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What am I boss for, if I don't own a little man like the Recorder of Deeds?" "What is it?" gasped the wretched Carlis, in a fearful whisper, when the voice had ceased. "What is that infernal thing?" "A detectaphone," returned Blaine laconically. "You've heard of them, haven't you, Carlis?
He was one grand little promoter, Rockamore was; pity he got cold feet, and promoted himself into another sphere!" "All things considered, it may not be such a pity, after all!" Blaine rose suddenly, whirling his chair about until it stood before him, and he faced his amazed visitor from across it. "Now, Carlis, suppose you promote yourself from my office!" "Wh-what!"
Carlis called me up shortly afterward, and wanted to know if I would be able to receive him this afternoon, on a matter connected with my finances, but I told him I had retained you to search for Ramon, and was expecting you at any moment. He seemed greatly astonished, and warned me of the he called it 'useless' expense.
She is a spineless sort of creature, you know, without much self-assurance, or initiative, and I believe she had quite a scene with Mr. Carlis before she left. She was on the switchboard, if you remember, and as well as I was able to understand from her, he caught her listening in on his private connection.
Excuse me, Miss Lawton, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but he's trying, the old gentleman is! I think he got suspicious of me when Margaret Hefferman made such a botch of her job with Mr. Rockamore, and yesterday afternoon when Mr. Carlis caught Agnes Olson listening in oh, I know all about that, too! he got desperate.
The girls were unknown, whereas his operatives would assuredly have been recognized, sooner or later, especially in the offices of Carlis and Rockamore. Moreover, the ruse adopted to obtain positions for Miss Lawton's protégées had appeared on the surface to be a flawlessly legitimate one.
Moore remembered the incident of the loan, and his private accounts showed that it had been made on the sixteenth of August two years previously. "Mr. Mallowe arranged the matter with you for Mr. Lawton, did he not?" Ramon asked. "Yes, it was a purely confidential affair. Mr. Carlis came with him to interview me. They did not at first tell me that Mr.
They must have staged the whole thing pretty well Carlis and Paddington and their crew for when I stepped out of the express elevator, there was no one in sight that I remember but the boy who was with me. I pressed the button of the local, which was just beside the express there was a buzz and whirring hum as if the elevator had ascended, and the door opened.
Blaine took the documents and list of names, scanning them quickly and sharply with a practised eye. The names were those of the biggest men in the city bankers, brokers, financiers and promoters. Among them, that of President Mallowe and Timothy Carlis appeared frequently. At only one did Henry Blaine pause at that of Mark Paddington.
Mallowe showed me a letter which he had recently received from Pennington Lawton corroborating his statement. But in the matter of the amount desired we could not definitely distinguish the figures. Mr. Mallowe was sure that it was three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Carlis was equally certain that it was three hundred and eighty-five thousand.
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