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The pall of silence lasted no longer than it has here taken to describe how it fell and enveloped them. Mr. Geltfin broke the silence without lifting the prevalent gloom. Indeed his words but depressingly served to darken it to a very hue of midnight. "Besides," he added, "there is anyhow another reason. We know what a nice clean girl she was in private life.

And the profits from that last picture should ought to be something positively enormous stupendous sensational. Listen! I bet you that from the hour we release " "You ain't going to release!" broke in Geltfin, his wizen features sharpening into a peaky mask of grief. "Don't talk foolishness!" snapped Mr. Lobel. "For why shouldn't we be going to release?" "That's it why?" Mr.

By reason of his valvular resources Mr. Quinlan might shout louder than Geltfin. But he could not shout louder than Mr. Lobel. Nobody in that section of Southern California could. Mr. Lobel outblared him: "How should you be knowing? You come now and ask me that when all along it was you that had the swell idee to stick him into the laboratory all by himself where he could play some funny business?

Lobel in his private office was telling it to Vice President Quinlan and Secretary-Treasurer Geltfin, the only two among his associates that his messenger had been able to find about the executive department at the moment. He continued: "Coming like a complete shock, you could 'a' knocked me down with a feather, I assure you. For a minute I couldn't believe it.

Still choking, still bellowing, he scrambled to his feet, an ungainly embodiment of mortal agitation, and ran for the door. But Mr. Geltfin beat him to it and through it, Quinlan and Appel following in the order named. Outside their chief fell up against a wall, panting and wheezing for breath, his face swollen and all congested with purple spots.

You know how easy it is to slip over a double exposure. But it was only the sample print that was doctored. The negative was all right, but you wouldn't listen." "That's right too, Lobel!" shrilled Geltfin. "I heard him when he yelled out to you that you should wait!" Quinlan amplified the indictment. "Sure he heard me and so did you!