The daughter of the general manager of the telegraph company becomes interested in telegraphy and calls at the office every day to get her lesson in the art. Morton, the operator, who teaches her, loves her from the first and this love ...See moreThe daughter of the general manager of the telegraph company becomes interested in telegraphy and calls at the office every day to get her lesson in the art. Morton, the operator, who teaches her, loves her from the first and this love soon begets an answering emotion in the girl's breast. In response to an invitation from his sweetheart Morton goes to her father's office to meet her and accompanies them to dinner. What is his surprise to find the office empty! He doesn't know that within the great safe vault behind the massive door closed and locked by a careless employee, is the General Manager and his daughter, suffocating in the rapidly diminishing air; nevertheless he learns the awful secret, and how he saves them from a frightful death by his sweetheart's knowledge of telegraphy, provides a dramatic situation seldom if ever equaled in motography. Written by
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