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As he sat in his office on the following Thursday morning, the whistle of the speaking-tube sounded shrilly and interrupted him in the act of composition. He went angrily to the tube.
"What do you want to interrupt me for," he called, "when you know I'm busy? What the devil do you want, anyway?"