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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
151
In
this
mood
they
entered
once
more
the
harbor
of
Queenstown.
The
Niagara
was
the
first
to
arrive
and
to
bring
tidings
of
the
great
disaster.
The
Agamemnon
came
in
a
few
days
after.
Knowing
the
fatal
impression
their
report
was
likely
to
produce,
Mr.
Field
hastened
to
London
to
meet
the
Directors.
It
was
high
time.
The
news
had
reached
there
before
him,
and
had
already
produced
its
effect.
Under
its
impression
the
Board
was
called
together.
It
met
in
the
same
room
where,
six
weeks
before,
it
had
discussed
the
prospects
of
the
expedition
with
full
confidence
of
success.
Now
it
met,
as
a
council
of
war
is
summoned
after
a
terrible
defeat,
to
decide
whether
to
surrender
or
to
try
once
more
the
chances
of
battle.
When
the
Directors
came
together,
the
feeling--to
call
it
by
the
mildest
name--was
one
of
extreme
discouragement.
They
looked
blankly
in
each
other's
faces.
With
some,
the
feeling
was
one
almost
of
despair.
Sir
William
Brown,
of
Liverpool,
the
first
Chairman,
wrote,
advising
them
to
sell
the
cable.
Mr.
Brooking,
the
Vice-Chairman,
who
had
given
more
time
to
it
than
any
other
Director,
when
he
saw
that
his
colleagues
were
disposed
to
make
still
another
trial,
left
the
room,
and
the
next
day
sent
in
his
resignation,
determined
to
take
no
further
part
in
an
undertaking
which
had
been
proved
hopeless,
and
to
persist
in
which
seemed
mere
rashness
and
folly.
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