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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Pays his bill in American money, I suppose?" the diner asked. "I'll ascertain for you, Mr. Dane," Charles replied. "I believe he is an Englishman." "Name of Merton Ware," the inspector agreed, nodding, "just arrived from Jamaica. Writes some sort of stuff which the girl with him typewrites. That's his story. He's probably as harmless as a baby." Charles bowed and moved away.
I'm not a pauper in the true sense of the word; I am merely trained down to the proper financial weight for a man of my age and experience to carry, and I can now enter the ring with good chances. The other way was as absurd as the four-year-old prodigy who typewrites and is rather fond of Greek. But I loved your daughter and I thought it quite the right thing to do.
"Well no I hardly think you see he typewrites his letters, and although I know his writing very well I can't at the moment put my hand on any figures of his." "Never mind it's mere matter of curiosity; the police will ask him questions in the morning. What I believe has happened is this.
Heels didn't like to be told of it, he snaps his heels together, starts his arm as if to salute, but stops in time, says, 'Yes, sir, goes off to his little desk, and typewrites Endorsement No. 1 to the back of the captain of the Savannah's letter, gets the commandant's signature, and sends the messenger with it to the captain of the yard. "And right here was when it really got under way.
Morton's subsequent life has proved that he had certain expensive, not altogether avowable, tastes. One day he discovers the old love letters of the 'Comte Armand de la Tremouille. "Then he lays his plans. He typewrites a letter, forges the signature of the erstwhile Count, and awaits events. The fish does rise to the bait. He gets sundry bits of money, and his success makes him daring.
"'What you two pirates need, says the admiral's yeoman, 'is to learn a little respect for the shore-going departments where your orders are made out, and goes back to his office and takes that hose-pipe communication and reads through the sixty-seven endorsements again, and then he carefully typewrites on a new leaf: "'Endorsement No. 68 U.S.S. Texarkhoma, Hong-kong, China, Date So and so.
"You have someone to help you, Miss Smythe told us yesterday," she said. "Someone who typewrites your letters." "Oh, Miss Sampson? Yes, she is an energetic little thing. But she has vexed me to-day. I particularly wanted her this afternoon, and she has asked for a holiday. Her little cousin is ill, and she wants to take him into the country somewhere. She has just gone.
Merton, you'll want a typewriter for your business correspondence, and Miss Blossom typewrites: it is her profession. 'Well, said Merton, 'I am not afraid. I do not care too much for "that garden in her face," for your cherry-ripe sort of young person. If a typewriter is necessary I can bear with her as well as another.
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