The Argosy, October 1906 — page 49: what you’re looking at

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: THE “LEAK IN ee ses eerecophare IS, a dy an pent man—young, haridsome, and _ distin- ‘guished—will frequently céme to. strew fresh” flowers on the tomb. ee ees F “never forget, my. faba 2” Se: _ she will say, “that you wete his- friend, “and that when he: died your hand. was bless you!” were on his lips.” Re ~. Out in that Illinois Silteee eaves: 3 se they: will tell you that that empty grave 4 7 ate ' N ‘SECTION. Tyo. contains the body of a promising: young Bee clasped in’ his, and the words - ‘God | hadn't been for that, we'd a cert’nly — 4 ‘lected him district a Se % Ges z <a THE END. THE LEAK IN SECTION. TWO. a lawyer who died alone in a ee = = : Denver. 3 36 ¥* Sylvester Guse ” name upon the Beadstane: — ~E “© Ves,” they say, “ but folks about ee — always calted him “Silly Goose. Kind — o’ onfort’nit, too. I ’low that fool nick- = name hurt him more’n a little. If it — ? PS = 7 : ae ig Se g Be, Phe theft of an invisible ohare and the ingenious Fachion in which it was located. « ae = SS TR. DICK ENSSLER was not. in to transfer. him to the Tadougac ace = a happy frame of mind. He sat in one chair with his. feet flung ‘ACTOSS- another—his pipe — danglin g from his Se smouth—and_ a book on “ Line Voltage,” 5 X fe! ‘ Pye as SATE re 0 Neu aay t Sb a , VY rhe. M Ue ome "g A —which was forty miles down the line. Dick had pleaded his cause eloquently, but was met with a theory, by Mr. Brain- — . = tree, that the man who got. his’ daughter = ae : which he had been trying to asperaulaiss must first show what was in him; and, as”. a ae _ pushed to one side. yet, he said—still not unkindly—that he-— =< —— In- the first place, promotion” did not had not observed any brilliancy in Dick’s oe = aes keep pace with his ambition. He “had handling of line-work. => ae - - been lineman for the great Suswego He even took occasion to point out that 3 A = Falls Power Transmission Company for™a leak in the line, which had existed = = two years, although he had taken a course for ‘months, had not yet been located. ae of electrical engineering with honor. And, although it was by no means sure- y= 3 = But he had found it necessary to begin that the leak was on Dick’s'section, he = at the bottor n, and, as yet, his feet only was by no means sure that it was*not._ oes ze ~ rested on tKe first rung. Perhaps, after all, it was this leak — = ee Then, there was a girl in the case. which was giving Dick the blues. Soe é == Miss ‘Margaret Braintree had rt- This sixty-mile transmission line was ae pe _ circuited Dick’s heart-strings, and he ee. - felt that they were carrying more voltage. a ae ‘than he could stand much longer. tage | ae that Miss Peggy—they all-called, Ze er “Miss Peggy ’—was throwing in Sete resistance! She believed firmly in a | = ed conductor, and Dick felt that — = - contacts were all right regarding hersel f. _ but her father, the superintendent of the oe ompany, was packing in insulation as =: carefully as though he had forty thou- et ise volts. to” care for—as Dick, indeed, ic eke should deem ‘it Pe =e ar a couderavle lower - ways-a wonderful fascination to him in divided into ten-mile sections, each sec- tion under the care of a lineman. Most— imperative orders had been given to los cate the, leak, but without result. S _ There was a mystery about it, S56. = which kept. Dick—and perhaps the ‘other men—awake nights. As far as the most — searching tests showed, it was not notice- ee able in the daytime, but at night it was 4 very serious. St Of course,* they had searched - for ee tapped wires—for stolen ‘juice,’ as — they put it—but found no illicit connec- =: tion at any point. The next morning Dick Sinlak into the great power-house. There was. al. = this wonderful: plant. ee = ae i ooks.< m Ke) 2