But the instructions are, 'Send no messages
to the United States.' I'm sending an unimportant House of Commons
speech."
"Your wire is free, then? I'll give you a thousand francs if you will
send this one message through," Nevins urges persuasively. "I want to
get the news to my paper. They will pay royally for it."
The operator hesitates. A thousand francs is a tempting offer.
"When will you pay?" he asks.
"I will pay you now, on the very spot."
As he speaks Nevins counts out the bills.
It is twenty minutes of eight by the local clock in the cable office.
The clock indicating New York time registers two-forty P.M.
A glance at the Bank of France notes decides the question in the
operator's mind. He takes the money and transmits the message.
Nevins returns to his room to await the developments of the thirteenth
of October.
BOOK IV.
In Freedom's Name.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE SYNDICATE IN LIQUIDATION.
The crisis has arrived. On the bulletins in front of the leading
newspaper offices in New York crowds congregate. Men discuss the
startling tidings that come from all points of the compass and ask
themselves what the next report will be. Golding's death is the
forerunner of a long list of fatalities.
JAVELIN BULLETIN.
United States Senator Warwick,
of California, was assassinated at
his villa in San Diego.
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