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Title: Wired Love
A Romance of Dots and Dashes

Author: Ella Cheever Thayer

Release Date: January 18, 2008 [eBook #24353]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WIRED LOVE***

This book was transcribed from the 1880 edition by Andrew Katz.

WIRED LOVE:

A ROMANCE

OF

DOTS AND DASHES

BY

ELLA CHEEVER THAYER.

"The old, old story,"--in a new, new way.

DEDICATION.

DEDICATED
TO
THE MEMORY
OF A DEAR
FRIEND BUT FOR WHOM THIS LITTLE
WORK HAD NEVER BEEN

[Transcriber's Note. The dedication was printed in American Railroad
dialect of Morse. It cannot easily be represented in ASCII as it
requires dashes of different lengths]

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.

WIRED LOVE.

CHAPTER I.

SOUNDS FROM A DISTANT "C."

-... -- .-... -.

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 m