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He knew, too, that an office boy often whiles away the monotonous hours by piecing together the president's secrets from the scraps in his waste-basket.
He knew his words were false and cruel. He knew that Michael would not hesitate a second to give his life. But the man could not bear to be withstood. "If you feel that way I cannot take this!" Michael sadly, proudly held out the check. "As you please!" said Endicott curtly. "There's the waste-basket. Put it in if you like. It isn't mine any longer. You may spend it as you please.
Harriet Reed heard her and she was so mad she ripped up the pincushion she had just sewed and the sewing teacher found it in the waste-basket and she says Harriet has to buy material to replace the stuff she tore and she can't go home after school to-morrow until she has made another pincushion." "Well, I don't think Harriet helped her cause much," said the doctor pacifically.
"Or has some one been rifling his waste-basket?" "That would mean an accomplice in the house, which would be dangerous. I think it was done at longer range. As for the question of our friend's faking in his claim of complete ignorance of all this, I propose to find that out right now." Drawing the telephone to him, he called the Caronia apartments. Thus it was that Mr.
Every detail of traditional ceremony was observed even to the mound of presents marked with each name piled on the same spot on the couch, to be opened with the serving of the coffee. "I got something for Eleanor," Jimmie remarked shamefacedly as he added his contributions to the collection. "Thought we could keep it for her, or throw it into the waste-basket or something. Anyhow I had to get it."
Her hand unobtrusively stole to her heliotrope, which fell, a moment later, a crushed little fragrant lump, into her waste-basket. Presently she went into the coat closet. "Remind me to take these to the French Laundry at noon," said Susan, pausing before Thorny's desk, on her way back to her own, with a tight roll of linen in her hand. "I left 'em on my coat from yesterday. They're filthy."
This he carefully placed in a large-sized military letter envelope, moistened and pressed tight the gummed flap, stowed it in the inner pocket of the overcoat that hung at the rear tent pole, reduced the wrapper and its superscription to minute fragments, and dropped them into the waste-basket, all as carefully and methodically as though life knew neither hurry nor worry; then bowed his lined face in both hands a moment in utter silence and in unmistakable sadness.
She did not look at me, or thank heaven! behind me, but fixed her injured gaze upon the waste-basket, as if to wrest dark secrets from it. "I have come to tell you that I am leaving," she staccatoed. "Oh, yes, yes!" I agreed, flapping my arms about to attract attention from the corner. "That's fine great!" "So you want me to go, do you?" she demanded. "Sure, yes right away!
I know the rule about conditions and the play as well as you do, but being without either a condition or a part, I can't see that it concerns me particularly. "Yours most gratefully, "JEAN REAVES EASTMAN." Betty read this note through twice and consigned it, torn into very small pieces, to her waste-basket.
"The Daily Mail, sir," said the constable. "The issues of July twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth." Bray took the papers in his hand, glanced at them and tossed them contemptuously into a waste-basket. He turned to Walters. "Sorry, sir," said Walters; "but I was so taken aback! Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I'll go at once " "No," replied Bray sharply.
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