New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-15

d-t4eE whether SIZE costs Us tndr
through intention or ignorance Its not infor1ra-
ton OF our occasional ers in the market getting o,,r
II advance that worries me There are plenty Of
WAYS Of handling them without Miss Marshall know
ing anything about them. but all The corresronderce
In reference 10 our larger operations al our plans
and arrangements involving The heavy interests in
which cooperating with others pass through
her hands We must have some one IN that room
who Is secret proof.
Sure thing. assented the --rior PARTNER Il
have four more DAYS I'm going TO ask YOU 70 let me
dictate the letters TO-DAY chief or rather 1er me
dictate some letters while YOU give me those that
are really 10 90 / can still remember enough of nv
stenograPhy 70 make some sort Of stab at the work
and can do them later n the day IN my office III
have a machine sent in / have plan
All right. John. But / II write out nv Own let
tiers in longhand; there are very few, responded
LOring This week Is yours Better have Miss
Marshall take Your mail here / II 90 out and YOU
can tell her I've been called away. I'm afraid YOUR
sympathy has got the better Of Your judgment
In the senior partner Ornce Carleton dictated
several letters You can leave the door open. he
said as he dismissed the girl The day Is sitting.
and vel both get more air" Then he seated him
self the big desk where he could watch the girl
nimble fingers playing over The keys. and smoked
innumerabe cigarettes lulled into hall doze by the
staccato click OF the typewriter n the little office
SUDDENLY he sat up. listening intently. Could
~ he be mistaken No. there was the sound OF a-.-
other typewriter somewhere Il not IN the outer
office. II Miss Marshall would stop for a moment
She had stopped; but the other machine had stopped
also. An echo probably. he reflected No She had
started again. and so had the other typewriter IL
was typewriter, and no echo. This happened sew
eral times
He took handful Of envelops from the desk and
crossed the room. dropping them by accident.
near the door OF Miss NarShalls room. rs he
stopped 70 pick them up he glanced up the window
OF the room above his own Yes. II as he had
thought. there was some one there q man. seated
AZ a typewriter He picked The erveoFs Up one r
one IN order % prolons his Investigation He -o-
tcei that when Miss Marshall stopped writing the
man across the shaft stopped TOO and that The instant
she began again did her mysterious echo. He could
not see the man face. which was hidden by the
lower sash of The haf-Open window az which he SAT-.
Carleton stood up and remained moment N
thought The telephone LOrIngs desk Fang
sharply He spilled his handful OF envelops on the
floor again and dropped 20 his knees
Oh Miss Marshall. he said. as he began Cd
gather UP the scattered ietsa- will YOU please Az
SNer the phone, I'm busy" The girl met his glance
OF humorous annoyance with an amused smile she
hurried past HIM her way 20 take the call Carrie
ton continued 20 look up. feeling for the enveoIs
with his fingers his ewes fastened the window or
posIte and above The man had ceased 20 write
His machine silent. Then Carleton caught q
glimpse OF a pale. Ratchet shaped taCc looking out
from beneath the sash and with difficulty repressed
a startled exclamation The face disappeared as Mss
Marshall returned 20 her room. Carleton had Just
picked Up the last euVel0p
IL was Mr. shelton asking for an appoincrrerc
with Nr LOrlug tomorrow she explained Is she
resumed her seat az the typewriter 81 made q
memorandum OF H. and sand that Mr.. Loring would
telephone HIM IN the morning
I'm. his Is getting interesting" Carleton NUT
tered 20 himself as he threw the rumpled enveiors
into the waste paper basket and lighted another
cigarette He SAT- on the senior partner desk swing
ing his legs, smoking and thinking while he waited
for Miss Marshall 70 finish her work His Thoughts
were more of his hrst in criminal inye>,i-
CATION when he was junior IN college than OF his
present problem
You can so home now and call 1t a DAYS work
he SAID aughingly, jumping down from his perch as
The stenographer entered with the letters NJ