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re to the westThe idea of the telegraph was used in
a primitive fashion hundredsof years be-
fore it became the many-wired, highly-
developed system that it is today. Afri-
can tribes sent messages via drumbeat
over long stretches of jungle. The Amer-
ican Indian found that smoke signals
were an effective means of sending mes-
sages. The navies of the world used col-
ored flags for ship-to-ship communication.
Then, in the first part of the 19th cen-
tury, Samuel Morse discovered that mes-
sages could be sent by electricity, and the
telegraph came into its own.
Getting lines across the country, much
of which was wild and unknown, was a
tough job. The huge granite formations
and the freezing temperature of the high
Sierras presented a formidable obstacle,
and the wire-stringers simply had to do
the best they Gould with what they could
handle. Under the supervision of the in-
domitable Frank Bee, telegraph lines were
strung from pine tree to pine tree across
the mountain ranges of the country. Joke-
sters laughingly, though respectfully, re-
ferred to this arrangement as ''Bee's
Grapevine Line".
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To the casual observer, Alkali was like
all other towns on the Santa Fe trail. Lining
its single dusty street were the conven-
tional unpainted buildings, hitchracks, and
sagging board sidewalks. Yet something
existed in Alkali that set it apart from its
sister trail towns. This "something" was a
mystery which, for weeks, had plagued the-
town's good citizens as well as those indi-
viduals who could not be so classified.
The mystery was why, every evening
soon after sundown, the Englishman, Gareth
Latham, entered his little two-room house,
locked the doors, drew heavy curtains across
the windows, and did not reappear—at least
publicly—until the following morning.
Except for this peculiar way of spending
his evenings, Gareth had tried earnestly to
conform to the rugged pioneer life almost
from the moment he had stepped out of the
westbound stage two months earlier. It could
not have been easy for the younger son of
a duke—for such Gareth proved to be—to
buckle down in levis and heavy work shoes
and earn his living as swamper for mule-
skinner Joe Carney and his jerk-line string.
But as Gareth put it, "There are few, if
any, opportunities for younger sons in Eng-
land. There are many here—for everyone."
In a larger town, Gareth's nightly self-
imposed seclusion would have attracted lit-
tle, or no, attention. But in Alkali, it was a
matter of communal concern—and curiosity.
"It sure buffaloes me," Joe Carney said
one night in the general store, where a dozen
of Alkali's leading male citizens were dis-
cussing the matter.
"We ought to come right out and ask him
what he does," declared Fred Turner.
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"I did," Joe said. "He smiled kinda funny-
like an" didn't answer."
Fred's eyes narrowed suspiciously. "Then
it must be something crooked!" When most ofthe group nodded agreement, he reached for
his hat. "Cm on! Let's go over to Latham's
and settle this mystery once and for all!"
A couple of the men demurred, but the
majority overruled them. And a few minutes
later, Fred Turner was pounding on the door
of Gareth's locked and curtained house.
"Who's there?" came Gareth's voice.
"Some o' your fellow citizens," replied
Fred. "We want to see you—nowl""But that is impossible. If you -will return
in an hour—
"I said NOW!" interrupted Fred. "Andif you don't open the door before I count
five, I'm shootin' off the lock! One—two
three—
" He stopped counting as a key turned
on the other side of the door.
As the door opened, the men outside
gasped in unison. For the Gareth Latham
facing them was an elegant stranger in
swallow-tail suit and white dress shirt 'com-
plete with stiff wing collar and white bow tie.
"Good evening, gentlemen," smiled Gareth,
stepping aside with a gesture of invitation,
"Will you come in""
Incredulously, the men stared into the
room beyond, where two flickering candles
lighted a small supper table set with white
linen and gleaming silver.
Finally, Joe Carney found his voice, "I
don't savvy, Latham."
"I was afraid no one would," said Gareth.
"That's why I locked the door and drew the
curtains."
Fred Turner gulped. "You mean this dudin'
up is ALL you've been doin' in here at night ?"
Gareth nodded.
"But why?" frowned Joe. ,
Gareth's smile widened. "Because, as an
ancient Roman poet wrote, 'Nothing is
stronger than custom.' And since for twenty
years, I've always dressed for dinner . .."
Gareth did not finish. His audience, shame-
faced and sheepish, was melting away into
the night shadows.
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