Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

by Ella Cheever Thayer

Overview

Just a noise, that is all. But a very significant noise to Miss Nathalie Rogers, or Nattie, as she was usually abbreviated; a noise that caused her to lay aside her book, and jump up hastily, exclaiming, with a gesture of impatience:— "Somebody always 'calls' me in the middle of every entertaining chapter!" For that noise, that little clatter, like, and yet too irregular to be the ticking of a clock, expressed to Nattie these four mystic letters:— "B m—X n;" which same four mystic letters, interpreted, meant that the name, or, to use the technical word, "call," of the telegraph office over which she was present sole presiding genius, was "B m," and that "B m" was wanted by another office on the wire, designated as "X n." A little, out-of-the-way, country office, some fifty miles down the line, was "X n," and, as Nattie signaled in reply to the "call" her readiness to receive any communications therefrom, ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781300814085
Publisher:	Sai ePublications
Publication date:	12/26/2016
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	143
File size:	344 KB

About the Author

Novelist and playwright Ella C. Thayer was a telegraph operator who used her professional experience as the basis for Wired Love. Her Lords of Creation was one of the first suffragette plays, and she also wrote short stories for magazines.

Table of Contents

I. Sounds from a Distant "C"
II. At the Hotel Norman
III. Visible and Invisible Friends
IV. Neighborly Calls
V. Quimby Bursts Forth in Eloquence
VI. Collapse of the Romance
VII. "Good-By"
VIII. The Feast
IX. Unexpected Visitors
X. The Broken Circuit Reunited
XI. Miss Kling Telegraphically Baffled
XII. Crosses on the Line
XIII. The Wrong Woman
XIV. Quimby Accepts the Situation
XV. One Summer Day
XVI. O. K.