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Perhaps he will manage to bear up at my departure. But here we are, he added, as the cab drew up. 'I wonder if Comrade Jackson is still going strong. They passed through the turnstile, and caught sight of the telegraph-board. 'By Jove! said Psmith, 'he is. I don't know if he's number three or number six. I expect he's number six. In which case he has got ninety-eight.
Within a few seconds of the time a deal was made from the centre of the Stock Exchange it appeared on the tape in X.'s office. It dropped to his price. "Now, time this," said he; "1204 I want. "He has got my message, and I am holding the wire till I get a reply. Now he has sent it on his private wire to the Stock Exchange; his own telephone-boy has already his number on the telegraph-board.
It was all very pleasant and soothing after the pantomime dame and her stuffy bed-sitting room. He sat down on a bench beside the second eleven telegraph-board, and looked across the ground at the pavilion. For the first time that day he began to feel really home-sick.
The voice of the scorer, addressing from his little wooden hut the melancholy youth who was working the telegraph-board, broke it. "One for two. Last man duck." Ellerby echoed the remark. He got up, and took off his blazer. "This is all right," he said, "isn't it! I wonder if the man at the other end is a sort of young Rhodes too!" Fortunately he was not.
The pavilion was filled with howling enthusiasts, who cheered every hit in a frenzy. Jimmy Silver began to look worried. He held a hasty consultation with Kennedy. The telegraph-board now showed the figures 60 9 8. "This won't do," said Silver. "It would be too foul to get licked after having nine of them out for eighteen.
Kennedy he played with a shade more respect than the others, but he never failed to score a three or a single off the last ball of each of his overs. The figures on the telegraph-board rose from twenty to thirty, from thirty to forty, from forty to fifty. Williams went on at the lower end instead of Challis, and Fenn made twelve off his first over.
Good-bye. 'Good-bye. Mike replaced the receiver, and went up to his balcony again. As soon as his eye fell on the telegraph-board he saw with a start that things had been moving rapidly in his brief absence. The numbers of the batsmen on the board were three and five. 'Great Scott! he cried. 'Why, I'm in next. What on earth's been happening?
The last balls of the next two overs provided repetitions of this performance. But each time luck was with him, and his bat was across the crease before the bails were off. The telegraph-board showed a hundred and fifty. The next over was doubly sensational. The original medium-paced bowler had gone on again in place of the fast man, and for the first five balls he could not find his length.
If he succeeded, all would be well. He did not care to think what his position would be if he did not succeed. A distant appeal and a sound of clapping from the crowd broke in on his thoughts. Mills was out, caught at the wicket. The telegraph-board gave the total as forty-eight. Not sensational. The success of the team depended largely on what sort of a start the two professionals made.
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