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Updated: May 26, 2025
There were fifty minutes to spare, and when he reached his office, and had turned on the desk-light and dropped heavily into his chair, he called up the railroad station to inquire about the train. The Overland was reported ten minutes late. If Gryson should show up in time, this earliest outgoing train must be made to serve as the means for his flight.
Why in Sam Hill don't you take a decent hour at least?" "Only bricklayers can take an hour for lunch," retorted Emma McChesney. "When you get to be a lady captain of finance you can't afford it." She crossed to her desk and placed her fingers on the electric switch. The desk-light cast a warm golden glow on the smart little figure in the trim tailored suit, the pert hat, the shining furs.
We ate hugely, because of the Jolly Nancy making us so hungry. When we'd finished we went into Father's study, where he wasn't, and turned on the desk-light and got at the letter. I read it, while the boys crouched about expectantly.
"No fear!" he laughed. "No" as she offered him the folded paper "keep it and destroy it, once we're out of this. Now those portieres..." Extinguishing the desk-light, he turned attention to the draperies at doors and windows.... Within five minutes, they were once more in the silent streets of Passy.
Mammy Kitty was snoring away like a peaceful watch-dog on her cot in the dressing-room and the whole apartment was dark save for the shaded desk-light. The time and place were fitting and Phoebe was summoning her visions and facing her realities. Down the years came sauntering the nonchalant figure of David Kildare.
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