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Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ted to catchthe fresh harbor breeze that wafted gently up thestreet. As you reached the top of the stairs, two doors,one straight ahead, the other to your right, con-fronted you. The first was the general entrance;it gave into the busy outer offices, the switch- 1921) PHANTOM GOLD 873 board and wire rooms, the files. The other, thatdoor on your right, opened directly into a largeboard-room, a conference room; and this roomconnected at its farther end with the managersprivate office. That right-hand door was markedPrivate. No gilt lettering proclaimed the location ofthese business quarters. But on every window, on them hung colored engravings of steamships—always sailing perfectly calm reaches of brightblue sea, always flying rainbows of variegatedbunting. The floor was thickly carpeted in stripsof a brilliant green, whose nap felt like velvetunderfoot and hushed the stormiest tread. In itsvery center stood the desk, a massive piece ofmahogany, on whose plate-glass top rested a tele-
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AS THE MAN BROKE INTO SWIFT ANGER, MR. BOLLES RAISED A THIN BROWN HAND (SEE NEXT PAGE) from the switchboard to the local managers room,house-flags and line-titles in gay blue, green,snowy white, and golden yellow, announced theallied and associated companies which the Dalesystem controlled or operated. These emblemswere painted skilfully on the plate-glass; they lentan air of festivity, of gala decoration, to a placewhose general atmosphere was exactly the op-posite. There were thirty-two windows, andeach bore a different design. Mr. Bolles con-sidered this display the best, indeed the onlypermissible, form of advertising. However thatmay be, it is true that Dales needed no other. The local manager, this Bolles, sat at his deskin the inner corner room. The office was largeand airy, but it held the companionable intimacyof a ships cabin. The walls were tinted gray, and phone, an inkstand, and a letter-basket. Butunderneath this glass a Mercator chart showedred-lined pilot-routes on all

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