Bismarck sent me a telegram regretting the absence of the godmother from the ceremony.

CHAPTER XXV At Westgate 'I've got to go up to town on special business,' said Bruce, one afternoon, after receiving a telegram which he had rather ostentatiously left about, hoping he would be questioned on the subject.

Seven steady business men of this city, four solid capitalists of Boston, eighteen Frenchmen residents of the United States, but doing business nowhere, and a German butcher in the Bowery, have just been added to sundry lunatic asylums, their intellects having become hopelessly deranged from reading the conflicting telegrams about the war in Europe.

Suds got a telegram a couple days later saying that Levine had run into a wild cat and was considerable chawed and would Suds send him a stake to pay the doctor?

I accordingly wrote out a long telegram informing him of my difficulty, and had it taken to the telegraph office for transmission; but the operator, instead of sending it at once as he should have done, showed it to General Bankhead, who tore it up, and instructed the operator not to pay any attention to what I might say, as he was running that post.

I was about to open one of these, when the club porter brought me two telegrams, one of which, he said, had arrived the night before.

As soon as we approached Muriel came forward quickly, handing me a telegram, saying that it had been sent over by one of my uncle's grooms at the moment they were leaving the castle.

" The lad, well pleased with the copper he received as a gratuity, had already gone off, and still the miller, instead of opening the telegram, stood examining the address on it with the distrustful air of a man who does not often receive such communications.

I sent for John Burke, our business manager, and showing him the telegram, told him that I would play the first act, and making a proper excuse to the audience, I would then take the nine o'clock train that same evening for Rochester, leaving him to play out my part.

At the end of a twenty-mile walk on a day of suffocating heat, Duchemin plodded wearily into the Hôtel du Commerce, engaged a room for the night, and was given a telegram from London which rewarded decoding to some such effect as this: "MONK AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEANS GOOD REPUTE

When he turned around, it was the steward who had conducted him below, holding out a telegram.

Would you mind taking this telegram to the War Department, through the park yonder?" He gave Jack an envelope and hurried back into the building as the two lads started with alacrity across the street.

II Von Falkenhayn despatched the following telegram from Constantinople on August 25, 1917, to German General Headquarters: The possibility of a British attack in Syria has had to be taken into consideration from the beginning.

On reaching her lodgings she found a telegram waiting her.

Patrol lenders are authorized to seize telegrams and mail matter, and to arrest individuals, reporting the facts as soon as possible.

Arthur Weldon picked up the telegram which had fluttered from Le Drieux's grasp and deliberately read it.

" With Nogam out of the way, Victor enclosed the telegram in a new envelope and addressed it simply to "Mr. Sturmby hand."

They thought of many things, and meanwhile they broke him in to labour a bit by using him instead of a horse messenger to carry telegrams and notes when extra speed was needed, and he also carried luggage and packing-cases and things of that sort very conveniently in a big net they found for him.

" Allerdyke took the envelope, tore it open, drew out the telegram, and stepped beneath the nearest lamp.

"That lady we were talking about," he said, laying the telegram before Allerdyke, "has just sent me this.

Kindly forward resignation by wire confirming this telegram.

Leading her to the waiting-room, he ordered supper, and put her into the care of the woman of the place, while he went to make inquiries and dispatch the telegram.

"What is itimportant?" The detective, who looked very solemn, drew a letter-case from his pocket, and slowly produced a telegram.

He tore open the telegram first and permitted himself a little start when he saw the signature.

" He thrust the telegram into his pocket and came around to the back of her chair.