A well-littered desk, two 'phones, code-book, directory, typewriter, file-books, a busy bookkeeper, a fair stenographerno detail was omitted.

"I do not believe you will be surprised that I have been content to remain deputy bookkeeper.

There is no heart in the rubber trust; merely a business office that employs very efficient bookkeepers, who are paid to see that others pay.

" Ten minutes after they left the industrious bookkeeper returned with navvies and draymen, and removed the office furniture to parts unknown.

The inexperienced bookkeeper was eliminated and all supervision headed up in the new manager.

Mitchell had long adored the blonde manicurist, but once the same roof sheltered her and the magnificent head bookkeeper, he saw his dream of love and two furnished rooms with kitchenette go glimmering.

SHARP, ABRAHAM, a schoolmaster of Liverpool, and subsequent bookkeeper in London, whose wide knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, &c., attracted FLAMSTEED (q. v.), by whom he was invited in 1688 to enter the Greenwich Royal Observatory, where he did notable work, improving instruments, and showing great skill as a calculator; published "Geometry Improved," logarithmic tables, &c. (1651-1742).

" "Slate," cried Joe, slapping the tragic bookkeeper a whack, "you're inspiring!"