The Argosy, October 1906 — page 51: what you’re looking at

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a= nee Saco a rages Sanit _- of observation an and prepared for a long, zz lonely. watch. At eight o nce when the September 2s had set and deep shadows hung -over_ e > the | strip, Dick saw his man. emerged’ from the trail, carrying a pole Fe anda small coil of wire on his shoulders ; and walking straight across the-strip to the opposite _ brush, he disappeared. _ In a few moments he again came out eee and, walking directly, to the heavy post, ea which was the object of Dick’s closest 7 ___ attention, he hooked the pole he had car- - < ied over the line. Then he went home. Sith. So. far it was all right. There was ena the leak “and. the connection, but Dick - “= was well aware. that now ‘his work was | Sy Just beg Ww here» was t is s current going? Z meee. Ate fiGae Sante time to -eogenleas this eS question. - All through the long hours of ea the night—in the wildness and _ loneli- of tha heavy brush—with the added — . ZS Gnconitore of a steady rain, he pondered — = over the matter. = With the aid of his pocket flashlight: a a2 ined the end of the line which entered the brush, and found it scien+_ = -_ tifically connected to a screw-post con- eo ~cealed in an old stump. The Oner cable <, he could not find. a 3 There was a creek sioteade and he eS < Ble confident that the cable was led into _ tha t and sunk along its bed. =e hough a layman’s eee youl ae been that this current, oe So Ne ae ine ytaifctcly off his nugget of ey = wanted to = op ice = ee of Pegay busying herself aw. farnsery he was 1), he passed ours: until a. eee tinge 7 in the tops 2 a) 7 Bie pat ie when ie man é a ee him un- He lookin’ wise, d’ye mind!” every hour through the night. Vir rimself with a, pipe and a ie in this town and note anything peculiar. — “hook = sale ahd colt up “the shore a disconnecting the farther end, then “hes disappeared with it in the ‘brush, toward — his shack, and. Dick started at once for = ASS Sweaburg. 25a He was wet, tired, and well-nigh starve: ee ing when he arrived, but a wonderfuls: breakfast put him all right. Then he — ‘did the town; noted the various places where. electric current was used, and — peered into the windows. of the power- house of the big woolen-mill. He made~ out a one - hundred - and - twenty - horse- = BS <= power Corliss.engine, as he judged, with a little dynamo belted on—probably bigs 4 enough, however, to give them all the ~~ light they needed. ee It was not a satisfactory ingpectiong but he was refused admission without a pase ics he. did” not care to. apply. for. z At noon he looked for his old. friend Pat Burke, who ‘worked in this mill, and. took him to dinner. = Pat,” he said, as they lit ‘their cigars, “what have you. on for_ to- =. night?” : “ I’m on fer ahs replied Pat. “Can you keep: Brak all ens ‘ asked Dick. . “Sure I can, if r m not at work!” = “Tt’s this way,’ said Dick thought-_ aa fully. “ I’m down here on a spetial test. = I ou ht to have a.man to help me toe agen § night, but I’d probably not get one now ee if I sent for him. There’s five dollars in _ = it, Pat, if you want to take held?" see at Tm “yer boy, Dick! Sure an’ I’ve | —_— some time, myself, D& like to: i- take up this -profession of ‘juice.’ It’s a ‘nice, easy proposition—just saunterin’ around wid a bit of an instrument, an’ ora. sais ee i ue dd igo ~~ * You won’t have to bother with even an instrument to- -night, Pat. Now here’s a card with the time marked on it. Eight-thirty—nine-thirty—and so on, At ex- oo actly those times watch the electric lights — ae See if they go out, and, if so, for how long. Understand? See “Dead Ga5y bee “Make a note on the*card, Pat, of just what happens. That’s all ‘there Ais _ to do. After three- -thirty you can turn in. = eS = = I'll see you at breakfast. ae —— oe . Q ae “com neo onks Saal =e =< meee Sr Se ee ae