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Updated: May 4, 2025
He had gone to bed when the typing was done, and had dreamed scene after scene vividly while he slept. Still glowing with the pride of creation, he had read the script while his breakfast coffee had cooled, and he had been the first man in the office, so eager was he to share his secret and see Martinson's eyes gleam with impatience to have the story filmed.
"Now, Mary Byrd," the Sparrow would chirp truculently, "you 'tend to your business, and let me 'tend to mine. Anybody would think that we were all to save ourselves in this house but you. As for my typing, it's funny if I can't save you something on those miserable stenographers' bills."
With a gesture that seemed to refer one to her card, she had explained that after typing all week in a stuffy office she always tried to have a Sunday out of doors to get her mind off her work. It was arranged that they should go somewhere together, leaving their destination to be decided when they met. They were to meet in front of the National Gallery at a quarter before ten.
"I feel you have a hundred thousand interesting things to say if you would only talk!" I blurted out at last. "I am not here to talk, Sir Nicholas I am here to do your typing." "Does that make a complete barrier? Won't you be friends with me?" Burton came into the room at that moment and while he was there she slipped off to her typing without answering me.
Louis, was pleasantly agitated at the prospect of a dance in the old court saloon, which was assembly-room and everything else for the little place. The thirteen holy fires were alight a large one, to represent Christ; a lesser one, to be trampled out by the crowd, typing Judas. The twelfth cake, one slice with the ring in it, was cut, and there were drink and laughter, but, as yet, no music.
"T," which would have been second in popularity, naturally, was seen only a few times in proportion. "Y," also seldom used, appeared very often. The symbol "A" was used with surprising frequency. "Let me see," he mused. "This code is strictly typewritten. It must be arranged on some mechanical twist of the typing method.
Dundee was still seething with futile rage when he climbed the stairs to his apartment. On the floor just inside his living room door he found an envelope unstamped and bearing his name in typing. The note inside, on paper as plain as the envelope, was typed and unsigned.
"I'm going out now, Penny, and I shan't be back today," he told the girl who had returned to her furious typing. "I'll telephone in about an hour to see if anything has come up.... By the way, how do I get to the Dunlap house?" "It's in the Brentwood section. You know that cluster of hills around Mirror Lake. Most of the crowd live out there the Drakes, the Mileses, the Beales, the Marshalls.
And this," he waved the other sheet, "is a piece of photo paper in the center of a panel protected by another sheet of ordinary typing paper coated with that stuff." Peterson looked up at him. "A radiation-proof liquid," he said in awed tones. The other man nodded dumbly. "Eight years of university," the physicist whispered to himself. "Six years in summer schools. Four fellowships.
That is why I'm typing this letter. Please excuse mistakes." There were a good many mistakes but I excused them. "Your copy of the Anti-Tommy-Rot Gazette went to you first thing. Hilda nearly forgot to post it, but didn't quite, which was lucky, for all the rest were seized from us, except nine, which Selby-Harrison gave to a news agent, who sold them but didn't pay us, though he may yet.
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