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And as it required trained painters of pictures like Fulton and Morse to visualize the possibility of the steamboat and the telegraph, so the bold seer who perceived the true nature of this new star in our nightly heavens, it should here be recorded, acquired much of the vision of his seeing eye through an early training in art.
With his thumb on the bell-button he recollected, and with a sigh broke open the final seal: Turn about and go to Lenox Street Station, B Railroad, reaching there by 8.05. Wait for messenger in west end of station, by telegraph office. C. W., Jr. It was a blow, but Cyrus had his second wind now. He felt like a machine a hollow one which could keep on going indefinitely.
They passed on talking. They hissed vivaciously; they rose to exclamations. I mean to say, there was no end of a gabbling row about it. There was in my mind no longer any room for hesitation. The quite harshest of extreme measures must be at once adopted before all was too late. I made my way to the telegraph office. It was not a time for correspondence by post.
The United States was divided into several sections, in each of which a separate company was organized to develop the telephone possibilities of that particular area. In 1899 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company took over the business and properties of the American Bell Company.
"It's Tom Brady's mother," answered our hero. "Is it Tom, the telegraph boy?" "Yes." "I'll show you then. Tom's been sick for some time." "I know it. I have come to see him." "Do you know Tom?" asked the girl, in some surprise; for Frank, having laid aside his uniform, was handsomely dressed, and looked like the son of a rich man. "Yes, Tom is a friend of mine. I am sorry he's sick."
As he sat in the telegraph office during the day or walked alone through the streets of Bidwell at night, he saw in fancy a thousand new machines, formed by his hands and brain, doing the work that had been done by the hands of men.
The boys thought it a capital joke, and Dan looked delighted, but asked, with an unexpected burst of virtue, "Will Mrs. Bhaer like it?" "Oh, yes; we settled all that a minute ago." "You didn't say any thing about it, so I don't see how you could," said Demi, inquisitively. "We have a way of sending messages to one another, without any words. It is a great improvement on the telegraph."
We therefore sent dispatches to all the telegraph stations within fifty miles to put the police on the watch and sent messengers to the outlying places, but somehow you slipped through our meshes, and nothing turned up until the car man returned at about 11 p.m., as drunk as a soldier on furlough.
I am only sorry I can't send a thousand kisses and my very heart by telegraph. Enjoy yourself, my darling. I sent the telegram, and next morning I gave her the receipt. The worst of it was that Orlov had thoughtlessly let Polya, too, into the secret of his deception, telling her to bring his shirts to Sergievsky Street.
It occurred to me, of course, to telegraph for relief; but I did not know how, and a kind of respect for the intelligence and power of the instrument deterred me from meddling with it to no visible end. Suddenly I remembered the electric signal which so often communicates with watchman or police in places of this kind.
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