[Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. Reeve]@TWC D-Link bookConstance Dunlap CHAPTER XII 40/46
It is as though you took one of the old pantagraphs, split it in half, and had each half connected only by the telephone wires.
While you write on this transmitter, their receiver records for them what you write.
Look!" "...
of $500,000," it continued to write, "in cash, stocks and bonds, with interest to date, all proceedings against Graeme Mackenzie will be dropped and the indictment quashed. "Marshall Taylor, Pres.
Central Western Trust." "Maxwell Wickham, District Att'y." "Riley Drummond, Detective." "It is even broader than I had hoped," cried Constance in delight. "Does that satisfy you, Graeme ?" "Y-yes," he murmured, not through hesitation, but from the suddenness and surprise of the thing. "Then sign this." She wrote quickly: "In consideration of the dropping of all charges against me, I agree to tell the number and location of the safe deposit box in New York where the stocks and bonds I possess are located and to hand over a key and written order to the same.
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