Telegraphist

He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.

But the next stations, Wamphray, and Dinwoodie, were small places, very probably with no night telegraphists.