But of the janitor of the opera, if necessary, sooner than of you.
Their janitor was a former chorus leader; the main floor was rented by an agency exclusively engaged from sun to sun in testing voices.
But instead of leaving it, he put it in his pocket, saying to the watchful janitor that perhaps it would be better to mail it.
He expressed surprise when the janitor informed him of Mr. Loria's absence.
The janitor hesitated, but after a transference of some coin of the realm was effected, he cheerfully unlocked the door and Stone found himself in Loria's apartment.
Then, he stepped into Loria's bedroom, but so quickly did he step out again, that the janitor hadn't time to reprove or forbid him.
The janitor brought it around; he said he found it in the hall.
The janitor had not yet dusted and cleaned these rooms for the week, knowing that the girls were to hold their meeting there.
There was no use in waiting for the janitor to come to put out the flames if they could be quenched immediately.
The janitor tried in vain to anchor his raft, but it still floated downward.
We were told that the janitor had thought it an improvement to have the fire lighted above, in a bend of the river, and float down to the Hall.
It is reported that some of the teachers bribed the janitor to provide for their use the good boards.
Whoever casts his eyes on the platform of the Amphitheater may notice that before every public service, the janitor places just the number of chairs needed, and no more.
On the night when it opened, he was annoyed by a smell of tobacco in the hallways and took the janitor to task for smoking in the building.
For many years Janitorat the Medical Hall of Transylvania University.
Quickly, the boys who were natives of Rivertown set out to guide their new chum to the house where the janitor lived; but when they arrived they were disappointed to know that he had been gone some two hours.
What sticks in my craw is that old Tony Farelli, who was janitor at Rivertown High when most of our fathers and mothers were students, should have laid the trouble to the Pi Etas.
The thought that he could get himself out of a situation which had become decidedly embarrassing, since his schoolmates had discovered him in conference with the janitor and the bully of Rivertown High made Elmer come forward.
Too amazed to speak, the janitor and the boys with whom he had been talking when the others entered the tobacco shop, glanced at one another.
If there really is any crooked work they will be more likely to make the janitor tell about it than we would, I should think, considering the fact that they have been at the school four years.
The trustees held their meeting, at the end of which the janitor appeared with a bundle of blue envelopes, the first of which he offered to the president with the confidential remark, "You're fired!
A new president discovered after a time that the janitor of the college buildings was not disposed to take instructions from him, whereupon he appealed to the board of trustees to put the man definitely under his control.
At exactly half-past eight, the Scotch janitor always took down the big bar which held the double doors in place, and Theodora was invariably the first one in.
If any one ever spoke to him unnecessarily, this janitor fixed a murderous gaze on the offender, as if he would deeply relish killing him, if he weren't too busy mopping or washing blackboards.
And she was the first to burst into the silent building when the Scotch janitor took down the bar, and the first to dash up the creaky wooden stairs.
But the janitor did see him; and so, although Charley is pretty sick, he's going to get better and come back to us again.
If the janitor hadn't happened to see him, there would be no Charley Starr in our class, or in the world to-day.
Anyway, the trees darkened the room all up, so they had the janitor cut down the two trees and they fell down the bank back of the schoolhouse.
Then Fan just moped around the house and cried some, and after a while Herb had to go and teach the eighth grade at school, because Professor Martin broke his leg on the ice the janitor ought to have scraped off the steps but didn't.
So Swatty waited until the janitor had swept all the rooms and started to sweep the walk and he hollered to him.
But the janitor emerged as melancholy and unruffled as ever, only looking at his watch to see if it had been stopped by the concussion.
I told Mr. Wilberforce last night that if he would only get a cheerful janitor I wouldn't mind our having rubber instead of Axminster on the stairs.
The janitor stood in his uniform at the rear, and the lackey in his uniform at the front, to prevent any such intrusion upon the privacy of the aristocratic Santa Marias.
In closing it is only proper to mention that Kara Johnson crocheted a white silk four-in-hand necktie for Carl Carlsen, the janitor--and the janitor smiled!
