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It purported to be the sunny tale of an office boy who, quite by accident, hummed a wonderful melody into the dictaphone. The cylinder was discovered by the boss's brother, a well-known producer of musical comedy and then immediately lost. He had gathered that this was what the magazines wanted.
That's what beats me!" he ended up. Tommy shook his head, and said dully: "It accounts for the stitches being new. We might have guessed...." "Never mind the darned stitches. How did he get ahead of us? We hustled all we knew. It's downright impossible for anyone to get here quicker than we did. And, anyway, how did he know? Do you reckon there was a dictaphone in Jane's room?
At five-thirty he had already let himself into Room 420 and was preparing to make himself comfortable. He picked up the dictaphone every few minutes, but for a long time heard nothing. Things seemed quiet and he began to wonder where Strong and Walker were, what was delaying them. His heart was going at a great rate because of the forced quiet and the excited state of his mind.
Parrish always liked to have open in the warm weather, sir, ... the one opposite the desk. The other window was never opened, sir, because of the dictaphone as stands in front of it. The damp affects the mechanism ..." "Thank you, Bude," said the young man. With his accustomed majesty the butler wheeled to go.
The school at Berkeley has included business methods in its course of study, and this is an excellent thing, because the day is not far distant when the ability of the blind to fill positions as typewriters, stenographers, telephone and dictaphone operators, and salesmen, will be recognized.
The great leather armchairs were designed on modern lines for comfort rather than for appearance. There were no pictures; but vases of chrysanthemums stood here and there about the room. A dictaphone in a case was in a corner, but beside it was a little table on which were set out some rare bits of old Chelsea.
Things would depend on him if the two men did not come. Would he be able to carry out the plans? "I can only do my best," the boy said to himself. And there was a strong determination to make that best count. It was now half past seven. He lifted the dictaphone oftener. Very soon he heard voices, very indistinct, but as he listened they became clearer and clearer.
He was about to take the receiver from his ear, however, when another voice caught his attention He held up a hand, which told Chester that something of importance was going on. "All right, general," said a voice in the German trenches, which was carried plainly to Hal's ear by the Dictaphone. "Stay!" came another voice.
"Oh, stay a little longer a few days," urged Tom. "I'm sure that something is going to happen soon. Anyhow my photo telephone is about perfected. But I've just thought of another improvement." "What is it?" "I'm going to arrange a sort of dictaphone, or phonograph, so I can get a permanent record of what a person says over the wire, as well as get a picture of him saying it.
Walker now very quickly, yet very clearly explained the workings and the manipulations of the dictaphone. Ted listened carefully as he was told how the wires should be laid and connected. "You see, Ted," Walker continued, "the whole thing is already prepared. We knew how little time we would have when the time did come, so we did everything we could beforehand.
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