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This man so the legend runs is on the lookout for unusual personalities. The first hint of a new one puts him on the trail, and he sends out a detective to gather facts, all of which are card-indexed under the personality's name. Then, if the report is attractive, this man goes out himself and meets the oddity face to face.
They card-indexed you, and then you were investigated by the secret service and if you were all right, well, that was all. "Mercy! It's enough," said Audrey, impatiently. "Do you mean to say they'll come here?"
"But the night before we sailed," said her stepfather, drawing from his neatly card-indexed memory, "it was with me that you held a little last session." "Yes, but on my way upstairs. The lift had stopped, you know.
It did not take me long to reach the end of my imagination and give up the case, but Kennedy continued to revolve the matter in his mind, looking at it from every angle and calling upon all the vast store of information that he had treasured up in that marvellous brain of his, ready to be called on almost as if his mind were card-indexed.
Once in Germany, this information was carefully card-indexed for the use of the manufacturers. Bulletins of commercial information were also prepared and placed at their disposal. In Germany, the collection of all commercial information is under a bureau which is controlled and financed by the great German banks, such as the Dresdner, Disconto, and Reichs Bank."
Candace had the kind of a mind that kept people and events card-indexed even to the minutest detail, and it didn't take many seconds for her to place Warren Reyburn back in the church at the wedding, standing against the wall with his arms folded. She had noticed him particularly because he was so courteous to a little old lady who came in too late to get a seat.
The Yankees are a methodical lot of old maids. I find they had been made agents of a lot of the big fellows insurance people, packing-houses, and transcontinental railroads two of my lines were paying them, though I'd forgotten about it until I looked it up and the good old sewing society had card-indexed the politics of the United States the whole blessed country, by state and congressional districts.
It did not take me long to reach the end of my imagination and give up the case, but Kennedy continued to revolve the matter in his mind, looking at it from every angle and calling upon all the vast store of information that he had treasured up in that marvellous brain of his, ready to be called on almost as if his mind were card-indexed.
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