfast table. The ex-Marine was munching on a Lebanese tangerine and watching the Nile boats below. "Farid says to take the morning off," Rick reported.
"Right," he agreed, suddenly assuming the abrupt accents of an improbable Englishman, "oh very right, old chap. Let's toddle along and see what Fu Manchu has to say for himself. First off though I shall have to phone in to Fleet Street I mean to W R." "Fine. You can ask him at the same time to authorize you to give me the other thirty." Gootes lost his British speech instantly.
It struck Madeline that Florence stayed rather long indoors. Presently she came out with sober face and rather tight lips. "I couldn't get anybody on the 'phone. No answer. I tried a dozen times." "Why, Florence!" Madeline was more concerned by the girl's looks than by the information she imparted. "The wire's been cut," said Florence.
An obliging hotel clerk clerks were always obliging to Miss Jeffries gave her the number and she slipped into the booth feeling a ridiculous amount of excitement and suspense. She had never telephoned in Cairo only been telephoned to and she was not prepared for the fact that the telephone company was French. At the phone girl's "Numero? Quel numero, s'il vous plait?"
She swept and wiped up herself the expansive floors of the two large parlors, set the rooms in order, dusted the innumerable wedding present knickknacks, cleaned the stairs, wiped free from dust the carved balustrades, ordered the bedrooms that were to serve as dressing rooms in the evening, answered the 'phone a thousand times, arranged flowers in the vases, received a reportorial call from Miss Burgess, gave cut glass and china its final polish, laid out Paul's evening clothes and arranged her own toilet ready it was five o'clock!
His mind even turned to rosy-colored dreams of a tender reconciliation inside the camel there hidden away from all the world.... "Now you'd better decide right off." The bourgeois voice of Mrs. Nolak broke in upon his mellow fancies and roused him to action. He went to the phone and called up the Medill house. Miss Betty was out; had gone out to dinner.
By the time Keating had rounded up all the regular Melroy Engineering Corporation employees and Melroy had talked to Colonel Bradshaw about security-clearance, it was 1430. A little later, he was called on the phone by Leighton, the Atomic Power Authority man. "Melroy, what are you trying to do?" the Power Authority man demanded. "Get this whole plant struck shut?
Each of these was in continuous interphone communication with his subordinates in other posts throughout the ship. Each viewplate had its phone connecting with its "eye machines" on the hull, the crews of which would switch from telescopic to normal view at command. There were, of course, many other viewplates at executive posts throughout the ship.
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