* Aylmer had come back to London in the early days of September and was wandering through his house thinking how he would have it done up and how he wouldn't leave it when they were married, when a telephone message summoned him to Knightsbridge.

he asked, and while he was occupied with the glasses the telephone bell rang behind the partition.

The post office was located in one corner and the telephone booth in another, and this latter institution was regarded with much awe by the simple natives.

After a morning of up-stairs and down-stairs and in and out of chambers, Mrs. Kaufman, enveloped in a long-sleeved apron still angular with starch, hung up the telephone receiver in the hall just beneath the staircase and entered her bedroom, sitting down rather heavily beside the open shelf of her desk.

A great shell had cut the minaret in half and had left exposed telephone wires leading direct to army headquarters and to the Turkish gunners' fire control station.

The telephone rang and Patsy answered it.

Perhaps Herr Bethmann-Hollweg could explain why it was impossible to send trunk-messages on Germany's telephone system during the last three days of July, 1914.

The one who was not wounded went out that same morning and spent hours repairing telephone lines under very heavy fire, for which act he won the Military Medal.

Meanwhile she hunted up Dooley's Agency in the telephone book and called them up.

On the paper Dave wrote a name and a telephone number.

" The rules of the telephone company did not permit swearing over the line.

" "Reach them?" responded the distant telephone operator animatedly.

The telephone service is entirely in their hands, and running more smoothly than formerly.

Down-town at the office, Rumson, the assistant district attorney, was on his way to lunch when the telephone-girl halted him.

Chapter 11 War de Luxe "I think," said a colonel of the ordnance department as we came out into the open after a good but a hurried and fly-ridden breakfast"I think," he said in his excellent Saxonized English, "that it would be as well to look at our telephone exchange first of all.

She relinquished the telephone instrument to her mother and stood waiting.

Fog: a telephone pole seen through a windshield.

Several official guests were absent, and every few minutes there came telephone-calls for this or that minister or general, some of whom reappeared, while some did not.

As is well known, it is electric currents and not sound-waves that are transmitted over a telephone circuit.

More than any other, the telephone art is a product of American institutions and reflects the genius of our people.

"Besides," she said, "we have no light, no water, nothing to eat in the house, no telephone to order anything" He said: "I foresaw that you would probably be obliged to remain here, so when I left the telephone office I took the liberty of calling a taxi and visiting the electric light people, the telephone people and the nearest plumber.

" "Oh, did you hear that?" "As a rule, sister dear, unless you are the matron of a deaf and dumb asylum, you must expect those present to hear your end of a telephone conversation.

" The man withdrew, and Mr. Hebblethwaite opened a telephone directory.

Gerald went into the telephone box close by and shut the door with a jerky movement.

All things equal, then, a telephone transmitter will be so much the more potent in proportion as the lines set in motion by the vibrations of the disk and meeting the bobbin wire are greater in number.