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'She's promised, he says, an' he'll kape on 'She's-promising' for all o' me, for it's not tell him I will! He can go to slape in his poor little boots, expectin' her to kape her promise!" The woman with the receiver at her ear uttered a low exclamation. She had not forgotten the Promise, but it had not impressed her as anything vital. She had given it merely to comfort Little Silly when he cried.
On the next day the cotton which had been hung out was now brought on the beach, at a good distance from the chief's house, and then run out at full length, and a number of bearers, about three yards apart, bore it triumphantly away from the giver to the receiver. I suppose that about six hundred to eight hundred yards were thus disposed of.
No explanation was added; a single sentence executed the work, and in the third person. He did not once reflect on the outcry in the ear of London coming from the receiver of such a letter upon payment of a debt.
The air inside might be said to be a magnet, though if there were no air there, and the coil were under the exhausted receiver of an air-pump, the effect would be the same, and the vacuum would be magnetized.
In calling a station face it squarely and make its call. If there is no immediate reply wave the flags over the head to attract attention, making the call at frequent intervals. When the sender makes "end of message" the receiver, if message is understood, extends the flags horizontally and waves them until the sender does the same, when both leave their stations.
Ellicott had hung up the receiver, leaving him to shriek "But listen " pitiably into the little black mouthpiece in front of him until Central cut in on him angrily with "Say, whatcha tryin' to do, fella? Break my ear?"
He held the receiver away from him and turned towards his brother. "George," he gasped, "the greatest tragedy in the world has happened! My ape is stolen!" His brother looked at him blankly. "Your ape is stolen?" he repeated. "The skeleton of my anthropoid ape," the Professor continued, his voice growing alike in sadness and firmness. "It is the curator of the museum who is speaking.
All sorts of fancies filled my brain. The girl who had given me the rose was young, pretty, and rich. I could make my fortune before one could turn round. And sheep and pigs, turkeys, and fat geese stuffed with apples verily, I seemed to see the Porter strutting up to me: "Seize your luck, Receiver, seize your luck!
"Oh, I don't know," was Chester's reply. "I saw a German sentinel, but he didn't see me in the darkness." "It was his business to see, however," declared Hal. "Well, that's true. But now let's listen and seen if we can overhear anything of importance." Chester clapped the little receiver to his ear. Hal became silent. Ten minutes later Chester removed the receiver from his ear.
Gradually they drew their lines around the city; but still, from the tapped wires, the messages came to them, sitting in conclave in the library to Philip Harris in his bare office and to the mother, waiting alone in her room. At last she could not bear it. "I cannot hold out, Philip," she said, one day, when he had come in and found her hanging up the receiver with a fixed look.
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