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The door of the adjacent room opened and shut, and he heard the President fold up the documents and say: "Take these with you, they are all signed. Tomorrow morning oh, I forgot, it's morning now the ninth of February." Then some one went out and closed the door and the President was alone again. The next moment he joined the Secretary of War in the telegraph-room.
"I might try a matter like this once in a while, but I want to work up as an operator, not a detective." "You'll work up OK," declared the chief. "Good evening, young man!" With a start Jack turned toward the quietly opened door of the telegraph-room to discover a short, dark, heavily-bearded man, over whose eyes was pulled a soft gray hat.
She went on further, and called to Charlotte, who was now regularly sleeping in the castle, to accompany her, and together they ascended to the telegraph-room in the donjon tower. 'Whom are you going to telegraph to? said Miss De Stancy when they stood by the instrument. 'My architect. 'O Mr. Havill. 'Mr. Somerset.
Only the rebel "fly-by-nights" were more like the Irishman's flea "when you put your hand on him, he was not there!" The President looking in at the telegraph-room in the White House, happened to find Major Eckert in. He saw he was counting greenbacks. So he said jokingly: "I believe you never come to business now but to handle money!"
Then he went into the telegraph-room, and glanced over the report, a copy of which he had received half an hour ago. Then he examined the various positions on the map, placing some of the blocks more accurately. Then a bell rang and steps could be heard in the hall.
When he had set them going he ascended the staircase of the great tower for some purpose that bore upon the forthcoming repairs of this part. Passing the door of the telegraph-room he heard little sounds from the instrument, which somebody was working. Only two people in the castle, to the best of his knowledge, knew the trick of this; Miss Power, and a page in her service called John.
However, here he was; and picking up his two suitcases, the boy made his way in to the tiny operating-room, and on into the bunk-kitchen-living-room behind. For here, "a hundred miles from anywhere," the operator's board and lodging was provided by the railroad. Early that evening Wilson was sitting somewhat disconsolately at the telegraph-room window when he was startled by a loud whoop.
Instead of going to his room, just across the street from the station, he went up-stairs and sat down with the train-despatchers. After an hour of indecision, marked by alternative fits of making up and unmaking his mind, he went, instead of going to bed, into the telegraph-room, where black-haired Dick Grady sat at a key. "How about the fight to-night at Sleepy Cat?" Grady asked at once.
While he waited his sister looked out upon him from an upper casement, having caught sight of him as she came from Paula in the telegraph-room. 'Well, Lottie, what news this morning? he said gaily. 'Nothing of importance. We are quite well..... She added with hesitation, 'There is one piece of news; Mr. Havill but perhaps you have heard it in Markton? 'Nothing. 'Mr.
"No; you couldn't get to them. The telegraph room is a furnace. The fire came in through the office windows from the outhouse, and I closed the door from the store." Through the haze of smoke within burst a lurid fork of flame. "There! The fire is out through the telegraph-room door," said the druggist. "You couldn't get near the table.
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