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Updated: June 13, 2025
They waited behind the big door column for several minutes. Suddenly a man came swinging through the portal. It was Sawyer. Bobbie remembered him instantly, while Mary gripped his arm until she pinched it. "We'll follow him," said Burke, for the girl had already told of the dictagraph conversation. Follow him they did. Up one street and down another.
This is a recording instrument which combines the phonograph and the dictagraph.
"Balcom and Zita are listening on the dictagraph. Pretend to quarrel with me." Eva read in amazement as he wrote. Quickly she comprehended. Then they walked silently until they were almost under the chandelier which held the transmitter of the dictagraph. "I have something I want to say to you, Mr. Locke," began Eva, with a wink and a smile at him, "and it grieves me to say it."
After you have all this prepared, Mary, you must start the mechanism going, and then get the reproduction of the conversation as it comes on the dictagraph." "All right, father but how shall we get it there without Mr. Trubus knowing about it? He is very watchful of that room." Barton patted Bobbie's broad shoulder, with a confident smile. "I think Officer 4434 can devise a way for that.
Her first thought had been that Cheever had met with an accident and that Dyckman was bringing the news. She had given up the hope of involving Dyckman with Mrs. Cheever, after wasting Cheever's money on vain detectives. When Dyckman was ushered in she greeted him from her divan. "Pardon my negligee," she said. "I'm not very well." He saw at a glance that the dictagraph had told the truth.
This machine is run by an automatic spring, which you must wind like a clock. Here I will wind it myself to have all in readiness." He rolled his chair swiftly to his work table, and turned the little crank, continuing his plan of attack. "Now, take the long wire, and run it through the door of the private office up close to the desk. Attach this disc to the dictagraph receiver.
"That is an arrangement by which this fellow Clemm has been making duplicates of all his transactions in his own writing," explained Burke. "You see this Trubus has trusted no one. He has a definite record of every deal spread out before him by the other pencil on the machine upstairs, just as this go-between writes it out. Then here is the dictagraph, under the desk."
And with such malicious humor does Fate work her will that she chose Sam Hupp's new dictagraph as the instrument with which to prick the bubble of Mrs. McChesney's self-confidence. Sam Hupp, one of the copy-writing marvels of the Berg, Shriner firm, had a trick of forgetting to shut off certain necessary currents when he paused in his dictation to throw in conversational asides.
"Unpleasant, wasn't it?" he asked grimly. "I try to school myself against it, but with all my experience, a scene like this makes me sick at heart. I know the wretch deserves what is coming to him, just as Rockamore knew when he unfalteringly sped that bullet just as Carlis knew when he heard his own voice repeated by the dictagraph.
"But how could you install a dictagraph without their finding it out?" "Easiest thing you know. We'll probably have to rent an apartment in the same building or another one near-by, and one of the hall-boys there may be workin' for us now. If not, we can usually bring him in.
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