“C. Q.”; or, In the Wireless House
factory - scores - operators - suffocated - stop - Cunard - steamship - Carmania - breaks - turbine - and - is - laid - up - for - repairs - passengers - transferred - to - other - ships - stop - Prince - Rospetti - wins - 300,000 - francs - at - Monte - Carlo - stop.” Then came the stock market.
Micky took it all down religiously. Some of it interested him and some of it did not. Some beggar was always winning huge sums at Monte Carlo, and he was sick of the Bourse and the Stock Exchange. It bored him to death—most of it; there was something so impersonal about it all! He never seemed to pick anything out of the air that meant anything to him. Why could n’t the man in Cornwall give him a hint as to what the Hon. Evelyn was up to, for instance? Nothing ever made his heart beat the slightest bit faster.
He yawned and glanced across at the photograph of the “leggy little girl with the big dog.” In the haze of his pipe-smoke, she seemed to be smiling at him. Then he stiffened in his chair and listened with all his ears, peering feverishly into his coherer as if to verify the faint message coming from so far away.
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