Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 283
ng-point is that talk onthe wire. That is the work of an operator. Now, why is it heard only by me? I wonder!Could it be on the loop? A cutting-off arrange-ment on the station loop? I 11 go and look into that right now, ex-claimed Jack, turning and heading for the station. The platforms and the big… … THERE WAS THE SPUTTER OF A MATCH, AND PEER-ING FORTH JACK MADE OUT— passed in under the roof, and, entering, followedtheir course along the beams toward the tele-graph-room. He had almost reached the parti-tion, and was beginning to think his conclusionperhaps too hastily drawn, when a few feet…
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