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Five minutes ago I came down here in order to get a telegraph-form, as I wanted to send a wire at the earliest possible moment to-morrow, when, to my surprise, I saw a light beneath the door. "Oh, no, no!" gasped the girl, in horrified protest. "It's a lie!" "I crept in quietly, and was very surprised to find Gabrielle with the safe open, and alone.
Before him lay a telegraph-form bearing nothing but the address C.C. BODERY, Beacon Office, Fleet St., London. He was gazing mechanically at the blank spaces waiting to be filled in, and through his mind was passing and repassing the same question that occupied the thoughts of his mother and sisters. What could be the explanation of the whistle heard by Molly?
"If Mahomet can not go to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mahomet." The memory of this classical quotation tickled him, and he went chuckling into the Cannon Street post office and wrote out a telegraph-form. "Reinstatement. Come at once. Shall expect you this evening without fail."
'The Royal Bonanza shares are dear, and then we have had no information about it. I think we had better back our own opinion. 'All right, Frank. 'Then that is settled. I have a telegraph-form here. 'Could you not buy them yourself when you are in town? 'No, you can't buy things yourself. You have to do it through a broker.
The idea commended itself to Briggs: he had not thought of such a thing: telegraphing had perhaps hardly come within his purview, at least so I surmised when, the telegraph-form before me, I asked him what he wished me to write. He began cheerily, as though dictating a letter of gossip: "My dear wife " Economy necessitated a taboo of this otherwise charming method of communication.
"She could hardly keep a straight face," as she reported downstairs subsequently, "that ridiculous Farge was so full of his jokes." Iglesias tore open the yellow envelope and held the telegraph-form to the light. "Glorious luck. Happy as a queen. Come to supper after performance to-morrow. Love. Poppy," His face softened.
To so intelligent a girl, a hint should be enough. He drew the telegraph-form that still lay on the table towards him. 'Let us see how it would sound, shall we? He detached a gold pencil from one end of his watch-chain, and, with face more and more intent, bent over the paper, writing.
There was a little writing-room at one side of the hall and I sat there to write my telegram. It ran "Please send name and address reliable solicitor London whom I can consult on important business." I was holding the telegraph-form in my hand and reading my message again and again to make sure that it would lead to no mischief, when I began to think of Martin Conrad.
It proved to be from Dickson, and had been sent off from Dover. I took my codebook from my pocket and translated the message upon the back of the telegraph-form. It ran as follows "Man with triangular scar upon left cheek, brown bag and travelling rug, boarded train at Herne Hill, went through to Dover, and has booked to Paris. Am following him according to instructions."
As he left the courtyard to reach his horse that was tethered to the gate-post, Holden spoke to the white-haired old watchman who guarded the house, and bade him under certain contingencies despatch the filled-up telegraph-form that Holden gave him. It was all that could be done, and with the sensations of a man who has attended his own funeral Holden went away by the night mail to his exile.
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