The meaning of "telegraph to every quarter fox help"

Question

From "The House Sergeon" by Rudyard Kipling:

Despair upon despair, misery upon misery, fear after fear, each causing their distinct and separate woe, packed in upon me for an unrecorded length of time, until at last they blurred together, and I heard a click in my brain like the click in the ear when one descends in a diving bell, and I knew that the pressures were equalised within and without, and that, for the moment, the worst was at an end. But I knew also that at any moment the darkness might come down anew; and while, I dwelt on this speculation precisely as a man torments a raging tooth with his tongue, it ebbed away into the little grey shadow on the brain of its first coming, and once more I heard my brain, which knew what would recur, telegraph to every quarter fox help, release or diversion.

I don't understand the meaning of “telegraph to every quarter fox help, release or diversion.” What does it mean?

Answer 1

I would suggest that "Fox" is a typesetting error in the original publication that has persisted with time.

telegraph to every quarter for help, release or diversion. makes a much more expectable sentence. "telegraph" meaning a call.

In the evolution of communications things have progressed roughly along this line.

Grunt, cry, shout, telegraph, telephone (call), page, tweet.

A possible modern-day equivalent of your sentence, albeit less poetic, might be

Request, from every source, help, relief or something to take my mind off the pain.