ain't cut, too! Now who did that? Bringing us out of our beds at
this hour to look for trouble!"

"I'd like to lay my hands on them, that's all!" said the second
voice. "A good job they didn't carry the wire away -- 'twon't
take us long to repair, and that's one precious good thing!"

"Linemen," said Jack. "But I wonder why they're here? They must
have come a long way. I shouldn't be surprised if they'd ridden
on bicycles. And I never heard of their sending to repair a wire
at night before."

"Listen," said Dick. "Perhaps we will find out."

"Well, now that we've found it, we might as well repair it," said
the first lineman, grumblingly. "All comes of someone trying to
get a message through to Bray and making the manager believe it
was a life and death matter!"

"Harry must have tried to telephone -- that's why they've come,"
said Jack. "I was wondering how they found out about the break.
You see, as a rule, no one would try to ring up anyone in Bray
after seven o'clock or so. And of course, they couldn't tell we
were trying to ring, with the wire cut like that."

"Oh, Jack!" said Dick, suddenly. 'If they're linemen, I believe
they have an instrument with them. Probably we could call to
London from here. Do you think they will let us do that ?"

"That's a good idea. We'll try it, anyway," said Jack. "Come on.