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"Only you must allow me to go down to the office for a little while in the morning." "Very well. Remember, all telegrams and telephone messages are to be tabooed after you leave there." "Granted. What about all newspaper assignments?" "Turn about is fair play," returned Mabel, flushing. "They can keep the telephone messages and telegrams company."
And by the way, if there are telegrams you know I told the servants to send them on from home shall I wire them on to Oued Tolga?" "No. We're tramps, with no address," laughed Nevill. "Anything that comes can wait till we get back."
His coming was preceded by telegrams going in both directions, talks over the long distance 'phone, and when at last he came in all his glory, a rainbow troop consisting of honor scouts was formed to go down to Catskill Landing and greet him. One scout who would presently be handed the Gold Cross for life saving was among the number.
Three telegrams this day, not to mention a special delivery letter that they've been hunting all over the country for him with. And on top of that, an important little man with brass buttons and shoulder-straps, struttin' all over the place and askin' everybody if he's Mr. Fulton, the inventor. When'd your dad get to be an inventor?" "Well, he had to be born sometime," answered Tod dryly. "Eh?
'I'm sorry we missed him, she said, 'but we haven't a minute; and, calling on her daughters to follow, she dashed again into the whirl of a day that would not end for many hours, though it had begun twelve hours ago a day of haste and anticipation it had been, filled with cries of 'Mamma, telegrams, letters, and injunctions not to forget this and that a day whose skirts trailed in sneers and criticisms, a hypocritical and deceitful day, a day of intrigue, a day in which the post-box was the chief factor a great day withal.
Many of these notes and telegrams, however, found their way into the Whig, but Shelby hunted its despised columns in vain for his own. This seemed to him and to Bowers a deliberate attempt by Sprague to stamp him as unfeeling, to coin party capital, and with the notion of righting himself in the public eye Shelby determined upon a personal call at the house.
The newspaper reporters wrote articles and sent telegrams, not only about the Blue Peak and the dreadful death, but about the locality, and about the Tore Peak resort, that haven for the weary, with its wonderful buildings set like jewels in the mountains.
Ames, get ready to take these telegrams " "And thin he said, 'May I have this, too, Father? and he rolled it up, and said General Jackson would certainly be obliged and would return thim in good order. That's all that I know of the matter, general, saving and excepting, that the ribil columns certainly started next morning with their faces toward the great State of Pennsylvania.
But they sought in vain; it was not to be seen, and they resolved to await the telegrams from Long's Peak. The director of the Cambridge Observatory, M. Belfast, was at his post in the Rocky Mountains, and it was to this skilful and persevering astronomer that the observations had been entrusted.
In our days of telephones and telegrams and wireless telegraphy, it is very nearly impossible for us to understand how an army of ninety thousand foot, twelve thousand horse, and thirty-seven elephants could go right through Spain from Carthagena in the south-east to the Pyrenees in the north, and even beyond them, without a whisper of the fact reaching an enemy across the sea.
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