He knew it; it was that infernal opal of Kitty's getting in its deadly work.

And what would Kitty say?
What would she do?
He stood up and pulled down the roller-top violently.

The crash of it sent every clerk, bookkeeper and stenographer huddling over his or her work.

Two bangs all in one morning?
What had happened to the coffee market?
As a matter of fact, coffee fell off a quarter point between then and closing; which goes to prove that the stock-market depends upon its business less in the matter of supply and demand than in "signs." On board the yacht Killigrew laid the affair before Crawford.
"What do you believe ?" "I've reached the point," said Crawford, "where I believe in nothing except this young lady," and he laid his hand over his wife's.

"For ten years I had a valet named Mason.