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I stopped outside the office door to see if my sheets were paged rightly, smoothed them carefully out, put them back in my pocket, and knocked. My heart beat audibly as I entered. "Scissors" is there as usual. I inquire timorously for the editor. No answer. The man sits and probes for minor items of news amongst the provincial papers. I repeat my question, and advance a little farther.
What would Rockefeller have done? He would, John felt certain, have gone to the ball-game. He imitated the great financier. It was while he was smoking a cigar after dinner that night, musing on the fortunes of the day's game and, in particular, on the almost criminal imbecility of the umpire, that he was dreamily aware that he was being "paged."
It was a smile of accepting the inevitable. He went with her to the forward deck where her staterooms were situated, and left her there in silence. Von Ritz, standing apart near the threshold of the smokeroom, heard his name paged almost before the speaker had entered the door, and turned to take from the hand of the bearer a Marconigram just relayed from shore.
I was sitting with my 400 paged guide-book before me, and looking down upon the moving mass, when my attention was called to a small group of gentlemen standing near the statue of Shakspere, one of whom wore a white coat and hat, and had flaxen hair, and trousers rather short in the legs.
Vernon shifted his feet uneasily. 'Well, I shouldn't like to take a lickin' from Pot, he said. 'Wouldn't you? Winton asked, as he paged the sheets of lines with hands that shook. 'No, I shouldn't, said Vernon, his freckles growing more distinct on the bridge of his white nose. 'Well, I'm going to take it' Winton moved clear of the desk as he spoke.
That's one nice thing about New York; you keep meeting people from out your way that are lonesome, too. Lon's friend and Jeff's sheep man had had to leave, being encumbered by watchful-waiting wives that were having 'em paged every three minutes and wouldn't believe the boy when he said they was out. But Ben's friend, Jake Berger, was still at the table.
I'm sure we can work out the answer." He paused and then added pointedly, "Without bothering Governor Hardy." "Yes yes of course," said Sykes, accepting the proffered cup. Within a half-hour, Vidac had Sykes laughing at his jokes and stories, and when they parted, the professor's temper had abated. When the scientist finally left, Vidac turned to the ship's intercom and paged the cadets.
Lanyard, connected with the Knickerbocker promptly, with the customary expenditure of patience laboriously spelled out the name B-r-double-o-k-e, and was told to hold the wire. Several minutes later he began to agitate the receiver hook and was eventually rewarded with the advice that the Knickerbocker operator, being informed his party was in the rest'runt, was having her paged.
Ross diverted himself by making appointments, postponing them, forgetting them, telephoning, telegraphing, sending special-delivery letters, being paged at hotels, and doing all the useless melodramatic things he could think of, except using an aeroplane or a submarine, he decided to make her his secretary at twenty dollars a week.
Bloeckman Mr. Black," he said. "He's up-stairs have him paged." The boy shook his head. "'Sagainsa rules to have him paged. You know what table he's at?" "No. But I've got see him." "Wait an' I'll getcha waiter." After a short interval a head waiter appeared, bearing a card on which were charted the table reservations. He darted a cynical look at Anthony which, however, failed of its target.
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