deskman

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

But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.

But the deskmen command a temporary majority: for the short while they shall hold the cards they have the right to call the game.

There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."

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