The cable

THE CABLE
A Novel
BY MARION AMES TAGGART Author of “No Handicap”
BENZIGER BROTHERS
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago BENZIGER BROTHERS Publishers of Benziger’s Magazine 1923
Copyright 1923, by Benziger Brothers Printed in the United States of America
Dedicated ex voto to THE LITTLE WHITE CHURCH of ST. MARY OF THE MOUNT at Mount Pocono
THE CABLE
A GROUP of small boys stood on the corner, looking anxiously down the shaded street. They ranged from eight to twelve years in age; from grimy hands to universal griminess in uncleanliness; from comfortable meagreness to ragged poverty in clothing, while in race they were polyglot, but they were identical in the impatience with which they scanned the sidewalk, vision-length, and found it empty though there were frequent passers-by.
“Gee! What’s the matter wid her?”
“Say! She wouldn’t go th’ udder way?”
“Th’ odder way nothin’! Don’t she know we’re waitin’?”