First I thought maybe I'd kind of not tell Mr. Ellsworth all about that phone call and say I couldn't hear very plain, and all like that.

Mr. Harrison there?Ask him to come to the 'phone, please.Harrison?

Suppose, now, we dropped down on the commons, and get Bloomsbury on the long distance phone; perhaps they might have some news they could give us," and as Andy at once agreed to the proposal, for he was thirsty anyhow, and wanted a drink of soda water the worst kind, Frank began to descend gracefully.

He was pleased to find that they had a regular booth in the store; for he knew of numerous cases where the phone simply stood on a little stand, and everybody could hear what the subject of the talk might be, especially one side of it.

Is dimly seen taking up a phone.

(he brings a thermometer to the stairway for light, looks sharply, then returns to the phone)

Now, what do you mean, Anthony, by not answering the phone when I buzz for you? ANTHONY:

(he punches the buzzer, takes up the phone) Miss Claire?

TOM looks around to see if anyone is coming to answer it, then goes to the phone)

Claire's daughter has arrived, (looking in the inner roomreturns to phone)

TOM: (at the phone)

ANTHONY has a gentle smile for the gentle tappingnods approval as, TOM returns to the phone)

" She hung up the phone with a dazed face.

If the noise was heard, it evidently passed for something dropped by a servant, for Colonel Fiske, who was telling a humorous story, went on, his recital punctuated by bass and treble anticipatory laughter from his auditors: "and when he called her upon the 'phone the next day to ask her about it, she said she didn't know he'd been there at all!"

Perkins, you 'phone Tim O'Keefe to bring my car here at once.

" "Thank you," he said and put the phone down first.

"No one attends to our telephone calls and, when they do, they keep transferring our calls from one person to another and they finally disconnect the phone," was another general complaint.

I have since handled thousands of reports either sent to me through post, fax, emails or even dictated over the phone.

I had a correspondent who happened to fly to Bombay in the morning, but that didn't stop him from sending me a news item over the phone.

Such was the extent of influence asserted by the organisers of this rave party that the police just turned a deaf ear to phone calls made by Choppy and me just to check how much the police is interested in enforcing the law.

We do not know whether money had changed hands but when we did not get any response to the repeated phone calls we made to the nearest police station we personally went to speak to the police officer on duty but to our horror found the police station was closed, lock stock and barrel, as deserted as a place hit by a typhoon.

Those were pre-mobile phone days, so there was no way of contacting FIFA for their take on the rule.

CHAPTER X THE AMERICAN BAR "You're wanted at the 'phone, Mr. Britt," said Miss Pelham.

But, say, shall I call him up on the 'phone and head off the strike?" "Anything, Mr. Britt, to get back our servants," said Lady Deppingham, who had come up with Mrs. Browne.

" "I wonder if help could reach him quickly in the event of an attack?" "It could, if he'd have the kindness to notify us by 'phone," said Browne.