The Night Wire

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H. F. Arnold wrote The Night Wire. The speaker says there is something ungodly about these night wire jobs, where you sit up here on the top floor of a skyscraper and listen in to the whispers of a civilization. The speaker says that in the quiet hours between 2 and 4 the receiving operators doze over their sounders and the news comes in.

The speaker says there is, or rather was, only one night operator on the staff, a fellow named John Morgan, who could handle two instruments at once and type the stories on different typewriters at the same time. A quoted report says that the fog has, if possible, grown heavier, seeping through the cracks in the doors, and that residents have left their homes and gathered in the local church, where the priests are holding services of prayer. The speaker calls Chicago on the wire and learns that Wire Two had not been used throughout the evening, and finds that Morgan had been dead for hours.