"You need a new stenographer," he declared.

As he sat at his shiny oaken desk and pressed the button that summoned the stenographer it seemed to him the simplest thing in the world to satisfy any jury of what had taken place and the summit of impudent audacity on the part of Mr. Tutt to have suggested that Hassoun should be dealt with otherwise than a first-degree murderer.

And the menace grew and mounted, and not a hand was stretched to help her.... Hardly a half-hour earlier Moffatt, with whom she had been visiting a "private view," had sent her home in his motor with the excuse that he must hurry back to the Nouveau Luxe to meet his stenographer and sign a batch of letters for the New York mail.

It was a misfortunate meeting for Delany, for Asche nailed him upon the spot and made him repeat to Caput Magnus the story of how he had seen Tony throw the brick and then, for some fool reason, not being satisfied to let it go at that, he insisted on calling in a stenographer and having Delany swear to the yarn in affidavit form!

" One of those bright, enveloping smiles swept over his facethe smile that always carried the little stenographer away with it.

The judge consulted his stenographer.

The manager dismissed the stenographer, took up Jarvis's card, looked at it, and then at his victim.

If you found yourself confidential stenographer to the biggest lawyer in town, he'd know you, all rightby your loud dressing.

"They've got eight right in New York," interjected the stenographer.

" "I can't help it if he loves the only stenographer on the island," said Chase easily.

I could not overhear their conversation, but long afterward, when I mentioned our old stenographer, Bessie Brown, to Bob, he told me of the incident at the Battery.

The Pennsylvanian drew Stevens into committee room 6 and, ordering the stenographer to leave, drew up chairs where both could sit, facing the door.

It took nearly ten minutes to pacify the ruffled stenographer.

"And here's one from Paris, France," added the stenographer.

" "They say it was the Brewster boys," ventured the stenographer.

" He divided a nod between the two men, and passed into the outer office, where they heard him addressing the stenographer in a strain of exaggerated gallantry.

Only one Filipino has passed the stenographer examination in English since the organization of the government, and it is necessary each year to bring many American stenographers from the United States.