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Updated: May 3, 2025
"I want to know how much you'll take to clean up right where you are and make my boy's word good to the people of this State." Mr. McVickar turned to his table-desk and took up a sheaf of telegrams. "I'm a pretty busy man this evening, David; and if you haven't anything better than that to offer "
He paid a dollar each on account to the four tradesmen, and in his kitchen fried steak and onions, made coffee, and stewed a large pot of prunes. And having dined, he sat down at his table-desk and completed before midnight an essay which he entitled "The Dignity of Usury."
Crawford's office, as was shown by the immense table-desk of dark mahogany, and all the other paraphernalia of a banker's work-room, from ticker to typewriter. But the decorations of walls and ceilings, the stained glass of the windows, the pictures, rugs, and vases, all betokened luxurious tastes that are rarely indulged in office furnishings. The room was flooded with sunlight.
McVickar walked around the other end of the table-desk and sat down heavily. "You've spoken twice of a 'last chance' David," he said grittingly. "What is it?" "It's the chance I gave you in the beginning. First, let me tell you what I reckon you're already admitting.
In the second that elapsed between the opening and the closing of the door Jock's glance swept the three men Bartholomew Berg, quiet, inscrutable, seated at his great table-desk; Griebler, lost in the depths of a great leather chair, smoking fussily and twitching with a hundred little restless, irritating gestures; Sam Hupp, standing at the opposite side of the room, hands in pockets, attitude argumentative.
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