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Pan Demos, v. 1, issue 2, March 1949
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debit you with fifty seconds to cover the cheque-book. And we always recommend 'bearer' cheques as, on the whole, more convenient." Peter said he would have fifty bearer cheques, and was accordingly given an oblong gray-green book, which, except that it was a trifle smaller, was in nowise different, outwardly, from an ordinary cheque-book. Still, his curiosity was not completely satisfied. "There is just one question more," he said. "When I draw this time, where will it be spent?" "Why, naturally, on board this ship," explained the Manager. "You see that time you will get must necessarily be the extra time you are entitled to which by virtue of your passage, and which you would have spent as it accrued if you had not chosen to deposit it with us. By the way, when you are filling up cheques, we much prefer not to be called upon to honor drafts for less than fifteen minutes -- as much more as you like, but not less. Well, then, we may consider that settled. I am extremely glad to have had the opportunity of obliging you; and I think I can promise that you will have no reason to repent of having made such a use of your time. I'll wish you good-by for the present, sir!" The Manager resumed his hygienic tramp round the deck, leaving Peter with the cheque-book in his hand. He was no longer surprised: now that he was more familiar with the idea, it seemed a perfectly natural and matter-of-fact arrangement; he only wondered that he had never thought of so obvious a plan before. And it was an immense relief to know that he had got rid of his extra hours for the present, at all events, and that he could now postpone them to a period at which they would be a boon rather than a burden. And very soon he put the cheque-book away, and forgot all about it. THE END OF PART FIRST -- TO BE CONTINUED 47
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debit you with fifty seconds to cover the cheque-book. And we always recommend 'bearer' cheques as, on the whole, more convenient." Peter said he would have fifty bearer cheques, and was accordingly given an oblong gray-green book, which, except that it was a trifle smaller, was in nowise different, outwardly, from an ordinary cheque-book. Still, his curiosity was not completely satisfied. "There is just one question more," he said. "When I draw this time, where will it be spent?" "Why, naturally, on board this ship," explained the Manager. "You see that time you will get must necessarily be the extra time you are entitled to which by virtue of your passage, and which you would have spent as it accrued if you had not chosen to deposit it with us. By the way, when you are filling up cheques, we much prefer not to be called upon to honor drafts for less than fifteen minutes -- as much more as you like, but not less. Well, then, we may consider that settled. I am extremely glad to have had the opportunity of obliging you; and I think I can promise that you will have no reason to repent of having made such a use of your time. I'll wish you good-by for the present, sir!" The Manager resumed his hygienic tramp round the deck, leaving Peter with the cheque-book in his hand. He was no longer surprised: now that he was more familiar with the idea, it seemed a perfectly natural and matter-of-fact arrangement; he only wondered that he had never thought of so obvious a plan before. And it was an immense relief to know that he had got rid of his extra hours for the present, at all events, and that he could now postpone them to a period at which they would be a boon rather than a burden. And very soon he put the cheque-book away, and forgot all about it. THE END OF PART FIRST -- TO BE CONTINUED 47
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