The first read like this: CALVIN S.WISE, The People's Drug Store, 28 Broad Street, Brockboro, Mass.: Send package 1,500 units Diphtheritic Serum marked with my name to station.

Hand to Conductor Mills, Cape Cod express.

Train will wait.
Matter life and death.
The second telegram was to Conductor Mills.

It read: Hold train Brockboro to await arrival C.A.Wise.Great personal favor.
Very important.
Both of these dispatches were signed with the magic name, "J.

S.Morgan, M.D." "Well," said the assistant as he rode back to his office, "I don't know whether Wise will get the stuff to the train in time, or whether Mills will wait for him, but at any rate I've done my part.