The man who followed the janitor into the room was neither the one nor the other, but a weazened white-faced Londoner, with a shrewd eye and the false, cringing smile of a small shopkeeper.
The consideration of these factors impelled Merrington to inform the waiting janitor that he would see Mr. Colwyn at once, and even caused him to crease his fat red features into a smile of welcome as he awaited his entrance.
He raised her in his arms for a kiss, and then spoke cordially to the old negro janitor of the Capitol, who was watching him.
He rang at the last of these up-town apartments as it was falling dusk, and it was long before the janitor appeared.
At the first the janitor was respectful and enthusiastic; at the second he had an effect of ironical pessimism.
The janitor met them at the door and examined them.
The next time a colored janitor opens the door to us, I'll tell him the apartment doesn't suit at the threshold.
They never knew whether they had deceived the janitor or not; as they came in a coupe, they hoped they had.
The student and the janitor pay good prices for such things as you.
The janitor only has one, and he lent us that as if he didn't want to.
This letter, which he had selected from the others which the janitor had given him, he had placed in his pocket, and he now essayed to open it.
As he did so, the janitor handed him some letters which had arrived since he had left.
The janitor continued: "'He says that there is a criminal hidden in the house.
One morning thejanitor asked, mysteriously, to speak to me.
And she began to tell me an interminable story of a janitor who had talked scandal about her.
As for Mouton, his back was broken by the fall, The janitor picked up his body.
But the janitor made me very uncomfortable and I left.
My janitor opened the door at once, which was quite unusual for him, and I thought that another lodger had probably just come in.
A small job as janitor of a dance hall helped him for a month.
If the occupants of both flats answered to the whistle of the janitorat the same time, they would stand face to face when they opened the dumb-waiter doors.
But your janitor has engaged me," answered Theodore, quickly.
I get for ye, an' there's the janitorof the Laramie Building on the steps this minute.
The janitor saw that he had been too grasping and hastened to modify his demands lest he lose his commissions altogether.
I believe our janitor usually attends to the signs.
He was just putting a finishing rub on the last one when the janitor discovered what had been going on.
If he secured a promise of the work by the month he made a reduction on his price, and every business man--or janitor who regularly engaged him, was asked to write his own name in the new blank book.
Nothing very serious could happen inside of ten minutes; and the janitor was reliable and not the sort one reads about in the comic weeklies.
The main must be blockaded, so the janitor thrust in the poker and stirred things up.
The janitor fired strong, but the protests continued.
Even as he sat there at the head of the long table, he jocosely remarked to Diggs that he would have to borrow a saw from the janitor the next day and reduce the size of his board by five feet at least.
Indeed, said Monsieur Rouquin, it was not improbable that they might find the excellent Rousseaus in the apartment on their arrival there, as he had given directions to the janitor to admit them without question.
Investigations proved that he had left the building at precisely sixteen minutes of seven, the janitor declaring that he had looked at his watch the instant the old man appeared on the sidewalk where he was shovelling away the snow.
In the morning the janitor took back to school in his pocket the Monkey and the Doll.
The teacher in the room where Herbert, Dick and their friends studied was much surprised when the janitor gave her the Doll and the Monkey, and told about finding them in her desk with an upset bottle of ink.
All the other dolls and toys will think I have spent a vacation at the seashore, as the janitor says.
The janitor opened the lid of the desk, at the same time saying: "I'd better take the teacher's things out and keep them for her until morning.
Of course both the toys kept very still as soon as the janitor looked at them.
It did not take the school janitor long to cork the ink bottle and stop any more of the black fluid running out.
But perhaps you can clean them," said the janitor to his little girl.
I think I had better call the janitor and have him take care of your monkey for you," and she started toward the door.
The janitor had shut off some of the water in the broken pipes, and he was going about from room to room to see how much damage had been done.
My companion uttered two words; and the door opened, giving access to a stairs, which we ascended, the janitor having already disappeared.
