This was their plan.

One of them established him or herself in the ruined building known as the Dead Church, while the other took up a position in the Abbey workshop.

From these respective points, a distance of about two miles, they tested the machines with results that day by day grew better and clearer, till at length, under these conditions they were almost perfect.
Strange was the experience and great the triumph when at last Morris, seated in the Abbey with his apparatus before him, unconnected with its twin by any visible medium, was able without interruption for a whole morning to converse with Stella established in the Dead Church.
"It is done," he cried in unusual exultation.

"Now, if I die to-morrow it does not matter." Instantly came the answer in Stella's voice.
"I am very happy.

If I do nothing else I have helped a man to fame." Then a hitch arose, the inevitable hitch; it was found that, in certain states of the atmosphere, and sometimes at fixed hours of the day, the sounds coming from the receiver were almost inaudible.