The Argosy, October 1906 — page 54: what you’re looking at

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: tile spread over bic face. “Enssler,” he said, “you. ee to _have-a rest and some ‘sleep, at once, but I’ve got to ask you to stick it.out for a _ ___ few hours longer. Go up-and take care 4 = of this man through the day, and at five stm -@’clock be back here for instructions. In ae a the meantime keep the matterastrictly oe et. ag “All right, sir!” replied Dick cheer- fully, and once more he started up- the. Bis road for Midger’s ‘clearing, getting a down, we'll divide this fifty, dye. moind ?- = BS very welcome lift, ina farm team, until ie iv he had to enter the woods. : a - He found Pat plage cards with the “o 2 ES --. “He can play _his ad all Fisht’ ae cata = ‘the irrepressible Irishman, Se kk had. I was just goin’ ter stake himself _ 2 ferninst all he’s got in his clothes. I’m - thinkin’ yer just in time fo ‘Save yer pris- 7 When. the Benet and ‘the superin- put I hev. tendent parted. from Dick that morning, ter deal fer him—an’ in spite of that he’s . Mr. Braintree’ immec cleaned me out of six dollars—ev’s ry ¢int was a short cfrcuit—or blown-out -which he had overlooked. ~~ SS = Heart-sick and -wearied “Eimost- 16 ae fainting, he sought out Pat—and- Midger — = was released and put ashore. — Se SEE Be* up one of these days,” Sad See Pat cheerily,- ‘and win back | that Six: . : dollars, Luke! ” = = —— Then, as the man dnanpencd in re = woods, Pat turned to his friend. . — == 5 “ What th’ divil ails yer, Dick? If ~enythin’ S gone wrong an’ ye git turned — Sure, I think I ought t ter divide it eny: = how!” ee ee : = the Falls, while — ‘Mr. Beatty sauntered > across the town, to the office of. the Sweaburg Light and Power Company; — and, sending in his cord, ase to see oer, Dick!” the manager. ——— = >: Se ee 2 guess we'll get down to the boat, That gentleman Se him with an pHs - Pat. ‘I’ve got to be in Sweaburg again. -assumption of hearty cordiality,. and, af-— So _ at five o’clock for instructions.” _—-_~_—_—stter the usual greetings, Beatty said: = a “ That'll suit me, an’ I guess it'll suit ‘“‘ I_ ran down to see if you feel like Ss aoe > Mr. Midger. Hes feelin’ pretty stiff. ~ taking up that contract we aiaeeds a year a -Come on, Midger ! We'll go down an’ ago, for power.” » —— ‘ ‘Imspict. th? beauties of the Suswego.” = Mr. Settle clasped his hangls behind his. > - _~ Pat put his friend ashore about a-mile head and leaned back in his chair. = above the town, in time for him to keep “No!” he —replied— indifferently. . _ his appointment with the manager. At “ We’ TE doing very well. Our gue = = = the hotel he found that both Beatty 1S giving us what we want, at present.” a and Braintree had returned to the Falls, “Don’t have any trouble. with “your — ae _ but the clerk handed him a letter. > lights at night, eh?” eee = = = = _ As he read it his spirits fell, and he Settle glanced up sharply. = ae Sere ___ dropped into a chair, feeling that all “No! Of course the dynamo hasn’t oe — - the light had gone out of his life. been built yet that doesn’t Make a littley = Ss <— Release Midger at once, and hand | =P now a5 then, — re ees RES - oe toes the enclosed check to Mr. Burke | for _ YY well. = 2 ae = a = his services, at the same time impress-_ ~ “Hemp!” = Seo ing upon him our desire for secrecy as to this day’s work. Then Teturn to the - Falls without delay. Dick olanced at the hed Bie ac - Jars—and laughed ironically, as he ~ -. thought that Pat had made:much more : Be ~_ gut of the adventure than he would get. Of course > there was a blunder. Cer- tainly there would have been no order for _ Midger’s release unless things had some- s — how got balled up. The clean chain of — ridence which he had been patting him- self about was saree somewhere. There “T heard ble last “ight. = = = = = Then he leaned forward and is ae ae keenly at *Settle. SS “Isn’t it rather remarkable, Mr. S tle, that those lights went out at. : thirty—and again at nine- tTiety on every hour through the night? _— Settle dropped his heads 4 m his head and ‘Srasped: the arm chair. — —— “What aS you eee 2 = “Tye heard note of tip