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Then bit by bit some men just men without any qualifying adjective whatever began to get mixed up in the matter; one after another army lieutenants were detailed to help the thing along, until by and by they got the right army lieutenant and the right men and the Z. P. grew to what it is to-day, not the love, perhaps, but the pride of every "Zoner" whose name cannot be found on some old "blotter."
And it was attached to a pink blotter precisely similar to that upon which Mr. Crofts still drummed with idle fingers. "Anything more I can show you?" inquired that worthy, humorously. Langholm was gazing intently, not at the diary, but at the pink blotting-paper. Suddenly he looked up. "You say that was the last letter he ever wrote in your office?" "The very last."
When he was absorbed his habit was to tap the desk edge with the blunt end of his pencil. "Some papers for your signature, sir," said the clerk as he slipped them on the blotter in front of Westerling. "And the 132d no order about that, sir?" he asked. "None. It remains!" Westerling replied. The clerk went out impressed. His chief taking to sums of subtraction and totally preoccupied!
I never could walk straight or slow, and I never can keep step. Well, last summer I didn't want to move, and I couldn't eat, and I didn't even feel like reading. I'd have such queer slipping-away feelings right in my heart that I'd call myself a drop of ink on a blotter that was spreading and spreading and couldn't stop.
Jack's voice was even and engaging and respectful. But it seemed to fill the room with many echoing whispers. "I have a very busy day before me," the father said, still without looking up. He was talking to a little pad at one corner of the green blotter which had a list of his appointments. "Your questions are not so imperative that they cannot wait?" "Then shall it be at dinner?" Jack asked.
I conformed to the rules of the game; I soon had sense enough knocked into me to understand that the conditions were not of my making. But I'll say this for myself," Eldon Parr leaned forward over the blotter, "I had standards, and I stuck by them. I wanted to be a decent citizen, to bring up my children in the right way.
The Tracer let him alone, and bent again over his desk, drawing imaginary circles on the stained blotter, while moment after moment passed under the tension of that fiercest of all struggles, when a man sits throttling his own soul into silence. And, after a long time, Burke lifted a haggard face from the cradle of his crossed arms and shook his shoulders, drawing a deep, steady breath.
He turned away, waved to the laborers, with an, "All right, boys; go ahead," and walked grandly toward the stairway. Max whistled. "I'd like to know where Charlie is," said Peterson. "He ain't far. I'll find him;" and Max hurried away. Bannon was sitting in the office chair with his feet on the draughting-table, figuring on the back of a blotter.
His own brother is one of our reporters and what Dan did to Dave when Dave made a holler at the door is a matter of record on the emergency-hospital blotter. That's straight! Inch of sword-blade. Not dangerous, but painful!" All through this interview Lana had maintained the demeanor of one who was poised on tiptoes, ready to run.
Not even entered on the blotter to credit me with a good arrest!" The patrolman turned away in disgust. "Do you want any of the reserves, sir?" The Captain was scrupulously polite. "Not one. I'm going to study that machine again. You might detail a plain clothes man to walk along the other side of the street for luck. Good-day."
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