Mr Bandicott was an archaeologist, but
he was also a business man, and he was disposed to use the whole apparatus of
civilisation to announce his discovery to the world. With a good deal of
trouble he got the two chief Scottish newspapers on the telephone, and dictated
to them a summary of his story. He asked them to pass the matter on to
the London press, and he gave them ample references to establish his good
faith. Also he prepared a sheaf of telegrams and cables – to learned
societies in Britain and America, to the great New York of which he was the
principal owner, to the British Museum, to the Secretary of Scotland, and to
friends in the same line of scholarship. Having left instructions that
these messages should be despatched from Inverlarrig at dawn, he went to bed in
a state of profound jubilation and utter fatigue.
From John Macnab (1925) by John Buchan
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