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Updated: June 11, 2025
Something might be said in extenuation of the station agent's and the Double R manager's sins of omission, but without doubt the country was what she had termed it an unfeatured wilderness. Her first sensation upon getting a view of the country had been one of deep disappointment.
"That you, Mr. Winton? Want to send something?" he asked. "No, go to sleep. I'll write a wire and leave it for you to send in the morning." He sat down at the packing-case instrument table and wrote out a brief report of the day's progress in track-laying for the general manager's record.
"What's going to happen to-morrow?" he could not help saying, when Cleo had at length finished telling him her estimate of the stage manager's character. "When mid-day comes, the salaries shall be paid without fail," replied Cleo unhesitatingly. "You just don't trouble your mind," she added. "Leave me to arrange everything." He pressed her for details.
After this fashion did the youth attached to the service of the manager's office announce La Cibot, whom the portress below had particularly recommended to his care. Gaudissart had just come in for a rehearsal. Chance so ordered it that no one wished to speak with him; actors and authors were alike late.
He had never been inside a bank before, and he looked around him curiously. On the left was an opaque glass door, with "Manager's Room" painted on it; on the right was an elevated desk, from which every part of the apartment could be commanded; the clerk who sat there looked down at him for an instant as he entered, but at once resumed his occupation.
You know me well enough, sir; I'm the mother of little Giry, little Meg, what!" This was said in so rough and solemn a tone that, for a moment, M. Richard was impressed. He looked at Mme. Giry, in her faded shawl, her worn shoes, her old taffeta dress and dingy bonnet. It was quite evident from the manager's attitude, that he either did not know or could not remember having met Mme.
In the beginning of her career the new recruit usually gets fines charged against her faster than her credits mount up on the manager's book. But there are other rules, one of the chief of which is to make the men who come into the dance-hall buy as many drinks as possible, and if a man comes in who has money, to see that he spends it all before he departs.
Wharton might be awaiting his report, he reluctantly closed the door again, turned the key in it, and hurried back to the manager's office. "Well," inquired the elder man, spinning around in his desk chair as the boy entered and noting the glow in the youthful face, "how did you find things at the shack? Any hope in the place?" "Hope!" repeated Ted. "Why, sir, the house is corking!
Again the appetizing aroma from the kitchen turned the current of his reflections into its original channel, for he concluded with: "An excellent dinner is in progress, if my diagnosis of these penetrating fragrances be correct." And it was soon demonstrated that the manager's discernment was not in error.
'He said she died of failure of the heart, from shock. Those were his words. Why do you ask? 'Mere curiosity. I helped to carry her that is, I carried her myself to the manager's room, and she begged me to call you, so I came to your door. 'It was kind of you. Perhaps it made a difference to her, poor girl. Good-night. 'Good-night. When do you sail? 'On Saturday.
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