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Whenever you want to pay a bill here all you have to do is to press the cash button on the teleseme over there, and they'll send the money up from the office." "But how shall I ever repay the office?" I cried. "Press the button to the left of it, and they'll send you up a receipt in full," he replied. "You mean to say that this hotel is run " I began.
You will find a huge "teleseme" or indicator in your bedroom, on the rim of which are inscribed about one hundred different objects that a traveller may conceivably be supposed to want; but you may set the pointer in vain for your modest lemonade or wait half an hour before the waiter answers his complicated electric call.
Drupe's wild face was suddenly thrust forth upon her. "Won't you call a boy somebody? My husband is dying," were the words that greeted Miss Wakefield at the moment of the apparition of the despairing face. Miss Wakefield rushed past Mrs. Drupe into the apartment, and turned the teleseme to the word "manager," and then pressed the button three times in quick succession.
She took hold of the needle of the teleseme, but the words on the dial were confused; she quickly moved the needle round over the whole twenty-four points, but none of them suited the case.
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