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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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But
their
anxiety
was
not
over.
Now
that
they
had
regained
the
lost
cable
of
1865,
was
it
good
for
any
thing?
It
had
been
lying
more
than
a
year
at
the
bottom
of
the
deep.
What
if
it
should
prove
to
have
been
broken
somewhere
in
the
eleven
hundred
miles
between
the
ship
and
Ireland?
What
if
some
sharp
rock
had
worn
it
away,
or
some
marine
insect
had
eaten
into
its
heart?
If
there
were
but
a
pin's
point,
anywhere
in
its
covering
of
flesh,
the
vital
current
might
escape
through
it
into
the
sea.
Fears
like
these
restrained
their
exultation.
It
was
yet
too
soon
to
proclaim
their
victory.
So,
as
the
cable
was
passed
along
the
deck
to
the
testing
room,
where
the
chief
electrician
was
to
operate
upon
it,
to
see
whether
it
was
alive
or
dead,
it
was
followed
by
an
anxious
group,
who
stood
around
him
as
he
sat
down
at
the
instrument,
watching
his
countenance
as
friends
watch
the
face
of
a
physician,
when
he
feels
the
pulse
of
a
patient
to
see
if
the
heart
is
still
beating.
The
scene
is
thus
described
by
Mr.
Robert
Dudley,
the
artist
of
the
expedition,
whose
spirited
sketches
in
the
London
Illustrated
News
have
made
known
to
the
world
many
incidents
of
this
memorable
voyage:
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