Dan, hearing Billy’s voice rising to crescendo, pulled on his boots again and ran down to the kitchen. “You’ll wake the whole house up,” he exclaimed, admonishingly.
“Well, what do you know about this?” Billy demanded.
“About what?”
“Something has happened down to Old John’s——”
He turned and made frantic efforts to get Central again. She said finally: “Don’t answer. I think he’s got the receiver off the hook.”
Billy, at this, repeated as near as he could remember the broken sentences he had heard over the wire.
“Sure it was Bromley?” asked Dan.
“I hope I know his voice, even when he whispers,” replied Billy, with scorn.
“We’d better go down there,” said Dan, slowly. “John is old; something might have happened.”
“I reckon something has happened, all right, all right!” growled Billy, beginning to struggle into his coat.