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Tell him the time-card's changed and he is to run west with the special to Megilp as first section of the mail no stops, or Tischer will run him down. Leg it! He's half-way down the yard, now!" The train-master dropped the ear-piece of the telephone and crossed quickly to the despatcher's table. "Orders for the Western Division, Donohue," he said curtly, "and don't let the grass grow.
Well, I also observed that it gives Duncan some trouble to speak loud enough to her. So I have invented a sort of ear-trumpet a tin pipe with an ear-piece at one end and a mouth-piece at the other, which I hope may make things easier." "Hev ye not tried it yet?" asked McKay. "Not yet. I've only just brought it." "Go down, lad, an' try it at wanse, an' let me know what the upshot iss."
North in the face as a preliminary. Under the circumstances, he'd take it that way; Penfield would make sure that he took it that way." It was at this point in the low-toned conference that the ingenious young man in the outer office put down the desk telephone ear-piece long enough to smite with his fist at some air-drawn antagonist.
"One of the most successful of these various contrivances, and the one, indeed, in which I was most deeply interested, was a small machine very much resembling in appearance the tube, with a mouth-piece at one end and an ear-piece at the other, frequently used by deaf persons, but very different in its construction and action.
'Well, well, well? he cried comically, lifting the ear-piece off the hook and stopping the bell. 'Are you there? the still small voice of the telephone whispered in his ear. 'I should think I was here! he cried. 'Who are you? 'Are you Mr. Hugo? asked the voice. 'I'm what's left of Mr. Hugo, he answered in a sort of drunken tone. The power of the sedative was still upon him. 'Who are you?
A decision irrevocable; the power almost of a deity seemed behind its finality. "No! I will not do it!" Careful, slow enunciation as though to make sure an inferior mentality could not mistake his words. And with a click, Tarrano broke connection. The mirror went dark; he hung his little disc and ear-piece back on his belt.
In the course of its construction I had frequently tried the machine by putting the ear-piece into my ear and speaking into the mouth-piece such scraps of foreign languages as I was able to command.
First the telephone bell rang smartly, and when the telegraph operator took down the ear-piece and said "Well?" in the imperious tone common to his kind, he evidently received a communication that shocked him. Ormsby overheard but a meager half of the wire conversation; and the excitement, whatever its nature, was at the other end of the line.
The tympanum T is that which is used for recording the sounds, and M is a mouthpiece, which is fixed to it for speaking purposes. The other tympanum, T', reproduces the sounds; and E E is a branched ear-piece, conveying them to the two ears of the listener. The separate wax tube, P, is a phonogram with the spiral trace of the sounds already printed on its surface, and ready for posting.
No; Mr. Wyse should want. She would say that she had friends dining with her; that was what the true lady would do. She took up the ear-piece and said, "Hullo!" It was certainly Mr. Wyse's voice that spoke to her, and it seemed to tremble with anxiety. "Dear lady," he began, "a most terrible thing has happened " "Quite terrible," said Mr. Wyse. "Can you hear?"
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