"Time--King's X--'nuff!" he bellowed, a pervading and infectious smile spreading over his broad, jovial, smooth-shaven face.

"Police! Nine--eleven--twelve hundred, sixty-eight.

I'll pay you a hundred to bind the--No, I'll just pay you now and have done with it.

Don't want the stuff delivered till some time next week, though.

Wife'll run up to-morrow or next day to take her choice of the two houses I've been looking at.