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Now I don't want you to be bothered about it, but I do wish you could give me an idea where to send them." "You have some written?" She smiled. "I have two in that little parcel there." He broke the string and took one out. It was very neatly typewritten, and a quick glance down the page pleased him. "Who typed it for you?" he asked. "Did it myself," she answered.
The message that it bore had been typed crudely as if the person who had done it were a novice in the use of the typewriter. It consisted of two straggling lines and the words were: "Beware of Teeny-bits! Holbrook is not his name! He's ashamed to tell the truth!" Two dozen boys saw the paper and read the message before Snubby Turner tore it down and carried it up to Teeny-bits' room.
It was just a strip, queer, official looking, with a few lines typed upon it and a black heading that sprang out at one strangely. They read it together or tried to. At first they got no sense from it. Paris from clear off in France and then the words below and Maw's name at the top, just like the address on the newspaper: MRS. JERE HAYNES, Stony Brook, New York. It was for Maw all right.
"I should like you to see them," persisted Peters, drawing a big bundle of papers from his pocket and proceeding to remove and roll up with his usual precise neatness the tape that confined them. He pushed the typed sheets across the little table. "I don't think you will find any error. The estate accounts are all straightforward.
"Here, in my pocket-book." They silently compared the two typed sheets. It needed no expert to note that they had been written by the same machine. "It would take a clever counsel to upset that piece of evidence," said Winter. "I wish I had hold of the writer." "You have spoken to him several times." "Surely you cannot mean Jiro!" "Who else? Jiro is but the tool of a superior scoundrel.
She told me she had once taken down an eighty-thousand-word book, typed it, and seen it through the press, because the author was nearly blind. So she would really know all about the work." "Yes." Toni wondered, dully, why the sunshine which poured over her held no warmth to-day. "Well, I'll drop a line to Barry and ask him if he can spare her for a bit.
I managed to record for about three minutes and when I played the recording on another machine at normal speed the cylinder yielded up its secret it was high speed morse traffic in 5-figure cypher. I typed it all out and noticed that some of the paragraphs began with the letter 'B'. I subsequently found out it was a characteristic of stations carrying Royal Air Force traffic.
Thus Hercules was compelled to serve Eurystheus; and his twelve labors were typed in the twelve signs of the zodiac. Æsculapius and Prometheus both suffered excruciating tortures and death for the good of men. And Dionysus himself the centre of all joy was persecuted by the Queen of Heaven and compelled to wander in the world.
The list was typed on thin sheets; of foolscap and contained the names of stockholders, but as it had lain rolled up in the bottom of Mr. Elderberry's desk for five years without being disturbed it was inclined to resist the gentle pressure of Mr. Greenbaum's fingers. Mr.
I have also drawn up, and had typed, a brief sketch of young Henley's life, which will aid you in playing the part. You will need a new outfit of clothes, I presume?" "This is my best suit." "I thought it probable. Now, if you will sign this paper, I will hand you a liberal advance." I read it over slowly, but it appeared innocent enough.
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