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Updated: June 28, 2025
Her practical business-like mind looked with scorn upon day-dreams such day-dreams as came to her then, as she sat with her eyes on the grate. She could not smile at Hester's talk of Rob Vail's wonderful attainments. It touched too deeply. She had thought the same of Jim Baker that winter he took her to the spelling-bees. He had been a rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed boy who had ambitions.
"There is really no use of fishing when the compliments are floating on the surface within your reach," said the young man gallantly. This was all very pleasing to Hester. She had not been accustomed to receiving such compliments or attention and she felt quite grown up and elegant. Robert Vail's gallant manner was of short duration. He looked at Hester again, and grew quite serious.
To my knowledge, no member of the crew so much as passed it on the starboard side, where Vail's and Turner's cabins were situated.
Exactly when this was done has not been recorded, but it was after Vail's association with Morse, and it is quite possible that they worked over the problem together, but there is no written proof of this, whereas the accompanying reproduction of calculations in Morse's handwriting will prove that he gave himself seriously to its consideration.
Vail's cabin that night?" "None. But, as I say, I was ill. I might not have noticed." "Did you leave your cabin that night of August 11 or early morning of the 12th?" "Not that I remember." "The steersman has testified to seeing you, without your coat, in the chart-room, at two o'clock. Were you there?" "I may have been I think not." "Why do you say you 'may have been I think not'?" "I was ill.
Vail's advocates, in loudly claiming for him much more than the evidence shows he was entitled to, have not hesitated to employ gross personal abuse of Morse in their newspaper articles, letters, etc., even down to the present day.
All this Charley saw, while seeing through the ghost and beyond the carving on the rosewood dressing case was quite as visible through the unsubstantial apparition as before. Charley was not ordinarily superstitious, and he quickly reasoned that his excited imagination had confounded the features of Harry Vail's face with the pock-marked visage of the Huckleberry Street Irish woman.
The two worked early and late for many months in a secret room in the iron-works, being forced to fashion every part for themselves. The first machine was a copy of Morse's model, but Vail's native ability as a mechanic and his own ingenuity enabled him to make many improvements.
Monopoly all too likely brings in excessive charges, poor service, and inside speculation; but it was Vail's plan to justify his system by its works. To this end he established a great engineering department which should study all imaginable mechanical improvements, with the results which have been described.
In the course of the work for the Government he had come much in contact with a young man named Theodore N. Vail, who was head of the Government mail service. He had been impressed by Vail's ability and had in turn introduced Vail to the telephone and aroused his enthusiasm in its possibilities.
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