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He examined it carefully, feeling where the wires entered and left it starting to trace them out. At last he came to a point where it seemed suitable to make a connection for some purpose he had in mind. Quickly he took some wire from his bag and connected it with the electric light wires. Next, he led these wires, concealed of course, along the cellar floor, in the direction of the furnace.
You don't expect to see me stand by and countenance your craziness?" "Why! Why! I've asked it ever since the moment I sent the wire. Why! I had to do it somehow a fear of something war life death but you shall not have her. Not unless she decides it that way. No. Never!" "I'm a slow thinker! And slower to act. That's been my trouble. But this time the bit is between my teeth.
She was evidently, however, a little vexed with herself for feeling the insult so keenly. "It is very stupid of me," she said laughing a little; "it is time I was used to it; but I never can help shaking in this silly way when any one is rude to us. Tom laughs at me, and says I am made on wire springs like a twelfth-cake butterfly!
"If it was a frame, it held a miniature," she said quietly. "Please twist the wire around it again. I prefer the brass ring." "Because?" "I would not rob any one. If you have carried the picture all these leagues, it is a token from some one you love; some one who loves you. I have no part in that." I went on plaiting the wire.
Nevertheless, she was glad that a wire fence separated them from her, for though she was not a coward and would not have stopped now if there had been no fence, there was something rather terrifying about a great drove of cattle in a lonely place. "They're much too far off to see my red-covered sunshade," she thought.
Farland though a moment, and then suggested a certain famous restaurant on Broadway and a table in a corner of the main room, where a man could lose himself in the crowd. But that did not meet with the approval of the man at the other end of the telephone wire. "Nothing doing in that place," he said. "One of the men interested in this thing hangs out there almost every evening.
The loveliest, most variegated flower-garden lay round her; tulips, roses, and lilies, were glittering in the fairest colors; blue and gold-red butterflies were wavering in the blossoms; cages of shining wire were hung on the espaliers, with many-colored birds in them, singing beautiful songs; and children in short white frocks, with flowing yellow hair and brilliant eyes, were frolicking about; some playing with lambkins, some feeding the birds, or gathering flowers and giving them to one another; some, again, were eating cherries, grapes, and ruddy apricots.
Her voice became bright with animation upon learning that Beth was upon the wire. "There's no one in New York whom I'd rather talk with this moment, Miss Truba." "And why?" "That portrait at the Smilax Club I saw it yesterday. I'm writing about it.... The face I know and you have done it tremendously! I can't tell you how it affected me. Don't bother to come down here. Let me go to you."
One end of it was introduced into the shack through a knothole, and the other was secured by wire round the faucet of hydrant in the stable. Thus, if members of the order were assailed by thirst during an important session, or in the course of an initiation, it would not be necessary for them all to leave the shack.
The mast itself is made in lengths of about four feet, which are slipped together in the manner of the sections of a fishing rod, and erected, being supported by means of wire guys. In this manner an antenna from 40 to 50 feet in height may be obtained.
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