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THE DEVIL ON THE DIPSEY.
After a troubled night, Roland Clewe rose early.

He had made up his mind that what Sammy had to communicate was something of a secret, otherwise it would have been telegraphed at once.

For this reason he had not sent him a message asking for immediate and full particulars, but had waited.
Now, however, he felt he could wait no longer; he must know something definite before he saw Margaret.

Not to excite suspicion by telegraphing at untimely hours, he had waited until morning, and as the Dipsey was in about the same longitude as Sardis, and as they kept regular hours on board, without regard to the day and night of the arctic regions, he knew that he would not now be likely to rouse anybody from his slumbers by "calling up" the pole.
Although the telephone had been brought to such wonderful perfection in these days, Roland Clewe had never thought of using it for purposes of communication with the Dipsey.