The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-06
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had never made it. It's up stairs in my
room.
lyon didn't know it was Alice Green. .
ssNo. How shouldIs I did not know
who either of the people was till the
picture was thrown upon the wall.
t.Do you know new--know both Of
them, mean?'i
yes, think do One was Mr.. 49,
Eyes, Elmer, you may as well say it.
1t was Lawrence. -
Elmer could think of nothing to say,
and wisely said nothing. After q brief
pause Alma said slowly, as if talking to
herself:
sit was cruel thing to do
II did not mean TO becruel.n
ooh, my dear cousin, don't think of it
in that way. 1t was Lawrence who was
SO cruel. y
Eyes. 1t was not very gentlemanly;
but perhaps he does not care for--for this
person"
ssHe does. The picture was only con-
f1rmation Of what | had heard before.
I've done with him, y she added, in sort
OF suppressed desperation. "I'm going
to break our engagement this very night.
know It will nearly break my heart, and
father will be very angry; but FL
mer, come nearer; let ipe tell you
about it. I'm afraid of him. He
has such an evil eye, and you
remember the ehimney--the day you
camel thought he would kill you,
he was so angry
Evidently she was in sore trouble Even
her language was marked by doubt and
difficulty.
Advise me, Elmer. Tell me what to
do / hardly know which way to turn,
and I'm SO lonely. Father is busy every
day, and can't talk to him. And Law
rence-I dare not trust him. y
Here she began to cry softly, and hid
her face in her handkerchief, The son of
science was perpIexed. What should ho
do or sayY All this was new TO him. That
a young and pretty girl should appeal to
him with such earnestness Disconnected
him, and he did not know how to act. A
problem in triangulation or knotty ques-
tion'in physics would have charmed him
and braced him up for any work. This
was so new and so peculiar that he said;
"Don't cry, cousin, y and repented 1t at
once as a silly speech.
81 must. It does me good
tsThen l would. =
Thereupon they both laughed heartily
and felt better He recovered his wits at
once.
do you think you really love him?n
The man of science is himself again
mo, don't"
teThen--well, it's hardly my place to
say it.
''Then break the engagement. That's
what you mean intend to do so; but,
Elmer, wish you could be here with me-
It would be impossible. OH I've an
idea
aHave your THERE Iknew you would
help me. You are SO bright, Elmer, and
so ldnd''---
he nipped her enthusiasm in the bud
do you think you could telegraph TO
me from your pocketS'
81 don't know what you mean
ssYou now the letters now perfectly,
and if you had your hand on an armature
you could send OF messages quickly?s
eyes. You know learned the alpha
bet in one day, and it's nearly a week
since you put up that line to my room.
Think how we have talked with 1t al
ready. And you remember the tea table,
when the Lawsons and the Stebbens were
here Didn't answer all your questions
about Minna Lawson while was talking
with her by tapping on the table with a
spoony'
eyes. So far so good but now I'm
going to try most dangerous and difficult
piece of scientific work, and you must help
me. My plan is for you to keep in tele-
graphic communication with me while the
interview goes on. Then, If he is insult
ing or troublesome, you can call me-"
GLOW bright of you, Elmer If Law
renee had been half SO good and kind and
bright--if he knew half as much--I might
have loved him longcr.''
''Wait bit and III get the lines.'
''May l go, toogn
"Oh, yes, come"
The two went softly up the hall stairs,
through the long entry to the l., and into
Elmer's room. They set the lamp on
table, and Elmer dragged forth from the
scientific confusion of the place a col
lection of telegraphic apparatus Of all
kinds.
There's the battery. That III keep
here. There is the recording instrument.
That III keep here also. Now you want
d small armature to open and close the
current. Wait a bitl I'd better make
one.n
Alma sat down on a box, and her new
Lohengrin set to work with shears and
file to make something that would answer
for an armature and still be small enough
to hide in the hand. Cutting off two
small pieces of insulated copper wire, he
bound them together side by side at one
end. The bose ends he separated by
crowding bit of rubber between them,
and then with the file AID his knife lie re-
moved part of the insulating covering
till the bright copper showed at the tips
OF each wire.
"There! You can hide shat in the
pocket of your dress, or hold it in your
hand even. When You wish to close the
ciraait, pinch the wires. and they will
touch each other. When you withdraw
the pressure that rubber will push them
apart"
Alma declared she could do it easily,
and the armature having been connected
with the wires and the battery, they both
prepared to go to the parlor.
Down the stairs they crept, slowly I'M
winding two delicate coils of insulated
wire as they went, and pushing them back
against the wall well out of sight. When
they came to the mats Alma lifted them
up, and Elmer laid the wires down, and
then the mats covered them from sight
Now, you sit here in a comfortable
chair, and hide the wires in the folds Of
your dress. III lead them off over the
carpet behind you, and unless the -
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