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He fumed. As he fumed, he swore. He did not like mysteries. But there was no mystery about his dislike for Big Jake Connors. He turned aside from the direct route to Headquarters to indulge it. He drove to a hospital where four out-of-town hoods had been carried two days before. He marched inside and up to a second-floor corridor door with a uniformed policeman seated outside it. "Hm-m-m.
She had a very successful although somewhat confused day. She was asked this and that and led hither and yon, and so surrounded by strange faces and sights that she felt fairly dizzy. There was a restaurant attached to the academy, for the benefit of the out-of-town pupils. There was a long time to wait.
On the country circulation, for handling all out-of-town subscriptions and orders of wholesale news agents, 30 persons. On mailing and delivery, for sending out by mail and express of the outside circulation, and for distribution to city agents and newsboys, 31 persons. In the New York office, caring for the paper's business throughout the East, the Canadas, Great Britain and Europe, two persons.
He was not a provincial who imagined that it was the smart thing to attend this dull orgy and struggle on a polished floor packed as in a sardine tin. Years ago he had outgrown cabaret mania and recovered from the fascination of syncopation. And yet here he was, once more, against all his fastidiousness, playing the out-of-town lad to a girl who took everything and gave nothing in return.
Practically all our out-of-town customers wrote us, and to their kindly expressions of regret for our disaster was added the hope that we would continue in business, and promises of hearty support in the matter of sending us their orders. With our competitors it was different. One or two called on us and were sincere in their regret.
It sounds like an Indian war drum. It thrills me." Sometimes Maxine showed signs of melting. But she always congealed again under the influence of her resolve. One evening an out-of-town diner, on hearing her name, said, "Pardee! Hm. Probably a corruption of Pardieu. A French name originally, I suppose." After that there was no approaching her for a week. Maxine Pardieu. Pardieu.
Much of the business done by the firm consisted in the execution of orders for out-of-town dealers and consumers, but by far the greater volume comprised the negotiations carried on between the different importers and dealers of New York. The entire business of the United States, in their line of trade, was practically controlled by these importers and dealers.
"No?" Morris vouchsafed. "So these here out-of-town customers comes up to see Rifkin. They gets in the elevator and they says 'Sixth, see? And the elevator man thinks they says 'Fifth, and he lets 'em off at our floor because there ain't nobody on the sixth floor.
The lights glow in both exchanges, notifying the operators when the conversation is begun and ended, and the operator of Eighteenth Street "central" makes the record in the same way as she does when both numbers are in her own district. Besides the calls for numbers within the cities there are the out-of-town calls.
Its membership was cosmopolitan; men of every walk in life passed in and out of its doors, professional men and business men, physicians, artists, merchants, authors, engineers, each stamped with the "hall mark" of the St. James, an innate gentleman. To receive a two weeks' out-of-town visitor's card to the St. James was something to speak about, and men from Chicago, St.
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