You can't rely on it.

You take ones like R.O.P.and T.R.R.
pfd.; they go down all the time and you know where you are." As a result of which, Tomlinson would send his instructions.

He did it all from the rotunda in a way of his own that he had evolved with a telegraph clerk who told him the names of brokers, and he dealt thus through brokers whom he never saw.

As a result of this, the sluggish R.O.P.and T.R.R.

would take as sudden a leap into the air as might a mule with a galvanic shock applied to its tail.