Crossword-Solution: DESKMAN 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up." The latter was reaching for the keys to a cell when the American broke off his pleasant flow of conversation to remark; "All right, Corporal, I'm going over to the house to get a few things and write a few letters.

Next he grasped a telephone and, in the words of the deskman, "spit Spig into the 'phone" for several minutes.

The Zone and Panama telephones were ringing in their two opposing dialects, the deskman was shouting his own peculiar brand of Spanish into one receiver and bawling English at the other, all hands were diving into old clothes, the most apathetic of the force were girding up their loins with the adventurous fire of the old Moro-hunting days in their eyes, and all, some ahorse, more afoot, were dashing one by one out into the night and the jungle.

The discussion of principles, the exposure of an adversary's weakness or inconsistencies, the weighty marshalling of uncounted words, were to him the breath of life; and with happy disregard of the need to back phrases with deeds, there now opened before him a career of argumentation, of logical deduction and exposition, constituting a condition of political and personal enjoyment which only the deskman can fully appreciate.

Good bye." She watched him as he moved away into the crowd, with powerful erect body--the deskman's droop almost gone out of his shoulders.