Then the erstwhile bookkeeper ransacked the bunkhouse for arms and ammunition.
Grayson wanted a bookkeeper worse than he could ever recall having wanted anything before in all his life.
She had often sought the veranda of the little office and lured the new bookkeeper from his work, and on several occasions had had him at the ranchhouse.
His rather stern face clouded as he saw the girl and the new bookkeeper laughing there together.
I jest cain't figger it out no ways how thet there tenderfoot bookkeeper lost him.
It beats all, Grayson," he said presently; "but I am sure that I have known this new bookkeeper of yours before.
By the time Grayson and the Mexicans had wormed their way through one of the small windows of the office the new bookkeeper was beyond sight and earshot.
They were Tony, Benito, and the new bookkeeper of El Orobo Rancho.
If he ain't dead or stolen he'd a-ben back afore the bookkeeper was.
Then the colonel asked Mr. Nazro, who had been the firm's bookkeeper for many years, to try to find something for me to do.
The bookkeeper smoked a corn-cob pipe, and he stopped to refill and light it before he opened on me.
I was offered the job of bookkeeper and paymaster, combined, on the new work, with a substantial raise in salary, and the temptation to accept was very strong.
If I should be lucky enough to find a train ready to leave, I might yet hope to escape whatever trap it might be that the bookkeeper and his official accomplice were going to set for me.
Oh, I am all right, Mr. Munger," thebookkeeper hastened to say.
The young bookkeeper had turned very pale and was eying them with a startled face.
This sorting must be carefully done," explained the bookkeeperwho was showing them about, "or the wool will not take the dye well.
As soon as it was certain that the bookkeeper had really ceased to breathe, Captain Cortland had the hospital steward summon men, who carried the remains away.
He had often played at concerts in the towns and villages about, and when there were visitors at the palace this fine, slim son of the bookkeeper was sent for to entertain them.
The entire household effects being sold, the bookkeeper found he had nearly six hundred francs--one hundred fifty dollars.
The bookkeepershrugged his big shoulders and laughed.
The bookkeeperwas perched upon a high stool before an equally elevated desk burdened with the mill owner's ledgers.
The bookkeeper appeared, his hat on the back of his head and struggling into his coat.
But," announced the bookkeeper with great confidence, "I am old Doctor Fix'em.
You are kicking it all over the place," the bookkeeper responded.
The bookkeeper disregarded the presence of the private secretary as if he were deaf.
The bookkeeper who had charge of the accounts in her department, a man named Douglas, is missing.
I think you can get them to come, inasmuch as they know the bookkeeperis safe and that dead women tell no tales.
The real point is to find this missing bookkeeper at any cost.
At the proper time we shall produce the bookkeeper Douglas and prove it.
His anger which had found vent upon his old bookkeeper he knew was due another man, a man with whom at any cost he could never allow himself to be angry.
The old bookkeeper hastened to give him almost tearful assurance of his desire to assist to the utmost of his power.
Wickes, when the old bookkeepercame announcing such a deputation.
Phil had decided it was best to say nothing of his previous evening's experiences, but he had asked where young Jimmy Stiles was working now and learned that the bookkeeper was with the Alderson Construction Company.
He suggested that Alderson dismiss them for the afternoon, and began at once to question the bookkeeper and the detective who had followed him.
Either the bookkeeper could not or would not tell him and Phil had been in too great a hurry to get into action to waste time in futile talk.
When the bookkeeper went into the Jessup Grill Clayton had the duplicate satchel which contained the worthless brown wrapping paper--had it hidden under his raincoat.
The young man who responded was James Stiles, bookkeeper and general office clerk.
The outburst was so spontaneous and unaccountable that the bookkeeper stared at him.
The young bookkeeper picked up the satchel, nodding respectfully to the President of the Interprovincial Loan & Savings Company as he quietly closed the door behind him.
He walked into the Brokers' Bank Building just as the bookkeeper pushed the elevator bell.
