The Argosy, Vol. XXIV, No. 3 — page 118: what you’re looking at

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502 THE BUNKEL MYSTERY. ‘But some one might have heard you,’’ said the engineer, looking about him, for they were still in one of the streets of the town, and several persons “were in sight. “JT won’t say it again; but that is what came tomy mind when I saw that Dolph was lying to his father.’’ ‘“T cannot believe he did it, for to tell the truth I don’t think he has brains enough to do such a job.’’ ‘Dolph has brains enough. He was smart enough in school, but he wouldn’t apply himself ; and that is the reason he made such a poor show.” ‘‘ Where did he get the powder ?”’ ‘‘Some men have been blastiug rocks for Mr. Barkpool just above the dam, and they had several kegs of powder, which they kept in an old spring house, built of brick, just beyond the mill.’’ ‘“No one but myself and Mr. Barkpool knew about the opening under the dam, so far as I know.”’ , ‘JT don’t know that Dolph did it, and I only mentioned what came into my head while I was in the house.’’ ‘“Don’t mention it again, Andy. If it is so, let his father find it out for himself,’’ said the machinist. ‘Dolph had a row with his father when I was in the lot, and I heard a part of it. He wanted the money to buy a steamer to put on the lake ; and that was an idea of mine in connection with the coal question.”’ ‘‘Tet them settle their own troubles,’’ said the engineer, as they reached the house where Mrs. Lamb had called, and was waiting for them. But they found that she had been tired of waiting, and had gone home. with a neighbor who was going that way. It was hardly more than a quar- ter of a mile to the cottage, and the subject of Dolph’s agency in blowing up the dam was not renewed, for Andy took occasion to, inform his father in re- gard to his plan for the transportation of coal, freight, and passengers from the north end of the lake. ‘‘T should say that the plan is a very good one, and I may mention it to Mr. Singerlay, if we get along well together. Coal is wanted now, for neither mill has taken its stock for the summer; but there is no steamer on the lake, so that nothing can be done about it at present,’’ said Mr. Lamb, as they arrived at the cottage. ‘‘I am not in condition to do anything about it, and don’t know how we could get a steamer into this lake if Iwere. Let the matter rest till the rich men take hold of it.’’ As soon as the machinist opened the back door of the cottage, his wife confronted him. She seemed to be excited about something, and shook her head as she raised her hand, as if to impose silence upon her husband and son. ‘“Mr, Barkpool is in the front room, and he has been waiting half an hour for you,’’ said Mrs. Lamb, in a whisper, as though she feared some ter- rible consequences must attend the visit of the Onongo magnate. ‘““T am not afraid of him, Sarah,’’ said the engineer. ‘‘ You need not whisper ; talk out loud, and say just what you think.”’ “Don’t keep him waiting any longer, for he acts as though he was sitting Eomichbooks 3