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Then, he seated himself, pressed the desk call-button, and, when he had learned that Edward Gilder was arrived, ordered that the magnate and the District Attorney be admitted, and that the son, also, be sent up from his cell. "It's a bad business, sir," Burke said, with hearty sympathy, to the shaken father, after the formal greetings that followed the entrance of the two men.
"What must be, must," said he, rising. Moving to the wall, he pressed a call-button, and simultaneously whipped a revolver into view. "I hope you're not armed," he protested sincerely. "It would only make things messy. And then I hate to have my employees run any risk " "You are summoning a posse, I take it?" enquired P. Sybarite, likewise on his feet. "Half a dozen huskies," assented the other.
But when he finally climbed the stair of the Crow's Nest to tap at Lidgerwood's door, he brought the first authentic news from the camp of the enemy. When McCloskey had come at a push of the call-button, Lidgerwood snapped the night-latch on the corridor door.
He pushed his chair noisily back, and we all rose. "'You won't wait for coffee? said our host. 'Just as you please. He touched the call-button, and Jarman entered to help us on with our top-coats. Par parenthese, how account for the anomaly of this scoundrel of a Balencourt possessing the most perfect of serving-men?
The pink-cheeked, white-haired woman looked up. You saw that her eyes were wonderfully young. She made three marks on a piece of paper, pushed a call-button at her desk, rose, and hugged Emma McChesney thoroughly and satisfactorily, then held her off a moment and demanded to know where she had bought her hat. "Got it ten minutes ago, in the millinery department downstairs. Had to.
Glover touched the call-button and to the uniformed colored man who answered he gave his card asking for Miss Brock. An instant during which he had once waited for a dynamite blast when unable to get safely away, came back to him. Standing on the handsome platform he remembered wondering at that time whether he should land in one place or in several places.
A trace of anger shone in the woman's eyes. "You're right," she said shortly; "I dare say Sidonie isn't asleep yet. I'll get her to telephone while I keep an eye on you." Bending over the desk, without removing her gaze from the adventurer, his captor groped for, found, and pressed a call-button. From some remote quarter of the house sounded the grumble of an electric bell.
"I'm sure I don't know," replied little Mary Louise. "Perhaps there's something on the track." By this time all the passengers were thrusting their heads out through the curtains of their berths. "Porter, Porter!" called the Penguin, who had been vainly pressing the electric call-button. But as usual, when a porter was wanted he is nowhere to be found. Then the Baby Seal began to cry.
I reached over and touched a call-button and our head nurse entered from a rear room. "Are there any operations going on now?" I asked. She looked mechanically at her watch. "Yes, there are two cases, now, I think," she answered. "Would you like to follow our technique, Doctor?" I asked, turning to Dr. Reinstorm. "I should be delighted," he acquiesced.
He pressed the call-button, and, when his room-steward answered, turned Michael over to him to be taken down below and tied up in the crowded cubby-hole. During the several days and nights on the Umatilla, Michael learned much of what manner of man Harry Del Mar was. Almost, might it be said, he learned Del Mar's pedigree without knowing anything of his history.
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