Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes By Ella Cheever Thayer Ella Cheever Thayer (September 14, 1849 1925) was a playwright and novelist. A former telegraph operator at the Brunswick Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, who used her experience on the telegraph as the basis for a book ("Wired Love, A Romance of Dots and Dashes" was a bestseller for 10 years). She was a playwright, writing "The Lords of Creation" in 1883 as a suffragette (her play is reviewed in the book "On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman's Suffrage Movement" by Bettina Friedl, Published in 1990, ISBN 1-55553-073-7) and it was one of the first suffragette plays. She also wrote "Amber, a Daughter of Bohemia" which was a drama in 5 acts in 1883. She also wrote short stories for magazines including "The Forgotten Past" in Argosy (magazine) (January, 1897). She was a resident of Saugus, Massachusetts. This book published in 1879 mulls what how authentic a romance can be that is mediated over the wire by two telegraph operators. Just a noise, that is all. But a very significant noise to Miss Nathalie Rogers, or Nattie, as shewas usually abbreviated; a noise that caused her to lay aside her book,and jump up hastily, exclaiming, with a gesture of impatience:--"Somebody always 'calls' me in the middle of every entertainingchapter!"For that noise, that little clatter, like, and yet too irregular to bethe ticking of a clock, expressed to Nattie these four mystic letters:--"B m--X n;"which same four mystic letters, interpreted, meant that thename, or, to use the technical word, "call," of the telegraph officeover which she was present sole presiding genius, was "B m," and that "Bm" was wanted by another office on the wire, designated as "X n."A little, out-of-the-way, country office, some fifty miles down theline, was "X n," and, as Nattie signaled in reply to the .