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Updated: June 17, 2025
They were like waxen things in the absolute perfection of their tiny petals; and there seemed to be hundreds of them, each as perfect as a violet ever was, smiling at her with friendly blue faces. No clue to the sender could be found at first, for no card was visible. She and Ross hunted all through the box, and finally, way down in one corner under the paper, she discovered a damp white scrap.
Hudson has told all. Fly for your life. "Victor Trevor sank his face into his shaking hands. 'It must be that, I suppose, said he. "This is worse than death, for it means disgrace as well. But what is the meaning of these "head-keepers" and "hen-pheasants"? "'It means nothing to the message, but it might mean a good deal to us if we had no other means of discovering the sender.
"Sender: Novelty Jewelry Company, no address," read Bart, "shipped to James Barclay, Millville not found. This is a promising-looking package. Gentlemen, what am I bid?" Lem Wacker seemed to have some spare cash, for he paid two dollars for the box, swaggered off with it, and opening it disclosed a very small and neat pocket alarm clock.
On the Meyer and Baudot principle, the ordinary Morse sender has to wait for certain clicks, which indicate at which moment a letter may be sent; but on the Delany plan each of the six clerks can peg away as he chooses he can send at any rate he likes, and he is not disturbed in any way by having any sound to guide or control his ear. The Delany is a very promising system.
The Revised Version of the Bible has again another translation, a rather unhappy compromise. I believe the correct rendering " "It is sarcasm," interrupted a French Secretariat official, "C'est l'ironie. The sender means that we are of so little use that in his eyes we don't exist. C'est tout. We're used to these gibes."
"I told thee," continued the Astrologer, "that the conjunction of planets under which he set forth augured danger to the person and hath not his path been beset by danger? I told thee that it augured an advantage to the sender and of that thou wilt soon have the benefit." "Soon have the benefit!" exclaimed the King. "Have I not the result already, in disgrace and imprisonment?"
When adjustment is satisfactory to the called station, it will cut off its flash and the calling station will proceed with its message. If the receiver sees that the sender's mirror or light needs adjustment, he will turn on a steady flash until answered, by a steady flash. When the adjustment is satisfactory the receiver will cut off his flash and the sender will resume his message.
Again, by a liberal construction of the publisher's announcement, MANUSCRIPT poems, which had never known print, began to coyly unfold their virgin blossoms in the morning's mail. They were accompanied by a few lines stating, casually, that their sender had found them lying forgotten in his desk, or, mendaciously, that they were "thrown off" on the spur of the moment a few hours before.
She twisted and untwisted the newspaper. Should she? Ought she? Was it not dreadfully improper and bizarre? Had she not always regretted these singular impulses? And yet, what harm to read this letter and return it to the sender? She was so lonely here; it was like being among a strange people, so long ago was it that her foot had touched this soil. Was it possible that she was twenty-five?
Overton, whoever he might be, since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life. As we had expected, the telegram was soon followed by its sender, and the card of Mr.
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