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He turned and stared at Martin, and Martin, staring back, noted the puffed and discolored face, handsome and weak, and knew that he had been making a night of it. "Lookin' for a job?" the other queried. "What can you do?" "Hard labor, sailorizing, run a type-writer, no shorthand, can sit on a horse, willing to do anything and tackle anything," was the answer. The other nodded. "Sounds good to me.
After breakfast he put the type-writer in its case and carried it down into Oakland. "I owe a month on it," he told the clerk in the store. "But you tell the manager I'm going to work and that I'll be in in a month or so and straighten up." He crossed on the ferry to San Francisco and made his way to an employment office.
His bicycle and black suit were again in pawn, and the type-writer people were once more worrying about the rent. But such things no longer bothered him. He was seeking a new orientation, and until that was found his life must stand still. After several weeks, what he had been waiting for happened. He met Ruth on the street.
"Jim," said I to Boswell one morning as the type-writer began to work, "perhaps you can enlighten me on a point concerning which a great many people have questioned me recently. Has golf taken hold of Hades yet? You referred to it some time ago, and I've been wondering ever since if it had become a fad with you." "Has it?" laughed my visitor; "well, I should rather say it had.
With a gesture toward the type-writer, he asked me if I was accustomed to its use; and when I acknowledged some sort of acquaintance with it, he drew an unanswered letter from a pile on the table and requested me to copy it as a sample. I immediately sat down before the type-writer. I was in something of a maze, but felt that I must follow his lead.
We are going to have the time of our lives with that motor-boat." The door shook with Phil's disapproval. "You do talk like an American," she flung at me through the panel. "That's good. I'm glad adoption hasn't ruined me," I retorted. "But could you just because you're English contentedly give up our beautiful plans, and settle down as if nothing had happened with your type-writer?"
One day she found in the waste-paper basket which she searched carefully after every mail-delivery, an advertisement which commended to the buying public a new make of type-writer. "Many public institutions," thus the advertisement ran, "use our well tried machines in their offices, because these machines will bear the most rigid examination. Their reputation has crossed the ocean.
"I don't wish to offend you," I said, "but I rather like to keep the two separate. Aren't you man enough yet to see the value of variety?" But there was no answer. The lady had gone. It was evident that she considered me unworthy of further attention. After my interview with Xanthippe, I hesitated to approach the type-writer for a week or two.
He viewed the Casco in a manner then quite new to us, examining her lines and the running of the gear; to a piece of knitting on which one of the party was engaged, he must have devoted ten minutes' patient study; nor did he desist before he had divined the principles; and he was interested even to excitement by a type-writer, which he learned to work.
I'll show 'em a trick or two." The detective cooled off by the time they reached Brett's flat. On the dining-room tables they found two telegrams and a Remington type-writer. The messages were from Holden, Naples. The first: "Johnson arrived here this morning." The second: "Johnson's proceedings refer to poorhouse and church registers." "Johnson is Capella," explained Winter.
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