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Updated: June 20, 2025
Promptness of response and thoroughness of diagnosis were, of course, the keynotes of the service: where the cases were urgent, the special delivery post and, later, the night-letter telegraph service were used. The plan is now in its eleventh year of successful operation.
Privately I spent a dollar and a half sending a night-letter to Richard all about it and asking him if the Commissioners would be willing to stand for this feminist plank in the barbecue deal.
"Do you hear from Chicago while you're down here, Roddy?" she asked. "Whether everything's all right at home, I mean?" It was a second or two before he answered, but when he did, his voice was perfectly steady. "Yes," he said. "I get a night-letter every morning from Miss French. "Good-by, then, till noon," she said.
"Telegraph" said Cartwright, who did not lose time when he had made a plan. "When the lines are not engaged after business hours, you can send a night-letter; a long message at less than the proper charge." Mrs. Cartwright looked pleased. Although she was rich and sometimes generous, she liked small economies. "After all, writing a letter's tiresome," she said. "Telegrams are easy.
"Now," said Zoie, when they were properly seated, "let's stop at a telegraph office and let Jimmy send a wire to Alfred." "Wait until we get the baby," cautioned Aggie. "We'll have it the first thing in the morning," argued Zoie. "Jimmy can send him a night-letter," compromised Aggie, "that way Alfred won't get the news until morning."
He had sent her a night-letter saying that he had passed his examinations for an officers' training-camp, and expected to leave for Georgia shortly. She had not answered. He had wired again when he received no word he imagined that she might be out of town. But it occurred and recurred to him that she was not out of town, and a series of distraught imaginings began to plague him.
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