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perfectly innocent , lovely old typewriter, that

couldn't say 'Goo' to a boose?"

Bones was pardonably agitated

"Do you mean to tellinto the private lives of virtuous gentlemen and typewriters?

Shame upon you, Hilton!" His voice shook "Give me that report!" He

thrust the report into the fire "Now call up Mr Borker, and tell him

I want to see hi a letter"

He pulled a sheet of paper from his stationery rack and wrote

furiously He hardly stopped to think, he scarcely stopped to spell

His letter was addressed to Mr de Vinne, and when, on the following

day, Mr Borker took over the business of Siker's Agency, that eators had one client the less