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The rays from this flame were then directed by mirrors to a distant receiving station and there concentrated on a photo-electric selenium cell, which has the strange property of varying its resistance according to the illumination. Thus a telephone receiver arranged in series with it was made to reproduce the sounds.
But she doesn't dare lose her hold of him on account of the money, and so when HE isn't jealous she pretends to be." Miss Bart went on writing in silence, and her hostess sat following her train of thought with frowning intensity. "Do you know," she exclaimed after a long pause, "I believe I'll call up Lawrence on the telephone and tell him he simply MUST come?"
"I think, if you will telephone a little later to the State capital, you will find that he is in his room at the Pelican Hotel." "By thunder, Victoria!" he ejaculated, "you may be right. It would be like him."
Now and then dust and little showers of dry rot descended softly upon the upturned face; and if you put your ear close to the wood you could hear, as through the receiver of a telephone, things that were going on among the upper branches; as when the breeze puffed up and they sighed and creaked together.
Winters had left her alone for the evening after offering her an invitation to attend a little discussion group that met Wednesday evenings and read literary papers at each other, an invitation which Nancy somewhat stubbornly declined, that she finally made up her mind. Then she sighed and went to the telephone again. "Mr. Oliver Crowe?
Richard Cowser, with whom he had a conversation on the telephone from Dublin, met him at the railway station in Belfast and told him that he had a motor waiting to take him to Craigavon, where the Council was expecting him, and that he would see Mr. Sam Kelly, the owner of the Balmerino, there also. This news made Crawford very angry.
Colonel Rannion was continuing into the telephone: "I can recommend a friend of mine to you for a commission. George Cannon C-a-n-n-o-n the architect. I don't know whether you know of him.... Oh! About thirty.... No, but I think he'd suit you.... Who recommends him? I do.... Like to see him, I suppose, first?... No, no necessity to see him.
Because if so, my child, you will lose him, I warn you. You cannot treat a man of his spirit like that; he will leave you if you do." "I do not want to keep him at arm's length; he is there of his own will. I told you at Montfitchet everything is too late " Then the butler entered the room: "Some one wishes to speak to your ladyship on the telephone, immediately," he said.
"The girls are bent on camping out." A cloud fell over Daisy's sensitive face. "I must telephone to papa that I am all right," she remarked. "Aunt May expected us last night, and if you girls do not want to come, Maud and I will go. We can meet you farther on." "Oh, of course," Cora hurried to say, "we must go on, since we are expected. We can have the camping out to-morrow.
To his left was a grill work with a window marked, "Cashier," and beyond this, several men who were evidently bookkeepers. In front of him was a railing, behind which sat a girl at a telephone switchboard. At the other side of the room, floors opened into what were evidently three private offices. On the first door he saw the name, Mr. Merton; on the second, Mr. Hunt. The third door was blank.
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