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On my road to the hotel I stopped at the telegraph-office and dispatched the news of Stella's death to Guido Ferrari in Rome. He would be surprised, I thought, but certainly not grieved the poor child had always been in his way. Would he come back to Naples to console the now childless widow?
The girl's voice was colorless, and she did not look at Rufus who regarded her uncertainly. "All right," he said at last. "Perhaps it would be as well to wait till some day we're in town and you can talk to 'em. I'll wire for some eats anyway." When they reached the village the car stopped before the telegraph-office.
The Colonel left the room, bound for the telegraph-office, just before a shrill scream came from the corridor, without, startling Layson greatly. "Oh, dellaw!" the frightened voice said. "Le' me out! Le' me out!"
It contained a fort, a signal-station, and a telegraph-office, though there is nothing in the shape of a village. The East India Company's ships made this their port; but the improvement of the navigation of the river enables all the steamers to go up to the city, to which their arrival is telegraphed.
But the turmoil in the vicinity of the hotel now drew their attention, and they ran with others, for public blood-letting is ever an attractive pastime to those who form the audience. Dick was then leaving the telegraph-office, whence he had despatched a cablegram on his own account. Bare civility demanded that he should acknowledge Mr.
There he dropped in at the telegraph-office, he could have sent it from the adjutant's office just as well, and, after some deliberation, wrote this despatch: "WILLARD RALLSTON, ESQ., Omaha. "Why no letter? When you coming? Act now. Ferguson gone. Being in town he dropped in at one or two places of popular resort, and had more or less conversation with the hangers-on at the open bars.
Meditatively he examined his pockets nothing! nothing but the gold piece. Something must be done. There were a number of garments hanging on the wall, among them an overcoat. "I can do without that," he said, with a shiver. Half an hour later, richer by a few pieces of silver, he stood in a telegraph-office, penning a message to Pert. "Letter received," he wrote. "Am well, but no luck.
James Street he stopped the hansom, went into the telegraph-office, and sent off the following message: "Five pounds will reach you to-morrow morning. You cannot refuse my first gift in our new relationship. Maurice." And thereafter he went on to Piccadilly feeling richer, indeed, rather than poorer.
I'll tell you what we have got to do: we will get into a hansom and drive to a telegraph-office, and I'll get rid of that engagement; then we'll go on to the Restaurant Gianuzzi, and you and I will have a little luncheon by ourselves, just to prepare us for the fatigues of the day; then you will get your things ready, and I will take you down to Mrs.
A roar of laughter greeted this answer. "Not letters," answered the young man quickly. "The post-office has nothing to do with that." "Perhaps you mean the telegraph-office?" said one of the officers ironically. "Nor that either," answered the midshipman, who would not give in. "But it is very easy to establish graphic communication with the earth." "And how, pray?"
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