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Updated: May 29, 2025
The room was small, finished with yellow matchboarded walls and ceiling, and containing a closed roll-top desk, a table littered with papers, a vertical file, two cupboards, a telephone, and other simple office requisites. Two doors led out of it one to the manager's bedroom, the other to the shed. Thinking that those could wait, Willis settled down to make an examination of the office.
Across his roll-top desk the inspector, speaking as follows, according to the mode of the fellowcraft, gave them their instructions: "You'll likely be findin' this here party at the Stuffed Owl. That's his regular hang-out. My information is that he's usually there regular this time of the day. I've just had word that he went in there fifteen minutes ago; it's likely he'll be stayin' a while.
A tall Man with tan Whiskers arose from behind the roll-top Desk and greeted him. "How are you feeling this Morning?" asked the Stranger. "Swell and Sassy," was the Reply. "And yet, to-morrow you may join the Appendicitis Colony and day after to-morrow you may lie in the darkened Front Room with Floral Offerings on all sides," said the Stranger.
Seeing a large wooden box some distance away, they made tracks to commandeer it On the way back an officer met them and queried: "Here, lads, where are you going with that?" "This old egg-box, sir we're taking it along to our dug-out, sir," one of them explained. "Egg-box be hanged!" retorted the officer. "Why, that's the general's roll-top desk!" A charming, auburn-haired nurse tells the story.
Bobby was glad he did not have to fill that wood-box at a cent a time. Against the walls at either end of the room and next the windows were two roll-top desks at which sat Mr. Orde and his partner. Two or three pivoted chairs completed the furnishings. "Hullo, Bobby," called Mr. Orde, who was talking earnestly to a man; "I'll be ready in a few minutes."
It's the only solution I can see." He meant to the problem of his respectability. Rowcliffe said yes, perhaps it would be better. He was thinking that it would solve his problem too. For he knew that there would be a problem if Gwenda came back to her father. The Vicar rose heavily and went to his roll-top desk. He opened it and began fumbling about in it, looking for things.
The offices of the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor adjoined. Each had its ante-room, in which a private secretary wrote eternally at a roll-top desk, an excessively plain-featured stenographer rattled the keys of his typewriter, and a smug-faced page yawned over a newspaper, or scanned the cards of visitors with the air of an official censor.
For a long time after the door had jarred to its shutting behind Hallock, Lidgerwood sat at his desk, idle and abstractedly thoughtful. Twice within the interval he pulled out a small drawer under the roll-top and made as if he would take up the weapon it contained, and each time he closed the drawer to break with the temptation to put the pistol into his pocket.
"You're right, Mawruss," he said at length; "I'll go and see Henry D. Feldman the first thing to-morrow morning." The next morning Leon Sammet sat at his roll-top desk in his private office, while Barney went over the morning mail. "Hallo," Barney cried, "here's a check from Horowitz & Finkelbein for the full amount of their bill, Leon.
"I know that he has a small iron strong-box screwed into the inside of his roll-top desk, and of course there is a safe in the outer office; but I don't see how we're going to find out whether the paper we want is there." "The girl seemed a fool," Higgins remarked. "Can't she be got at?" "I have done my best," Weiss answered.
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