"Northup—Pennsylvania!" exclaimed Billy. "Why, that was where the relief train brought us after the wreck—where the injured were left. And a message went from there to Sageville, you say?"
"That's right," assented the operator. "Quite a coincidence."
"Can you tell me who the message was to, and who sent it?" asked Billy eagerly.
The agent shook his head.
"I'm sorry," he said, "but I'm not allowed to give out any information like that."
CHAPTER XV
ON THE PRAIRIES
Billy Chase looked at the two Racer boys, and then back at the telegraph operator.
"Is there any way in which I could get that information?" he asked. "It may be very important to me."
"I'm afraid you can't get it," replied the agent. "In the first place, I only happened to hear the message as it went over my wires, and, though I caught it all, for I was not busy at the time, it would be as much as my job was worth to repeat it."