Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

by Ella Cheever Thayer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Sounds from a Distant "C."
II. At the Hotel Norman
III. Visible and Invisible Friends
IV. Neighborly Calls
V. Quimby Bursts Forth in Eloquence
VI. Collapse of the Romance
VII. "Good-By"
VIII. The Feast
IX. Unexpected Visitors
X. The Broken Circuit Reunited
XI. Miss Kling Telegraphically Baffled
XII. Crosses on the Line
XIII. The Wrong Woman
XIV. Quimby Accepts the Situation
XV. One Summer Day
XVI. O. K.

WIRED LOVE.

CHAPTER I.

SOUNDS FROM A DISTANT "C."

-… — .-.. -.

Just a noise, that is all.

But a very significant noise to Miss Nathalie Rogers, or Nattie, as she was usually abbreviated; a noise that caused her to lay aside her book, and jump up hastily, exclaiming, with a gesture of impatience:—

"Somebody always 'calls' me in the middle of every entertaining chapter!"

For that noise, that little clatter, like, and yet too irregular to be the ticking of a clock, expressed to Nattie these four mystic letters:—