He continued to follow the bookkeeper at a convenient distance.
Her husband had been cashier and bookkeeper at one of the favorite variety theatres in Berlin, and twenty years before had departed this world, leaving her without home or protection.
The inspector and the bookkeeper were walking up and down near the lodge smoking their Sunday afternoon cigarettes.
The credit man, you know, usually grows up from office boy to cashier, and from cashier to bookkeeper, from bookkeeper to assistant credit man and then to credit man himself.
One has moved up from slave-bookkeeper to credit-man slave and partner.
Why is a shelf-lister any more of a missionary than a bookkeeper in John Wanamaker's store?
Many machines of different sorts have greatly changed bookkeeping methods, making the bookkeeper an initiative force in administration of business houses, and certainly similar economy systems will be developed for the cataloger.
Before Floppingham assumed charge, nobody around the office even knew how many steps a thirstybookkeeper had to take to make the water-tank at the opposite side of the room and get back to the revolving perch.
A thousand functions: tailoress, milliner, mender of clothes, bookkeeper also for M.
The reliable bookkeeper has reduced to habit the combining of all the ordinary sums of the ledger.
A young man who is an indolent bookkeeper may prove to be an indefatigable salesman.
Never mind their titles; we may forget them, with the name of the bookkeeper who presently embezzled thirty thousand dollars of the firm's money and returned but a trifling sum.
Four or five months ago I bought into the Express (I have ordered it sent to you as long as you live, and if the bookkeeper sends you any bills you let me hear of it).
It was a fairly safe presumption then that Bookkeeper Bob had not returned yet, or one of the detectives at least would have been shadowing the house.
Had Bookkeeper Bob returned to his flat in Harlem with the detectives at his heels--or were Burton and Lannigan still trailing the man downtown somewhere around the cafe's?
The banker had long appreciated Pascal's work, accepted his proposition, and the bookkeeper left the little town, to the great regret of his former master, who tried too late to retain him in his own interests.
Ruble, secretary and bookkeeper respectively of the Commercial Club and also deputies, A.
Clay had been made bookkeeper of the Weyerhouser Mill about a year and a half before this, and had been given a membership in the Commercial Club at the time.
At the store of this manufacturer, the bookkeeper told me that, if a person has a tooth extracted, the phosphorus will be absorbed by the jaw bone and cause it to decay, if the individual works in the factory before the gum is entirely well.
Where a gentleman bookkeeperreceives $15, a lady usually receives but $8.
Papers found on him showed that he was a bookkeeper for Messieurs Labuze and Company and that his name was Leras.
As he approached the immense monument, the old bookkeeper noticed that he was hungry, and he went into a wine dealer's for dinner.
The bookkeeper who would rise above mediocrity requires something besides the ability to record business transactions in the proper columns of books prepared for him.
By constant handling and entering, the bookkeeper becomes very familiar with the numbers and it is but little trouble for him to locate an account.
The designing of pay-roll records to meet the special conditions in the great variety of manufacturing industries, offers a wide field for the ingenuity of the bookkeeperor accountant.
The bookkeeper can, if desired, have a duplicate set of the short sheets, shown in Fig.
A bookkeeper was engaged to keep the books by the double entry system.
The ability to properly classify the accounts that make up trading and profit and loss statements, and balance sheets is a valuable asset to the bookkeeper who aims to advance to the highest position.
These suggestions may be of assistance to the bookkeeper who is called upon to use a card ledger.
The above plan enables the bookkeeper to add separately the totals which are posted to the respective ledgers.
The bookkeeper who is called upon to fill a position where this method is used must know how to keep books by single entry, that he may more clearly demonstrate the advantages of the double entry method.
It is the work of the bookkeeper to record these facts—to write the history of the business in language that will be understood by anyone who may read it.
The red-haired bookkeeper did not take the trouble to look up to see who had entered the office.
