The Argosy, October 1906 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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Ta rapids, over the brink of the falls. Here | the oo a ue oo oe a ee e stant later” eat etttocndons | power was a dozen big industries. It was grown- up = Steryland to Dick, but-a stern voice now came from the presiding genie: ee oe What’s this, Enssler? ren’ t you. going out to- ae na a oi 3 you first, Mr. Se Sines sections for a week, so. that we 2 -can check each other’s work.” — aZ ieee superintendent. “Tt ought tor lead to zs something. Every post and every. con-. ae _<Aictor must be examined—look after the cee Buy -lines, also. This must not go on = _ any longer. The manager is getting sar- a = Slag over it.” : So Dick, who had always inspected mm ae = ee power-plant, went to Section Two, pré Be pst pared for’ a week of very toilsome and ee very lonesome WOrk. 2229 2 aa _ This entire © stretch ran ‘through a “sparsely inhabited country; | S aithy and overgrown with thick un- Ss _-derbrush — and second-growth — timber. The right of way, one hundred feet wide, _ country in this section. > ‘tittle gleam of light, and incidentally ex- 2 “had descended “from a pole, after a care- erases fyl but futile examination of the heavy tached; and had really started for the next, when he took snother glance over = his shoulder, upward. , ~ The glint of sunshine was upon the big ~ copper wire, but close to the pole it Struck him as being much brighter than -He walked to the other side and” ‘concluded that he was mistaken. But another glance from Ais ee a of | -- view decided him. - ___He again sturdily drove his clei g- ~ spikes j into the heavy post, and in a few Ses moments was up examining the wire. was bright on one side, and on the — Be Beans Ree say SEE. eove -roated- the Sfiione t “sixty miles away, running street- cars and = “TPs a good idea, Enssler, ” said tne -him was the “Sweaburg highway. some one was. stealing. the: © fice” eae __ night. “But who? Two.milés north of © es One. = mile south was the turbulent, tortuous — = rocky, — _ immediately under the heavy line-wire, had been ‘scrupulously cleared, but this narrow Strip was almost the only open — ‘It was the third day when Dick got a citement, in this monotonous job. He ~ conductors, to which the line- -wire was at- It Nyt ano top. ee on it. Coming down, soe aud iin ful, he now observed that _a slight -foot-— ed ‘trail led from the post into the thick 3 brush—not only te one side, but also to ee the other. This trail did not go straight | = é across -the open space, but formed. ge Sy angle at the post. = as = Following it to the north Sid = the — : clearing, he sa that it led ses yi = _ There was, no doubt now, in Dick's ce -* a —— ae se 4 ~ " Suswego River. Four miles . down the | _ Yiver was the tow. £ Sweaburg; anc he- 3 knew of no one in 1 1is large section 1 vho = used electricity—nearer than that. town, Of course he could go back to Suswego Sor. Falls‘and report-what he had found, but = - Section One, which was next to ‘the | if*came to him now that this- A his. Ss If he could find oat cer 9 Jee : chance! that “ . ‘there eee a cre tin ES ee His handsome eyes flashed, antl: his ~ = heart beat rapidly, as he somehow got — Miss Peggy mixed up in “the pee But he soon came to his senses and = started on the job—the first really ; apie = esting one that had fallen to-him. — Ee: followed the faint trail thre ho the brush, advancing" cautiously and = “noiselessly, -He had - a — eet _the-importance of concealing = ments—even his presence—if 1 : avoid giving oe to his_ “prot prey. oa 2 =e. After about two indeed yeas 0 <a slow work, he uae the Sota of an as a SS eS nel : ing : splitting an old*log.. There was ade _patched-up, one-roomed shack, tusty-looking hens, and the w of the bie ee Le pa and Sek ness. : _. ‘Fhere was no “current ‘use i fea & that was sure. And yet, ee yas proba < es ‘nosley as — ca me