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Setting the vertical line, he fingered a tabulating machine with his right hand, as he adjusted the second line with his left, thus cross-fixing the meteor. Then he turned his whole attention to the tabulator, ripped off the answer with lightning moves of his fingers and began talking rapidly into the microphone. "Radar bridge to control deck!

He poured it forth with glee the improved mechanical appliances, the cuts in the catalogue, the platen roller, the ribbon switch, the twenty-six yards of red or blue typing, the fifty per cent. saving in ribbon expenditure alone, the new basket shift, the stationary carriage, the tabulator, the superiority to all other typewriting machines the price one hundred dollars without discount.

No mere tabulator of facts was he, but a dissector of the causes back of all the manifestation which he observed and studied and classified with the mental power of a god. Nor is there lacking ample proof that Emerson experienced the phenomenon of the suddenness of cosmic consciousness a degree of which he seems to have possessed from earliest youth.

He began to talk incoherently in good, nasal New York, at the mere sound of which Lady Anstruthers made a little yearning step forward. "Superior any other," he muttered. "Tabulator spacer marginal release key call your 'tention instantly 'justable Delkoff no equal on market." And having found what he had fumbled for, he handed a card to Miss Vanderpoel and sank unconscious on her breast.

Lewis Fenn was a grave looking, solemn-faced chap, who, it was evident took seriously the responsibility of his position as tabulator and in part, custodian of valuable treasures. He bowed to the girls, but said nothing beyond a word of greeting to each. "You see," said Mr. Forbes, "I locked this room myself, after you girls last evening, and nobody could get in to take the earring.

"They sent 'Tabulator' Burke up for ballot frauds," said a voter who stood up in a far corner. "But anybody in this city understands well enough that the judge who sent him to state prison knew who the real chaps were, knew how much the real ones paid 'Tabulator' to take the whole blame. And the governor knows it all and has just reappointed that judge."

I've been studying the design of the Election Tabulator, and I've discovered a wonderful opportunity for you and me. "Now listen it's possible to replace two transmitters on the main teletype trunk so that a winning percentage of the incoming votes will be totaled up for my party. Simple little job, isn't it? Worth a hundred thousand!"

The boy blinked back a tear and nodded wordlessly. In the late afternoon Philon landed at Washington and under an assumed name made his way to the government building housing the big Election Tabulator. At the technical maintenance offices Philon asked, "Is Al Brant around?" "Nope. He doesn't come on duty until tomorrow." At Brant's address Philon knocked on an apartment door.

On all other machines it is fastened by a series of connecting bolts and links, which you will readily understand makes perfect alignment uncertain. Then our tabulator is a part and parcel of the instrument, costing you nothing more than the original price of the machine, which is one hundred dollars without discount." "It seems a good thing," said Mount Dunstan.

Right ahead, however, he saw what looked like a communicating underground trench; and at certain intervals were openings. These openings revealed to him a blurring, moving mass, muddy gray, yet with glints here and there as of some substance brighter. Closer yet he flew, regardless of safety. His air tabulator was not working.