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The first read like this: CALVIN S. WISE, The People's Drug Store, 28 Broad Street, Brockboro, Mass.: Send package 1,500 units Diphtheritic Serum marked with my name to station. Hand to Conductor Mills, Cape Cod express. Train will wait. Matter life and death. The second telegram was to Conductor Mills. It read: Hold train Brockboro to await arrival C. A. Wise. Great personal favor.
After a moment's deliberation he went over to the ticket office and asked: "What is the first stop of the Cape Cod express?" "Brockboro," answered the ticket seller. "Is the train usually on time?" "Well, I should smile. That's Charlie Mills's train, and the old man ain't been conductor on this road twenty-two years for nothin'." "Mills? Does he live on Shawmut Avenue?" "Dunno.
But this story cannot be told just now; suffice it to say that Conductor Charlie Mills had vowed that he would put his neck beneath the wheels of his own express train, if by so doing he could confer a favor on Dr. John Spencer Morgan. The assistant saw by his time-table that the Cape Cod express reached Brockboro at 8:05. He went over to the telegraph office and wrote two telegrams.
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