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But why puzzle any longer over that preposterous telegram ? If my friend Talbert was in any kind of trouble under the sun , there was just one thing that I wanted -- to get to him as quickly as possible . Find when the first train started and arrived -- send a lucid despatch -- no expensive parsimony in telegraphing : ' `` To Cyrus Talbert , Eastridge , Massachusetts : `` I arrived this morning on the Dilatoria and found your telegram here . Expect me on the noon train due at Eastridge five forty-three this afternoon . I hope all will go well . Count on me always . Gerrit Wendell . ''