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"He might, through the leak," said the chief aerostatic officer, who considered that many of his gallant subordinates had lost their lives through Bouchard's inefficiency. "Perhaps Clarissa Eileen has already telepathically wigwagged it to him." To lose your temper at a staff council is most unbecoming. Turcas would have kept his if hit in the back by a fool automobilist.
Admiral Sampson replied: “There is not a Spaniard left in the rifle-pits.” Later General Duffield signalled that his scouts thought reinforcements were marching to the battered old fort, and Admiral Sampson wigwagged him: “There is no Spaniard left there. If any come the Gloucester will take care of them.”
As our car climbed a hill on the other side of which, in the valley, was a bridge, we could not see one of Del Mar's men in hiding at the top. He saw us, however, and immediately wigwagged with his handkerchief to several others down at the bridge where they were attaching a pair of wires to the planking. "Some one coming," muttered one who was evidently a lookout.
The enemy was in sight, and the work would be cut out for every man aboard the superdreadnaught. The cruiser came leaping toward the fleet, her signal flags fluttering messages. A gun boomed on the flagship. Bugles shrilled from every deck of the Kennebunk. Messages were wigwagged from ship to ship. But aboard the Kennebunk there was just one order that interested every one.
Then a match flared, and the darkness rushed out as a candle wick sputtered. Shorty stretched on tiptoe, brought his eye to the level of the bar, and gazed upon the horrent head of Bailey. He sighed thankfully, but watched with interest his strange behaviour. Bailey moved the light across the window from left to right three times, paused, then wigwagged some code out into the night.
Out at the piece of land platted as the Herald Addition, whither people were conveyed in street-cars and carriages during the long afternoon the great band played about the stands erected for the auctioneer, who went from stand to stand, crying off the lots, the precise location of the particular parcel at any moment under the hammer being indicated by the display of a flag, held high by two strong fellows, who lowered the banner and walked to another site in obedience to signals wigwagged by the enthusiastic Captain.
The sociology professor struck a responsive chord in us: for since our earliest years we had wigwagged to each other as Boy Scouts, learned the finger alphabet of the deaf and dumb so that we might maintain communication during school hours, strung a telegraph wire between our two homes, admired Poe's "Gold Bug" together and devised boyish cipher codes in which to send each other postcards when chance separated us.
The steamer took them onward, the intention being to send them back with the next vessel. When ten hours out the engine broke down, the fog settled dense over the sea, and the vessel was adrift and helpless as a log. She could only whistle for assistance, and so far as results were concerned, the captain might as well have wigwagged. Then the Pigeons were thought of.
It must end now, however; but not before I ask you to give my best regards to your kind granddaddy. Don't let the cold winter that is coming, chill your warm affection for Your sincere friend, Donald MacDonald. P.S. I told Mike what you wrote to him, and he wigwagged a message of love back to you with his tail. Big Jerry's Cabin in Webb's Gap, Virginia. Sep't. 20, 1912.
"I see it, too," signaled Tom. "It's that watchman friend of yours. He's coming back to see if we left some of our supper." "He was a hungry looking chap," wigwagged Frank. "I'd like to feed him up a little and put some fat on his ribs once." "It would take a mint of money to buy the grub," Tom's fingers spelled out. "He's what the livery stable owner would call a hard keeper.
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