15.A telephone wire, however, loses much of its transmitting power when placed under ground, and it took many years of experimenting before the engineers perfected these subways.
16.Then they would sit on the telephone wire in full view of the bird house, perhaps admiring it, and ready to attack and drive away any other bird which came near.
17.They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machine-gun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires.
18.Then, or perhaps not until she called back again at 8.15, the neutral, muffled voice would come back at her over the telephone wire: " ABC to Case. I repeat. ABC to Case..." And then would follow her instructions.