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In July, feeling entitled to a brief vacation after several years of continuous labor, Edison went with the expedition to Wyoming to observe an eclipse of the sun, and incidentally to test his tasimeter, a delicate instrument devised by him for measuring heat transmitted through immense distances of space. His trip has been already described. He was absent about two months.
Life with Alice was at best a lonesome one, and Sunday, with its simple services in the village church, the singing in the choir, and pleasant nods from all she met, the only break in its monotony. Now during summer vacation time it was worse than ever, and she began counting the days until school opened again.
Then, as the weeks passed, her letters became less frequent, and we, in turn, whirling in the maelstrom of spring examinations, gave to her paradise the tribute of an occasional envious thought and respected her happy silence. When we went home for our summer vacation our first caller, most properly, was Katrina.
Finally Shirley said: "You must know, Miss Allen, I am totally unprepared for exams, and I see no reason why I should face them. I plan to stay home after the Christmas vacation." "Shirley!" exclaimed Jane. "If you ever knew my dad you wouldn't treat him like that," her voice quavered with excitement.
For anybody with money enough to live on, this is a mighty good time to take a vacation." There was a murmur of protest, voicing itself generally in a denial of the possibility for men who wrought with their hands and ate in the sweat of their brows. "I know that," was Tom's rejoinder. "Some of us can't afford to take a lay-off; I can't, for one. And that's why we are here this afternoon.
Perhaps in all the city that summer there was no other person whose daily life was so little changed as hers. Others were driven away by the heat, by temporary weariness, by the need of a vacation and change of scene.
We pay our pastor $5,000 a year the annual eight weeks vacation thrown in and it would not be profitable for us to seriously encourage the attendance of so insignificant a person as yourself.
"Look here, old man, I have a plan, and I want to tell it to you, if you will promise that you will not speak of it to any one except your wife. I know she will keep the secret." "And I guess I can, too," Garton assented. "I keep a good many for my clients, and one more will not overburden me." "I am going to spend my vacation in Rixton," Douglas explained. "What do you think of that?"
So far no arrangements had been made for the vacation, and the brothers were anxious to know "what was in the wind," as Tom expressed it. "Maybe we are to prepare for college," said Dick. "Perhaps we are to go on another trip to Africa?" added Sam. "Or start on a hunt for the North Pole," put in Tom. "That would be just the thing for this hot weather." "I can tell you one thing," went on Dick.
Give that fish to the cook and have it served for Mr. Bartlett and myself. You'll dine with me," he went on. It was an order, not an invitation, but Bartlett understood, and accepted with a bow. A few hours later he and the colonel left the little town where the detective had gone for such a short vacation, and were on their way to Lakeside, which they reached early in the morning.
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