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When Tottie Bones left the dark and dirty den that was the only home she had ever known, she ran lightly out into the neighbouring street, and, threading her way among people and vehicles, entered an alley, ascended a stair, and found herself in a room which bore some resemblance to an empty schoolroom. At one corner there was a desk, at which stood a young man at work on a business-looking book.
He made some sort of rough apology, drew the writing materials to him, wrote one or two business-looking letters, and made out one or two more checks. "Here's yours Ascott; take it, and let me have done with it," said he, throwing it across the table folded up. "Can't waste time on such small transactions.
In another two minutes the American submarine had gained the surface, her hatches were thrown open and the men swarmed out on deck -to life and freedom! Trapped in the German wireless station with a burly Prussian at the other end of the business-looking revolver, Jack Hammond was completely at the mercy of his captor.
There, lying moored to the wharf, at a point exactly opposite a tumble-down sail-loft, was one of those strongly-built tugs which ply between the fishing fleets and the ports. It was an eminently business-looking craft, rakish for its class, and it bore marks of much recent sea usage.
Auntie Sue, while joining in the laughter, and acknowledging the introduction, regarded the business-looking gentleman by the window with intense interest. "I think," she said, slowly, and the sweetness of her low, cultured voice was very marked in contrast to the Sheriff's thundering tones, "I think, sir, that this is the first time in my life that I ever saw a real detective.
And the quiet, business-looking detective, whose life had been spent in combating crime and deception, answered, as he waved farewell to Auntie Sue, who watched them from the door of the little log house by the river, "A very wonderful woman, indeed, the loveliest old lady I have ever met, and the most remarkable."
The foreman, a near-sighted business-looking person, seemed to radiate sympathy through his glasses. The district attorney, Kirkpatrick, knew Jim well, had his help often and was one of his best friends. "What is your name?" he asked. "Warren Thompson." "Your address?" "Eleven thirty-two Grant Avenue." "Your business?" "I am a lawyer," I responded.
She has not left the house, and there have been many business-looking callers at the Stillwell house. Boardman or Warner is there on duty all the while, in alternation. Watch them." Shame, rage, and fear struggled for the mastery on Ferris' pale cheeks as he dismissed the paid spy. "Tell your chief I'll call in and give him my final directions to-day," he curtly said.
"I'm rather surprised to see you here, Nancarrow," he said, when he had taken his seat behind a business-looking desk, and pointed Bob to a chair. "I'm rather surprised myself, sir." "What have you been doing since I saw you last?" Bob told him. "And now you want to enlist?" "If I can, sir." "What as?" "Anything, sir. For the front, if it is possible. I want to be at it."
On the entablature is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who inaugurated Sir Richard Gresham's structure the centre figure of a number of others emblematic of the all-embracing commerce of this country, and surmounted by the words: 'The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. If you ascend the steps of the Royal Exchange, and pass into the body of the building, you will find a considerable number of business-looking, sleek, earnest men there, eagerly engaged in canvassing the general affairs of the world, and more especially their own particular ventures, hopes, anticipations, investments therein.
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