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All I know is hearsay! I'll advise 'em and you threaten 'em. Come along, Blanchard! We'll make a good team!" While Commander Lanigan talked with the mayor from a telephone-booth in a drugstore under Central Labor Union hall, Post-Adjutant Demeter stood with his nose pressed against the glass door, waiting anxiously.
But there was the same restraint in his look that had been shown in the afternoon. "Good night," he murmured, slowly. Eva quite understood, and there was a smile of encouragement on her face as she turned away and flitted down the hall to her room. Outside, Zita had hurried from the house to the nearest public telephone-booth and was frantically calling Balcom at his apartment. "Mr.
I'm sick of this telephone-booth, anyhow; we'll present it to some nice newsboy and rent an apartment with a closet. This one's so small I don't dare to let my trousers bag. Besides, we've been under cover long enough, and I want you to meet the people I know. We can afford the expense now that I'm making thirteen hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents a day."
It was that expansive and expensive hour of the afternoon when business worries are dropped and before social cares are shouldered. It was cocktail-time along the Avenue, the hour when sprees are born and engagements broken, and as it lengthened Wharton celebrated it as in days gone by. His last regret had vanished, he was having a splendid time, when a page called him to a telephone-booth.
As it was after ten o'clock and the rain had begun again, I told her "No," and added that I'd come to see her in the morning. When I left the telephone-booth the drug clerk stared at me inquisitively. "You look all fagged out," he said frankly. "I'm not feeling very well," I replied, struggling into my rain-coat. "Better let me give you somethin' to fix you up," he suggested.
David Cairns had stepped into a telephone-booth in the main-hall of the Smilax Club the following afternoon, to announce his presence in the building to Vina Nettleton. Waiting for the exchange-operator to connect, he heard two pages talking about Bedient and Mrs. Wordling.
"I don't know that I should care to go myself," said Percival, "but I'll send my man." Judson having been despatched, Percival with difficulty refrained from following him. Mrs. Weston's solicitude as she hovered between the telephone-booth and the desk was infectious, and he found himself pacing from entrance to entrance, imagining the most calamitous causes for the delay.
There was some more she missed, but that was quite enough for Zita. She got out of the chair quickly and left the room without being observed, and a few moments later she had left the house. In a telephone-booth, not far from the cove fishing-village, Locke by this time had his chief of the Department of Justice on the wire.
"Serves you right," I said to myself, "for hobnobbing with a tramp. His impudence!" But, as I walked, his words seemed to repeat themselves over and over again in my brain. I think I even grew angry at the man. "I'll show him!" I finally said, aloud. "I'll show him that I can fight Reddy Burns, too even knowing who he is." I hurried to a telephone-booth and rang up the Telfair residence.
Caught like a rat in a trap; done for; at the end of his rope. Why hadn't he taken to his heels when he had had the chance? Gone at once to New York and sent for his belongings? . . . Sugar, coffee and spices. . . . The pen slipped from his fingers, and he laid his head on his arms. Monumental ass! Up suddenly, alert eyed. There was a telephone-booth in the hall. This he sought noiselessly.
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