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Updated: November 20, 2025
A foreigner, dressed like an Arab, with a great bundle on his head, took two single thirds for Hull by the midnight express. 'Was he alone? 'It is believed that he was accompanied by a young man of very disreputable appearance. They were not together at the booking- office, but they had been seen together previously.
"But 'aux armes' was taken up, and spread throughout the city. War! The whole city was in tumult. The guests were leaving the hotels, the timid were preparing to fly, and shopkeepers were putting up their blinds and hiding their valuables; the parks and cafes were deserted. The railway booking office was crowded, and a babel of tongues quarreled for precedence.
In addition to sorting letters, the clerk in charge has charge of the registered mail, which requires special care in its reception and delivery, booking and receipting therefor. Large pouches of registered mail are also placed in his charge, en transit between large cities, and represent great value.
And now, after so much cracking of a nutshell, here is the kernel of the story: At the end of its second season "Mice Will Play" came back to New York for another run at the roof gardens and summer theatres. There was never any trouble in booking it at the top-notch price.
I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him. He said, "What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it you become its prey."
"Here we are, then, at the place we were merely 'to make connections, two hundred miles from our next booking and without enough money among us to buy a postage stamp. We haven't seen a cent of salary for six weeks, and the only thing we can do is to seize the props and scenery and costumes, see if they can be sold, and disband, unless somebody gallops to the rescue in a hurry.
In due time Mr Cripps returned with his friend, who was very civil on hearing Loman's desire to bet against Sir Patrick. "Make it a 50 pounds note while you are about it," said he. "No, 20 pounds is all I want to go for," replied Loman. "Twenty then, all serene, sir," said the gentleman, booking the bet. "What'll you take to drink?" "Nothing, thank you," said Loman, hurriedly rising to leave.
I will some day, but that is another story. Robert has vision. His sense of land and theater values is unfailing. He " "Well, so is your vision just as unfailing in your work. The chain didn't even begin to form before you took over the booking end." "He has fine traits, too. Big ones. His word is his bond. He has business foresight and integrity, but somehow it is his little meannesses.
"The line of Dietrich is extinct," said the Prince, booking up sharply. "So says Duke Casimir, hoping to succeed to your shoes, when he could not to your helmet and your sword. But I have my suspicions and my beliefs. There is more in the parchments of yonder library than has yet seen the light." Suddenly the Prince recollected me, standing patiently by.
Before he realized how useless it was to battle against these invisible forces, he was in Milan, booking for Como. It had all the characteristics of a tug-of-war, and irresistibly he was drawn over the line. The night before he had taken the evening boat across the lake. And Herr Rosen had been his fellow-passenger! The goddess of chance threw whimsical coils around her victims.
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