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"Suppose it does!" exclaimed Ward; "anybody can collect type-written speeches and lists of names. That's a messenger boy's job. Where's there any heart-interest in a Wall Street broker like Flagg waving a silver trowel and singing, 'See what a good boy am! and a lot of grownup men in pinafores saying, 'This stone is well and truly laid. Where's the story in that?"
It was type-written, and ran thus: "DEAR MR. MORDAN: Mr. Chas. N. Pierce directs me to inform you that after the expiration of the present month your services will no longer be required by the editor of the Daily Gazette. "I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, JAMES MARTIN, Secretary."
A moment later she read: "... join me in this business. I make you this offer entirely from a friendly, and not from a financial, standpoint, hoping that you like me well enough to be associated with me." "Anything else, Mr. Denham?" "No. I think that covers the whole ground. It will look rather short, type-written, won't it?
He finished distributing the other letters among the boxes, for people were waiting outside the partition; then he opened the envelope and read the type-written enclosure.
Indeed, the sight of that tiny type-written slip had stirred Brett to volcanic activity. He tramped backwards and forwards, enveloped in smoke. Once he halted and tore at the bell. A waiter came. "Go to my room, No. 11, and bring me a leather dressing-case, marked 'R.B. Run! I give you twenty seconds. After that you lose sixpence a second out of your tip." He pulled out his watch.
Satan, with an expression of somewhat ruffled dignity, "we always allow leap year, but, of course, thirteen years will count as twelve." "Of course," said Mrs. Bergmann with equal dignity. "Then perhaps you will not mind signing the contract at once," said Mr. Satan, drawing from his pocket a type-written page. Mrs. Bergmann walked to the writing-table and took the paper from his hand.
Dunham shifted his feet in the silence and licked his dry lips. "Of course it's big, but Mr. McNamara's the biggest man that ever came to Alaska," he said. "And I've got the biggest scheme that ever came north, backed by the biggest men in Washington," continued the politician. "Look here!" He displayed a type-written sheet bearing parallel lists of names and figures. Struve gasped incredulously.
"I will obey, mother." "I believe it, my child. The preparations are all made; everything is ready. Here is a letter of credit; spend freely, there is no lack of money. At times you may need disguises. I have provided them; also some other conveniences." She took from the drawer of the type-writer-table several squares of paper. They all bore these type-written words: $10,000 REWARD
I've taken the pains to put into that type-written document the names, the dates, the places, the deeds, the names of the witnesses and all the essential facts. Do what you please with it. If you do what I think you will, some men who are wearing purple and fine linen will be wearing stripes before another year and you will be the biggest man in New York." "And your motive?" "Does it matter?"
Before showing it to me he insisted on my reading what he called his statement of the case. It occupied four sheets of quarto paper, closely type-written. It accused Bob Power and McNeice of using the Finola for smuggling without the owner's knowledge. It made out, I am bound to say, quite a good case. He had collected every possible scrap of evidence, down to Rose's new brooch.
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