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"I don't interrupt for a moment?" He sat down on the chair opposite his father's and laid his faded cowpuncher hat and the rose on the desk. They looked odd in the company of the pushbuttons and the pile of papers in that neutral-toned room which was chilling in its monotony of color.
Set in the wall directly above the rim of the tub was a brass plate containing two pushbuttons. One button, the uppermost one, was labeled Waiter the other was labeled Maid. This was disconcerting.
Powart directed that a memorandum be made of the vote; then pressed one of a row of pushbuttons at his hand. An attendant immediately entered. "Bring File 6, Folio 1,164, Sheet 10," ordered Powart with his usual decisive exactness. The attendant disappeared, and in less than a minute returned with a large sheet of parchment. Powart immediately located the passage he desired.
You noticed two pushbuttons in your bathroom, didn't you?" "I did," I said, "and that's just the difficulty. One of them is for the maid and the other is for the waiter." "Quite so, sir," he said, "quite so. Very well, then, sir: You ring for the waiter or the maid or, if you should charnce to be in a hurry, for both of them; because, you see, one of them might charnce to be en "
Two apparently animate substances gets off the train, both carrying bags full of croquet mallets and these magic lanterns with pushbuttons. "I compares these integers with the original signatures to the letters and, well, gents, I reckon the mistake was due to my poor eyesight.
"In some ways," Jack answered; and then he came a step nearer, his hand resting on the edge of the desk, as he looked into his father's eyes with glowing candor. John Wingfield, Sr.'s eyes shifted to the pushbuttons and later to a paper on the desk, with which his fingers played gently. He realized instantly that something unusual was on Jack's mind.
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