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Wilkins that she was going to leave, he used another set of phrases which all side-street office potentates know they must learn these clichés out of a little red-leather manual.... He tightened his lips and tapped on his desk-pad with a blue pencil; he looked grieved and said, touchingly: "I think you're making a mistake.
A look of distress and annoyance crossed Laura's face. It was hard to hear this from a menial. "I'm sorry," she said; "I'll try again to-day." Rising from the trunk, she crossed the room, and, taking a desk-pad from the mantel-piece, returned and took a seat at the table. "Ain't yo' got any job at all?" demanded Annie, who was watching her as closely as she dared. "No."
Elbow on the table and chin in the palm of her hand, she tapped the desk-pad with her pen and made small dots in the large circles she had drawn on the paper, and slowly she wrote a name upon it. What could Stephen Van Landing be doing in this part of the town? He was one of the city's successful men, but he did not know his city.
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