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"It's a good business, Roger," protested Tibbetts mildly. "There's nothing wrong with it. We've been running only two years. Look what we've done. Look at our prospects. We're pretty well off already. We'll be rich pretty soon. Why? Because Roger Payne comes pretty near being a genius with machinery and Jim Tibbetts can beat most fellows selling. It's too good to spoil, Roger."
Roger Payne had come to a decision. He waited until the office door had closed behind the departing stenographer, then swung his long legs recklessly upon his flat-top desk and shouted across the room at his partner: "Jim Tibbetts!" Tibbetts frowned. He was footing a column of cost figures and the blast from his young partner nearly made him lose count. Payne grinned. He liked his partner.
As a matter of fact the code has now been changed, Lieutenant Tibbetts being mainly responsible for the alteration. Hamilton, in his severest mood, wrote a letter to Bones, and it is worth reproducing. That Bones was living a dozen yards from Captain Hamilton, and that they shared a common mess-table, adds rather than distracts from the seriousness of the correspondence.
Hamilton had a sister who wrote wittily and charmingly every week, and there was another girl ... Still, two letters and a bright pink paper or two made a modest postbag by the side of Lieutenant Tibbetts' mail.
"I did," and Tibbetts came into the room and stood facing us. "Tell your story," said Stone, abruptly, as he looked at the white-faced woman. "Here it is," and Tibbetts looked fondly at Ruth as the latter's piteous glance met hers. "I've loved and watched over Mrs. Schuyler all her life. I've protected her from her husband's brutality and helped her to bear his cruelty and unkindness.
Each gave a straightforward and satisfactory account, and I realized that Stone was only getting a sense of the household atmosphere, and its relations to Mr. Schuyler himself. Tibbetts, the middle-aged maid of Ruth Schuyler, told of the shock to her mistress when the news was brought. "Mrs. Schuyler had retired," said Tibbetts, "at about ten o'clock, Mr.
"You're a jolly old commissioner, sir," he mimicked, "and for two pins I'd mention you in dispatches." Bones examined the piping of his khaki jacket and extracted the pins. No doubt whatever but that Lieutenant Tibbetts of the Houssas had a pretty taste for romance.
He waited, but Hamilton had his mouth full of tongue sandwich. "If you mention me in dispatches," Bones went on suggestively. "Don't worry I shan't," said Hamilton. "But if you did," persisted Lieutenant Tibbetts, poising his sticky biscuit, "I can only say " "The marmalade is running down your sleeve," said Hamilton; "shut up, Bones, like a good chap." Bones sighed.
It would appear that Hamilton's sister had been on a visit was in fact on the visit when she wrote one letter which so opened Hamilton's eyes and mentioned that she was staying with some great friends of Bones'. She did not, of course, call him "Bones," but "Mr. Tibbetts." "I should awfully like to meet him," she wrote, "he must be a very interesting man.
Tibbetts gave him a Desk at the Office and called him Assistant Something. If he had been set out on the Pavement and told to Root for himself, it would have broken him of the habit of Eating. Link was whatever they called a Lobster in 1880. Mr. Tibbetts realized that City Life had an enervating Effect on Boys and made them Superficial and Wise in their own Conceit.
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