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"Hello, Paret," he said "how is that telephone business getting along?" "Is Dickinson in?" I asked. Tallant nodded. We went through the cool bank, with its shining brass and red mahogany, its tiled floor, its busy tellers attending to files of clients, to the president's sanctum in the rear.
Here is a delightful occupation for those of the leisured class who have the gift, and a much more effective way of reading aloud. Lady Gregory, in talking to the workhouse folk in Ireland, was moved by the strange contrast between the poverty of the tellers and the splendors of the tale.
Matt. 6:33. What God adds is just perfect even though at the time we might not understand it. The next sin is witchcraft. Today many people are turning to magical powers and are having communion with evil spirits and the devil. This is what witchcraft is. Fortune tellers, spiritualist readers etc. are all of the devil and should never be considered nor tampered with.
Captain Bailey stopped short and sprang from his chair. "There's my train comin'," he shouted. "Good-by, Sol! So long, Barzilla! Keep away from fortune tellers and pretty servant girls or YOU'LL be gettin' married pretty soon. Good-by." He darted out of the waiting room and his companions followed. Mr.
If the story- tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd ha' troubled to invent parables?" Saying this the tranter arose to fetch a new stock of cider, ale, mead, and home-made wines. Mrs. Nobody do know the trouble I have to keep that man barely respectable. And did you ever hear too just now at supper-time talking about 'taties' with Michael in such a work-folk way.
Check-Raising Always a Danger A Scheme Almost Impossible to Prevent The American Bankers' Association the Greatest Foe to Forgers It Follows Them Relentlessly and Successfully Chemically Prepared Paper and Watermarks Not Always a Safeguard Perforating Machines and Check Raisers How Check Perforations Are Overcome How an Ordinary Check Is Raised How an Expert Alters Checks How Perforations Are Filled Hasty Examination by Paying Tellers Encourages Forgers The Way Bogus Checks Creep Through a Bank Unnoticed A Celebrated Forgery Case Forgers Successful for a Time Always Caught Where Forgers Usually Go That Have Made a Big Haul A Professional Crook Is a Person of Large Acquaintance.
I have little more to say, but that, having been lately in a versifying mood, I have set to rhyme your story of the cook and the lottery ticket; and herein I have avoided that malicious propensity of our numerous tellers of stories, whose only pleasure, as it appears to me, lies in the plunging the heroes and heroines of their tales into inextricable troubles and difficulties, and in continuing them in a state of perplexity beyond the power of human sufferance; and who slur over their unexpected, and generally ill-contrived escape, as a matter of small importance; and with an envy of human happiness, like the fiend who sat scowling on the bliss of Eden, either leave them with sinister intentions, or absolutely drive them out of the Paradise which they have so lately prepared for them.
A porter admitted the lad, and he made his way to the private offices, where he knew his father and Mr. Damon would be. In the corridors he could hear the murmur of the throng and the chink of money, as the tellers paid it out. "Well, Tom, this is bad business," remarked Mr. Swift, as he saw his son. The lad noticed that Mr. Damon was in the telephone booth. "Yes, Dad," admitted Tom.
When Dick arrived at the bank on the following morning at his usual hour he found that a sense of gloom had descended upon the inmates of the institution. Every one seemed to be depressed. In answer to his pleasant greeting the tellers and bookkeeper nodded and went on with the work that held their attention, as though endeavoring to catch up with a press of business.
There were also present two paying tellers, which was not usual. Besides these two bank clerks was observed Major Andrews, the well-known chief of the Bow Street detective service, and by his side sat two of his assistants. As yet, there were only five persons present who knew the cause of this meeting the president, cashier, and the chief and his assistants. No time was permitted to waste.
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