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"That telephone is on the Central, I sup- pose ? " asked Gilbert. . "Yes, sir. " "So that you can communicate to almost any- where?" "Yes, sir. " Gilbert stood looking at the instrument, and the senior clerk waited respectfully. "Wonderfully ingenious invention, sir, " remarked the senior clerk. "Quite in its infancy, too, they tell me. " i86 "I suppose so, " said Gilbert absently. "If you had told people thirty years ago that the time would come when they could speak to each other from London ...to Paris, why, they would have stared like any thing. " "That would have been the least they could do. " "Quite so, sir. And of course they've be- come a great convenience; I don't know what we should do without them now; do you, sir ? " "No, " said Gilbert, " I don't. " Captain Dann's hand fell upon his shoulder. "One moment, " said Captain Dann. "Just step this way, Mr. Gilbert. " They walked to the corridor. " Be very caref ul not to let that little matter of the coming telegram slip out. What passes in a Board Room is of course in the nature of er what I call a Cabinet secret.
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