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As may well be imagined their report caused considerable excitement. "We'll get right after 'em!" cried Tom Cardiff. "I just got a telephone message from the secret service men that they are on their way here. They'll arrive in about an hour. We were counting on getting on the trail ourselves to-day, but you boys got ahead of us. So in about an hour we'll start.
In 1893 there were 740,000 miles of wire, and more than 20,000 offices. The receipts for the year first named are unknown, but for 1893 they were about $24,000,000. The expenses of the system for the same year were $16,500,000. The telephone, an industry now about sixteen years old, had in 1893, for the Bell alone, over 200,000 miles of wire on poles, and over 90,000 miles of wire under ground.
"The party on the wire asked to speak to the gentleman who arrived about half an hour ago, and I guess you must be the one he means." "Did he say who he is?" asked Aubrey. "No, sir." For a moment Aubrey thought of refusing to answer the call. Then it occurred to him that this would arouse Mrs. Schiller's suspicions. He ran down to the telephone, which stood under the stairs in the front hall.
By and bye another idea occurred to Charlie. He would call upon his cousin Diana, and get her to telephone Madame Cerise for information about Louise. It would do no harm to enlighten Diana as to what he had done. She must suspect it already; and was she not a co-conspirator? But he could not wisely make this call until the afternoon.
It was death painless but inevitable death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape. Such was the news which, in scattered, distracted messages, the telephone had brought us. The great cities already knew their fate and so far as we could gather were preparing to meet it with dignity and resignation.
"That's me," answered Maw; "I don't deny it." "Did you write that on the formation?" Maw could not tell a lie any more than George Washington when caught, so she confessed on the spot. "Then you are under arrest! Don't you know it's against the regulations to deface any natural object in the park? I'll have to telephone in the number of your car.
We say this deliberately, knowing that the reader will think of the times when the trouble he has had in getting the number he wanted has made him think there was not a thimbleful of intelligence among all of the people associated with the entire telephone company. But considering the body of employees as a whole the standard of courteous and competent service is extraordinarily high.
It is now known that he knew through them all that an ocean cable could finally be laid. THE TELEPHONE. The telegraph had become old. All nations had become accustomed to its use.
It was a strange sound just then, because both doors had already been shut when she went to the telephone, the door leading into her bedroom, the door into the hall, and she had heard neither open since. Yet she could not be mistaken. Somebody had closed one of those doors and must previously have opened it. Sick with fear, Beverley dropped the receiver and ran to look into the hall.
That relieves, your aldermen of all responsibility, doesn't it?" "Another telephone company!" he repeated. I had already named it on my walk. "The Interurban," I said. "A dummy company?" said Mr. Jason. "Lively enough to bid something over a hundred thousand to the city for its franchise," I replied.
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