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There were but few guests stirring at that hour, and Blount had the writing-room to himself when he bought a copy of The Plainsman and turned anxiously to the editorial page. After the first thrilling of relief born of the newsboy's cry, an unnerving fear had crept in to whisper that possibly the facts might not bear out the thankful assumption.
But there's sure to be a lot of nasty talk in the papers; and you're bound to lose in the end." Ralph thanked him and left. He sped northward to the Malibran, where he learned that Mr. and Mrs. Spragg were at dinner. He sent his name down to the subterranean restaurant, and Mr. Spragg presently appeared between the limp portieres of the "Adam" writing-room.
She was a lady through and through. If she had meditated death if the breach suggested by the one letter I have mentioned, should have so preyed upon her spirits as to lead her to break her old father's heart and outrage the feelings of all who knew her, she could not, being the woman she was, choose a public place for such an act an hotel writing-room in face of a lobby full of hurrying men.
This seems to argue the popularity of the contractor's cigars rather than that of the chair, but, nevertheless, I submit that on a campaign the article second in importance for rest, comfort, and content is a chair. The best I know is one invented by Major Elliott of the British army. I have an Elliott chair that I have used four years, not only when camping out, but in my writing-room at home.
"Nor that either," answered Percival, laughing, as he lighted the chamber candlestick, and, followed by Beck, ascended the grand staircase to a small room which, as it adjoined his sleeping apartment, he had habitually used as his morning writing-room and study. Percival had, indeed, received that day a letter which had occasioned him much surprise; it was from John Ardworth, and ran thus:
Nobody expected serious-minded things of Polly, though here and there someone was willing to admit that she was "clever enough in her way." Finding the writing-room empty, Polly sat down to write a letter. Several times in her career she had decided upon courses of procedure which had seemed to her eminently practical, only to be talked out of them by her family.
Passing in through a broad entrance, he turned aside to a writing-room, where, without removing his soft hat, he sat down at a desk.
Gabinius followed him into his writing-room, and there said with fulsome smoothness: "Ah, great Caesar, thus do the gods punish with a heavy hand the crimes of the guilty."
Afterward he remembered a bare, brilliantly lit hall hung with photographs of the Acropolis, and a stout, capable woman in a cap, who looked him over and said: "You will find Mrs. Stedman in the writing-room." And he remembered entering a room filled with Mission furniture and reading-lamps under green shades.
He stood for an instant in thought tapping his foot on the marble floor of the deserted hall dimly lit by a single electric bulb burning over the hall porter's box. Then he went back to the writing-room and returned with a yellow telegram form. "Send a boy down to Charing Cross with that at once, please," he said to the night porter. Fate which had brought Bruce Wright face to face with Mr.
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