desk-electric

Updated: May 21, 2025

Hallock dragged the one vacant chair into the circle illuminated by the shaded desk-electric, and sat on the edge of it, with his hands on his knees. "Well?" he said, in the grating voice that was so curiously like the master-mechanic's. "We can cut out the details," this from the man who, under other conditions, would have gone diplomatically into the smallest details.

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