In another corner he had discovered two ordinary telephone
receivers.
"Connected up with something, too, by George!" he ejaculated.
Evidently some one had tapped the regular telephone wires running
into the house, had run extensions into the little storeroom, and
was prepared to overhear everything that was said either to or by
those in the house.
Further examination disclosed that there were two separate
telephone systems running into Brixton's house. One, with its many
extensions, was used by the household and by the housekeeper; the
other was the private wire which led, ultimately, down into
Brixton's den. No sooner had he discovered it than Kennedy became
intensely interested. For the moment he seemed entirely to forget
the electric-light wires and became absorbed in tracing out the
course of the telephone trunk-line and its extensions. Continued
search rewarded him with the discovery that both the household
line and the private line were connected by hastily improvised
extensions with the two receivers he had discovered in the out-of-
the-way corner of a little dark storeroom.
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