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The receiver must then translate the message by reference to the telegraphic dictionary, and write out the words for the person to whom the message was sent. This was all changed by Vail, who invented the "dot-and-dash" alphabet, and modified the mechanical action of the instrument necessary for its use.
"Na, she spak just three words when she handed in the money for her ticket: 'One second-class through." "Would you recognize her voice again if you should hear it?" "Ay, that I should." "How was this young woman dressed?" "She wore a lang, black tweed cloak wi' a hood till it, and a dark vail." A few more questions were asked, but as nothing new was elicited the witness was permitted to retire.
Is there no redemption for us Gentiles in these ends of the earth, and is our hope presumption and impiety? Did that old partition wall survive the shock, that made earth quake, and hid the sun, burst graves and rocks, and rent the temple vail? And did the Gospel only rear it higher to thunder direr perdition from its frowning battlements on all without? No! The God of OUR salvation lives.
I couldn't do nothin'. The boys got hemmed in between the steers an' the wash thet they hedn't no chance to see, either. Vail an' Willis was run down right before our eyes. An' Cairns, who rode a fine hoss, he did some ridin'. I never seen equaled, en' would hev beat the steers if there'd been any room to run in.
But, through a kind Providence, I have been thrown among most attentive, and kind, and skilful friends, who have treated me more like one of their own children than like a stranger. Mrs. Vail has been a perfect mother to me; our good Nancy Shepard can alone compare with her.
"I really am 'Miss Kirby, you know," she explained. "Daddy's only got me and I didn't say a word that wasn't perfectly true. And Mr. Baker, out at Long Farm, always calls me that. Now, I'll have to finish 'phoning." Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Blake were next informed as to the kind of party under way for that afternoon; then came Mrs. Vail, with her Patricia made a break.
In 1888 Theodore Vail set on foot a second series of experiments, to see if a cable could be made that was better suited as a highway for the delicate electric currents of the telephone. A young engineer named John A. Barrett, who had already made his mark as an expert, by finding a way to twist and transpose the wires, was set apart to tackle this problem.
Barneveld of course represented Holland; Maldere, Zeeland; Berk, Utrecht; Hillama, Friesland; Bloat, Overyssel; Koender van Helpen, Groningen; Cornelius Vail Gend, Gelderland. The negotiations began at once. The archdukes had empowered the five envoys to deal in their name and in that of the King of Spain. Philip had authorized the archdukes to take this course by an instrument dated 10th January.
'And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is brought over all nations. 'And the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it. I listened spellbound as he prayed. I heard the phrases familiar to me in my schooldays at Kirkcaple.
The young girl drew back her vail and a face of almost perfect beauty wuz disclosed, but white as death. The big dark eyes wuz full of sorrow and despair, sadder than tears. She simply said: "I loved him he was murdered I have come to denounce his murderers." Her voice wuz low, but the words fell like drops of blood, so vivid, so full were they of the soul of her being.
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