“Again did the doorkeeper stop to think, finally ejaculating, ‘One hundred millions.’
“‘Here is a check for it,’ said Gould.
“‘Wait a minute,’ replied the doorkeeper.
“This conversation occurred about twenty-five years ago and it is evident that Mr. Gould did not ‘wait a minute’ as suggested by the doorkeeper.”
This story was received with a tumult of applause by the entire assemblage, after which the meeting adjourned.
It was understood that the next meeting would be addressed by a number of southern operators, who will relate their telegraphic experience while on Earth.
CHAPTER III.
DIXIE DAY ON PLANET MARS
IT WAS certainly a choice gathering of spirits who flocked together at Telegraphers’ Tabernacle to listen to the doings of the boys from Dixie who were members of this honorable body.
Fred B. Moxon, courtly and affable as of old, called the meeting to order.