tapless

Updated: August 3, 2026

"Stone that was the man's name was running a tapless wire-tapping game. You've read about the trick, I expect. Every one has known about it since Larry Summerfield was sent to Sing Sing. But it was new then. There are lots of ways of doing it. Stone's was to hire a room and fix it up to look like a branch of the Western Union Telegraph Company.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Gem Collector