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But I compliment the Comet in discovering what all the eastern papers have missed -- that a stupendous thing is projected and that I have the honor , with my friend , Mr. Hope , to attempt it . '' Then followed an elaborate rewritten version of what had been telegraphed from Chicago concerning Ned . 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 .