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We've got to carry this thing through at first on our face, and they'd be more apt to entrust the matter to you personally." "All right," agreed Orde. "I'll start in on Daly." He did so the following morning. Daly swung his bulk around in his revolving office-chair and listened attentively. "Well, Jack," said he, "I think you're a good riverman, and I believe you can do it.
A. S.... I am to come at once?... I know where yes I ... you will meet me there?... Good! I shall be with you in half an hour.... Good-by!" Distinctly I heard the creak of the revolving office-chair as Slattin rose; then Smith had me by the arm, and we were flying swiftly away from the door to take up our former post around the angle of the building.
You don't know enough for the Majestic, Miss Malpas. Or perhaps you know too much. I'm sorry. I had thought you would suit us. Keep straight, that's all I have to say to you. Go back to Doncaster, or wherever it is you came from. Leave before five o'clock. That will do. With a godlike air, Mr. Reuben swung round his office-chair and faced his desk.
At the moment of her entry he had been lying back in an office-chair, so that only a merely nominal section of his upper structure was visible. Now he reared his impressive length until his head came within measurable distance of the ceiling.
"By the vay," the little German beamed up at him, swinging his fat legs as the office-chair tipped back on its springs, "if it is to be a stock company, you vill be selling some of the stock to raise money, is it not so?" "Yes," agreed Orde, "I expect so." "How much vill you capitalise for?" "We expect a hundred thousand ought to do the trick," replied Orde.
Distinctly I heard the creak of the revolving office-chair as Slattin rose; then Smith had me by the arm, and we were flying swiftly away from the door to take up our former post around the angle of the building. This gained "He's going to his death!" rapped Smith beside me; "but Carter has a cab from the Yard waiting in the nearest rank.
I was not speaking the strictest truth, but I saw no reason to pour out Madame Maür's revelations just then upon Stires's heated soul. Nor would I pursue the subject of Follet. Stires sank down on something that had once been an office-chair. Thence he glowered at me. I had no mind to endure his misdirected anger, and I turned to go.
Come pretty nigh missin' her" and the Captain opened his big storm-coat, hooked his cloth cap with its ear-tabs on one prong of the back of one office-chair, stretched his length in another, and, bending forward, reached out his long, brawny arm for the cigar I was extending toward him.
But it was the unexpected that happened, for, as the door closed behind me, I found myself in a plain sort of workshop, such as an ordinary man would have in his own house, at one end of which stood a rolling-top desk, and, instead of the dazzling throne I had expected to see, there stood in front of it an ordinary office-chair that twirled on a pivot.
The master was well and sound last evenin', and this mornin' he was found dead in his own office-chair." "You mean a private office in his home?" "Yes, sir. Mr. Crawford went to his office in New York 'most every day, but days when he didn't go, and evenin's and Sundays, he was much in his office at home, sir." "Who discovered the tragedy?"
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