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"Besides, sir," he said, "you say he came to deposit valuables of some kind here?" "Yes, yes!" I cried eagerly. "I take all such things down on the lift to the vaults at night, sir, under the supervision of the assistant manager and I can assure you that nothing of the kind has been left with us to-day." I stepped out of the call-box unsteadily. Indeed, I clutched at the door for support.
Receiving no reply, he ran forward a few steps, throwing us into temporary shadow, looked round uncertainly, and then struck with a fresh idea, plunged into the road and made for the fire call-box at the corner. And almost as though his presence had been the cause of the fire, it dimmed, flickered, flared and went out, leaving us in darkness. Slowly we moved towards it. The patrolman came back.
He had a telephone in a room at the rear which customers were allowed to use on payment of a fee, and a public call-box would not serve my purpose, since the operator usually announces to a subscriber the fact that a call emanated from such an office. The shop was closed, but I rang the bell at the side door and obtained permission to use the telephone upon pleading urgency.
For Silver all other minor pleasures in life were as nothing to the fierce joy he knew when, with a dozen men clinging to the hand-rails, the captain pulling the bell-rope and Lannigan, far up above them all, swaying on the lines, the Gray Horse Truck swept up Broadway to a first call-box. It was like trotting to music, if you've ever done that.
Coming out of the call-box, Stuart proceeded home, but made one or two professional visits before he actually returned to the house. He had broken the cork of a flask, and in the absence of another of correct size had manufactured a temporary stopper with a small cork to the top of which he had fixed the Chinese coin with a drawing-pin.
Dashing away from the call-box, Mike nearly cannoned into Psmith, who was making his way pensively to the telephone with the object of ringing up the box office of the Haymarket Theatre. 'Sorry, said Mike. 'Hullo, Smith. 'Hullo indeed, said Psmith, courteously. 'I rejoice, Comrade Jackson, to find you going about your commercial duties like a young bomb.
He led the way to a hutch on which a tall tripod carried an aerial. There were no windows, and it appeared to be a kind of sound-proof call-box, which indeed it was. We went in and as the door closed, a cluster of three green lights, very small but of extraordinary brilliance, showed up above a set of instruments. D'Aubigné sat down and put a pair of receivers to his ears.
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