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Can't the people at the exchange overhear everything if they want to?"

"Yes; I'd forgotten that. I know⁠—the speaking-tube in the steward's office! I can get the steward to let me have the use of the room for ten minutes in the slack time to-morrow morning. Then I'll call up to Marryatt and tell him all I want to."

"The trouble about that speaking tube is, it isn't really made for dialogue. I mean, you have to speak and listen alternately through the same tube."

"All the better. I don't want any interruptions from him. Now, a game of bezique for Heaven's sake: my nerves are all anyhow."

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