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Updated: May 8, 2025
"I shall do it, Callisto," said the keeper, as he started to move away. "Meanwhile, here's a stick of chewing-gum for you."
There was nothing in the pockets of the overcoat, but inside the hat he found pasted the initials L. P. He rolled chewing-gum, stared reflectively at the little window immediately above the table, through which a glimpse might be obtained of the ebony chair, and went out again. "Nothing," reported Coombes. "What do you mean nothing?" "His pockets are empty!" "All of them?" "Every one."
There were magnificent works of an art on the grand scale of a people's gallery; one structure promulgated the glories of a notorious chewing-gum. There was a gorgeous proclamation of a fashionable glove with a picture of an extremely swell slim lady all dressed up or rather all dressed down for the opera.
"I guess I won't go with you to see Poppa," she said, stopping at the top of the last flight. "Poppa's kind of a rough talker sometimes." Sheila looked rather alarmed. "You mean you think he he will bawl me out?" "I wouldn't wonder." Babe smiled, showing a lump of putty-colored chewing-gum between her flashing teeth. Sheila stood halfway down the stairs.
The difficulties of the situation were beginning to come home to him. 'Maybe if I went and saw him he suggested at last. 'You could, said Katie doubtfully. Ted tightened his belt with an air of determination, and bit resolutely on the chewing-gum which was his inseparable companion. 'I will, he said. 'You'll be nice to him, Ted? He nodded. He was the man of action, not words.
Over the pictures of our people, pinned to the sand-bag walls, we placed sprigs of a small-leaf holly that grew on the Peninsula. We planted the little fir in a disused petrol-tin, and, after a visit to the canteen, decorated it with boxes of Turkish delight, sticks of chocolate, packets of chewing-gum, oranges, lemons, soap, and bits of Government candles.
There I had glimpses of men and girls at long crowded tables making coats, pants, vests, paper flowers, chewing-gum, five-cent cigars. I saw countless tenement kitchens, dirty cooking, unmade beds. These glimpses followed one on the other in such a dizzying torrent they merged into one moving picture for me. And that picture was of crowds, crowds, crowds of people living frowzily.
I did not buy any stocks, but I made myself agreeable to the group about the ticker and formed the acquaintance of an elderly German, who was in the chewing-gum business and who amused himself playing the market. It was not long before he invited me to lunch with him and I took every opportunity to impress him with my legal acumen.
Despite the bewildered air and wandering manner, he knew this big, tired-looking soldier for an administrator of infinite capacity and inexhaustive energy. Proceeding to a room further along the corridor, Chief Inspector Kerry opened the door and looked in. "Detective-Sergeant Coombes." he snapped, and rolled chewing-gum from side to side of his mouth.
With exclamations of "Well, by golly!" and "You got to go some to beat this dump!" Babbitt admired the Chateau. As he stared across the thousands of heads, a gray plain in the dimness, as he smelled good clothes and mild perfume and chewing-gum, he felt as when he had first seen a mountain and realized how very, very much earth and rock there was in it.
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