[Spinne-developer] anco-Pe

Sat Aug 29 17:11:12 CEST 2009

Another pleasant morning making good that lapse. It was his habit to
remain late at his office at least three nights a week, for Bones was
absorbed in his new career. "Schemes Ltd." was no meaningless title.
Bones had schemes which embraced every field of industrial,
philanthropic, and social activity. He had schemes for building houses,
and schemes for planting rose trees along all the railway tracks. He had
schemes for building motor-cars, for founding labour colonies, for
harnessing the rise and fall of the tides, he had a scheme for building
a theatre where the audience sat on a huge turn-table, and, at the close
of one act, could be twisted round, with no inconvenience to themselves,
to face a stage which has been set behind them. Piqued by a certain
strike which had caused him a great deal of inconvenience, he was
engaged one night working out a scheme for the provision of municipal
taxicabs, and he was so absorbed in his wholly erroneous calculations
that for some time he did not hear the angry voices raised outside the
door of his private office. Perhaps it was that that portion of his mind
which had been left free to receive impressions was wholly occupied with
a scheme--which appeared in no books or records--for raising the wages
of his new secretary. But presently the noise penetrated even to him,
and he looked up with a touch of annoyance. "At this hour of the night!
.. Goodness gracious ... respectable building!" His disjointed comments
were interrupted by the sound of a scuffle, an oath, a crash against his
door and a groan, and Bones sprang to the door and threw it op
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