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After this was a detailed account of the car , not omitting little Mary Hope 's bouquet of faded roses , which in Bob 's story became `` a wealth of cut blossoms , the tribute of Mr. Napier 's scientific friends . '' What Bob wrote was in type by twelve o'clock . Three hundred words of it were telegraphed to the Chicago evening newspapers . Sharp at six o'clock that evening the Chicago correspondent of the New York World sent advice to his paper that he had a story on the mystery of what Ned Napier was about to do for the government . Word came back at once to send on the story . At ten o'clock the telegraph editor of the World in New York took the account just received to the managing editor of the paper . There was a minute 's consultation , a nod of the head , and at twelve o'clock that night Bob Russell was awakened to respond to a telephone call .