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But instead of that he climbed the stairs, rather heavily, and passed on down the hall to the little room he calls his study, his sanctum-sanctorum where he keeps his desk and papers and books and the duck-guns, so that Dinkie can't get at them. I could hear him open the desk-top and sit down in the squeaky Bank of England chair.
The ante-chamber leading to the Generalissimo's "sanctum-sanctorum" was crowded with brilliantly-uniformed officers of our State Artillery, and it was only by dint of using my elbows very vigorously that I gained admission to my chief-in-command. The old General seemed to feel keenly the gravity of the situation.
"'Pale youth, quoth I, 'I pray thee the way to the sanctum-sanctorum, to the Most High Cock-a-lorum. "He deigned to look at me, scornfully, with infinite weariness. "'G'wan an' see the janitor. I don't know nothin' about the gas. "'Nay, my lily-white, the editor. "'Wich editor? he snapped like a young bullterrier. 'Dramatic? Sportin'? Society? Sunday? Weekly? Daily? Telegraph? Local? News?
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