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Updated: May 3, 2025
I had some knowledge of Morse telegraphy, and of the manipulation of tape-machines, telegraphic typing-machines, and the ordinary wireless transmitter and coherer, as of most little things of that sort which came within the outskirts of the interest of a man of science; I had collaborated with Professor Stanistreet in the production of a text-book called 'Applications of Science to the Arts, which had brought us some notoriety; and, on the whole, the minutiae of modern things were still pretty fresh in my memory.
At this moment there was a magnetic stampede of members towards the lobby, where the tape-machines were ticking out some news of more than ordinary import. "COUP D'ETAT in the North. Thistlebery seizes Edinburgh Castle. Threatens civil war unless Government expands naval programme." In the babel which ensued Belturbet lost sight of his young friend.
In spite of newspapers and letters and tape-machines and telegrams and such like aids to the speedy diffusion of news, the same travels quicker in villages than in cities. Word of mouth can spread gossip with marvelous rapidity in sparsely inhabited communities, since it is obvious that in such places every person knows the other as the saying goes inside out.
Hence the anxiety in the crowded Court, and in the little groups gathered round the tape-machines in Whitehall and Downing Street and other affected centres. The jury returned from considering their verdict; there was a flutter, an excited murmur, a deathlike hush. The foreman delivered his message: "The jury find the prisoner guilty of blowing up the Albert Hall.
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