“Yes, but I want to understand the situation.”
“I have said nothing about what has already happened. I allude to any future happenings. Send me the bundle in the morning.”
“Couldn’t you call for it? That is generally done. It won’t take you any time at all to run down in the car and to-morrow is Saturday and a holiday. With me it is a busy day.”
The editor seemed to be in such real distress that Jack answered:
“I will flash you an answer to-night at ten o’clock by the Morse international.”
The boy and the editor were now in the latter’s sanctum and not in the main office so that there were no hearers to the conversation.
“International, not American?” asked the editor.
“Yes. Every one does not know the International but every local telegrapher knows the American.”
“Yes, but I don’t see why——”
“If some unscrupulous person should send you a message purporting to come from me you would know that it did not if my instructions were not carried out, wouldn’t you?”