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"I took the magazine, and a set of Chaucer in a revolving bookcase, from one of their agents last month and have paid my dollar." In a moment another message came over the wire. "The gentleman says he wants to see you about writing a couple of full-page sonnets for the Christmas number," the office man 'phoned up. "Show him up," I replied, instantly.
They laughed, but the vet phoned my employers and what they said, I never knew; but I do know that they gave me my friend, and that about midnight I got him home, weak and tottering, and put him out in our back garden, and told Maw all about it. I thought she would understand and she did. She understands everything. Everything! No one else ever could. And so um-m-mh!
She couldn't go in the rain. The butler had 'phoned for a cab. She wouldn't sit there alone and neglected. She deliberately signaled Mr. Prime. "The ladies are all busy," she said, with a charmingly appealing smile, "but I know you can tell me. I have to dress for dinner after I get home, and must be at One Hundred and Tenth Street at 7:30. How long will it take a carriage to drive me there?
I can have my machine here in a minute. No?" as Worth declined with a wordless shake of the head. I hoped he'd leave then; but he didn't. Instead, he turned back to his chair, explaining, "If Mrs. Thornhill's cook hadn't phoned me, when Mrs. Thornhill had a second collapse last night, I suppose I should be in San Francisco still.
Picked up a black smoke down below, here right down there! I got the number on the chart and phoned it in, and the lookout on Claremont didn't yeep about it. So they called up and asked him to come alive and report. By that time the smoke had moved from where I saw it, and the whole train was in sight from his station, coming round the hill into Marston.
At last we found a staff car that promised to give us a lead, and in time we reached the main St. Omer road, finally getting back to Pont-le-Beurre about 10 p.m. I 'phoned up to the Convoy to tell them I was still in the land of the living, and after a bowl of hot soup sped back to camp. My hands were so cold I had to sit on them in turns, and as for feet, I didn't seem to have any.
Podmore followed Alderson to the window. "Naw, over there to the right beside the post. Must be a good half hour since his office phoned he was leavin'. Say, he's lookin' up here. I'll give 'm the high sign now." "Well, I guess everything's O.K., then. Call in your messenger and get a move on. I'm due at the depot soon to meet the Chief."
She decided to talk it out with him, show him the letter, and then decide. Eugene came in a day or two, having phoned Monday and Tuesday mornings. He made a rendezvous of the ice house, and then appeared as eager and smiling as ever. Since returning to the office and seeing no immediate sign of a destructive attitude on Angela's part, he had recovered his courage.
Hutschnecker, called to the telephone, spoke briefly, listened for a while, spoke again in hearty thanks, and hung up. "Macy & Gimbel's," he told Prestonby. "They heard about our trouble probably one of their price-spotters phoned in about it and they're offering to send twenty of their store-cops to help us out. They'll be landing on our stage in eight minutes, rifles and steel helmets."
He 'phoned me early in the evening saying that he had an unavoidable business appointment to keep. From the tone of his voice " She ceased speaking abruptly, and stared at me rather wildly. "Isobel," I said, "you should surely know that you can trust your life to me and the life of any one dear to you." She quickly laid her hand on my arm and her face flushed sweetly.
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