"We hadn't thought of it, ma'am," said he. "I 'low you don't know much about Scalawag Run," he added.
The young woman tossed her red head.
"When you have thought of it, and made up both your minds," she replied tartly, "you might let me know. It is a matter of some importance."
"Ay, ma'am."
By this time Tommy Lark had connected the telegraph operator's concern with the rare emergency of a message.
"What you so eager t' know for?" he inquired.
"I've a dispatch to send across."
"Not a telegram!"
"It is."
"Somebody in trouble?"