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Updated: May 24, 2025
And all that slide-rule and comptometer business.... But Jeff four thousand dollars?" she queried. "You only got five from me, and you can't run a detective agency on old pistols." Rand grinned as he set down his empty glass. Gladys refilled it from the shaker. "My dear lady, that five thousand I unblushingly accepted from you was only part of it," he confessed.
It was soon apparent that he considered Nickleby an impostor whose motives were not to be computed by a self-respecting comptometer. "Nickleby is a scamp and I might even qualify the statement, sir, by addition of the word, 'damnable. There you have my opinion, sum total, and one of these new adding machines cannot give it to you more quickly or accurately."
"Young lady, where's your comptometer?" he demanded, after he had made a quick survey of the office. "We have never used one, sir." "One is indispensable these days in a bank especially when a bookkeeper can't add a column of figures correctly by the old method." She flushed and her lips quivered. "I'm sure I do add correctly, sir. My books always balance." "Add that column, young lady!"
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