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He passed a sort of crude, partitioned-off apartment that did duty for the establishment's office, a sort of little boxed-in place it was, about in the middle of the floor. Jimmie Dale's light played on it for a moment, but he kept on toward the front door without any pause. Every movement was quick, sure, accurate, with not a wasted second.
We have only twenty of these machines and they handle all the cards." "It's hard to believe," said Hamilton wonderingly, "that these machines don't think." "We're just building one in here," the supervisor replied, leading the way into a little partitioned-off section of the room, "that has an uncanny ingenuity. This machine feeds itself with cards, verifies and tabulates at an incredible speed.
He had long ago ceased to have any consciousness of the vapors that poured from the bins and the incoming catches into his little partitioned-off office.
Some hidden factory sent up a yellow glare, that lit for a moment the waters lapping oilily against timbers. The varied sounds of life, made joyous by distance and seeming unapproachableness, came faintly and died away to a silence. In a partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen women, gleefully laughing, hovering about him.
"Oh, well, then, Ferguson, you'd better come with me, and we will make a search for them." Ferguson cursed inwardly. This would mean at least half-an-hour wasted; and he could so easily have found another pair. The School House changing-room is a noble affair. It is about seventy feet long and sixty wide. All round it run small partitioned-off benches; in the middle are stands for corps clothes.
Our captors were not far out! We sat around on wooden benches, in a small partitioned-off space, and noticed that the crockery on which the food was served had been taken from other ships captured one of the Burns Philp Line, and one of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.
In the first place there was no house, which demanded the service and the protection of a strong male, merely a partitioned-off corner in a ten-story brick box, where no man was necessary even to shake the furnace or lock the front door.
Dave pulled off some more boards, put his arm in through a broken pane, clicked the catch back, and then pushed up the window and got in. I handed in the swags to him. The room was very draughty; the wind came in through the broken window and the cracks between the slabs, so we tried the partitioned-off room the bedroom and that was better.
The house itself was floored roughly, with cracks between the boards; there were cracks between the slabs all round though he'd nailed strips of tin, from old kerosene-tins, over some of them; the partitioned-off bedroom was lined with old chaff-bags with newspapers pasted over them for wall-paper.
"There we are," said the mate, with a laugh, as he turned to the American. "Yes, there you are, lufftenant. Bit heavy, wasn't it?" "Oh, no, nothing much. Now, my lads, look alive!" There was a chorus of: "Ay, ay, sir!" and a few minutes later the contents of the last truck were reposing in the partitioned-off space in the brig's hold.
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