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"He told me that you were the sister of the Miss Milliken who acts as stenographer for the guv' for Sir Mallaby, and sent me in to show you my revolver, because he said you were interested and wanted to see it." Billie uttered an exclamation. So did Mr. Bennett, who hated mysteries. "What revolver? Which revolver? What's all this about a revolver? Have you a revolver?" "Why, yes, Mr. Bennett.
But if some clever politician happens to get hold of Shoop, there isn't a man in this mesa country that could win against him. He's just the type that the mesa people like. He is all human. Dear Senator Collins " The stenographer bent over his book. Later, as Torrance closed his desk, he thought of an incident in Shoop's life with which he had long been familiar.
"I suppose I'll have to," grumbled the boss; "but you should have thought of that before you moved." "I did," confided the bookkeeper to the stenographer a little later, "and that's the reason I moved." A three-hundred-pound man stood gazing longingly at the nice things displayed in a haberdasher's window for a marked-down sale.
He laid a hand on Denver's arm. "Send a stenographer, and put my statement in the paper." But Denver did not warm to the idea. "My dear fellow, you seem to forget that all the evidence was pretty thoroughly sifted at the time, every possible clue followed up. The public would have been ready enough then to believe that you murdered old Lenman you or anybody else.
"She had gumption," he went on, undismayed. "And from what I can gather of her looks I calculate you favour her she was dark and not so very tall not so tall as you, I guess. Ditmar's private stenographer! He's a smart man, Mr. Ditmar, he's a good man, too. All you've got to do is to behave right by him. He always speaks to me when he passes by the gate.
The stenographer acted very queerly. At first she seemed overcome with amazement; then tears flowed from her wondering eyes; and then she smiled sunnily through them, and one of her arms slid tenderly about the broker's neck. "I know now," she said, softly. "It's this old business that has driven everything else out of your head for the time. I was frightened at first. Don't you remember, Harvey?
The Inspector disdained such futile argument. As the doorman appeared in answer to the buzzer, he directed that the stenographer be summoned at once. "We'll have the confession in due form," he remarked, gazing pleasedly on the three before him. "He's not going to confess," Mary insisted, with spirit. But Burke was not in the least impressed.
why you have opposed the President; the whole history of your campaign, why you picket, what you hope to accomplish by it. Just talk freely." I drew myself together, sat upright in bed, propped myself up for a discourse of some length, and began to talk. The stenographer whom Dr. White brought with him took down in shorthand everything that was said.
It was as if Dante had recommended some lost soul in the Inferno to occupy his mind by knitting jumpers. "Well, you seem to be in great spirits," said Sir Mallaby approvingly. "It's pleasant to hear your merry laugh again. Isn't it, Miss Milliken?" "Extremely exhilarating," agreed the stenographer, adjusting her spectacles and smiling at Sam, for whom there was a soft spot in her heart.
"What did Betty make you see?" asked George nervously, for he had not perfect confidence in Miss Sheridan's visions. "That it was all a question of efficiency. She said that in business a man's stenographer is just an instrument to make his work easier, and if for any reason at all that instrument does not suit him he is justified in getting rid of it, and in finding one that does."
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