Various small claims were filed in the Probate Court and were allowed. "I think," said George to McDowell, "that we'll use Kastner's rent for them. To-day is the third; he has been in, I suppose?"
"He'll have to be punched up," replied McDowell. "It doesn't do to give them any leeway."
"He has always been prompt on the first," said George, somewhat annoyed.
The next morning he entered the paying-teller's pen for a moment, as occasionally happened. His eye chanced to alight on the balance sheet that ran from L to Z.
| McAvoy, Louis M. | 81.98 |
| McCloud, Peters & Co. | 1187.25 |
| McDowell, E. H. | .0 |
"How's this, Jo?" asked Ogden. "What's the matter with McDowell?"
"Pulled out yesterday," responded the payer, briefly.
[IX]
McDowell's defection, from the Underground was presently followed by an addition to its working force. One morning, a month or so later, Ogden, in an interval of leisure, glanced across to the window before which Burton Brainard had railed in his desk, and saw a young woman within the enclosure. She sat there alone, before a desk of the peculiar kind that has been contrived for the typewriter, and her effect at the moment was that of leisure finally and elegantly achieved.