"Jennings, you have been pretty decent to me, so if you'll come along I'll do you a favor."
Jennings looked at Stubbs peculiarly.
"Something up?" he demanded.
"Considerable," returned Stubbs.
"Then I'll go along," said Jennings. "I haven't anything else to do."
He accompanied Stubbs and the two lads into the cable office.
"Now, Jennings," said Stubbs, "I'm not going to tell you what's up until I have filed my dispatch. But you'll have the next chance at the wire."
"Fair enough," said Jennings smiling. "I guess your stuff is not so awfully hot."
"Maybe not," said Stubbs. "Wait."
Briefly he scribbled on a cable blank, and passed the message to the operator. What he wrote was this: