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Down came the duplicate blue-prints without a word of protest or any further inquiry, and before I could reach the inquirer's side and be properly introduced I did not want to interfere too abruptly Mawkum had not only unrolled the elevation and cross-sections, but had handed out a memorandum showing the estimate of cost.
On the Deutschland he slept much of the way across, and by the time Liberty Statue loomed up he could dream of other things than blue-prints of the girl, for instance. She had enough left from the eighty dollars to bring her to New York and to pay for a week's lodging in West Thirty-fourth Street, though how she managed it Mitchell never knew. She was at the dock, of course. He knew she would be.
But time was what he had not. He was tired, very tired from his sleepless nights and hours of daylight strain and meanwhile the days were rushing past. While engaged in these side labors, he had, of course, been working on his draftsmen friends, and more assiduously even than upon his blue-prints.
In closing, the Carnegie man voiced a vague warning: "His name is Dell, and he used to be with one of the Edinburgh concerns, so don't let him know your inside figures. He might spring a leak." A half-hour later Mitchell, his arms full of blue-prints, was in Mr. Dell's office. But the English engineer hesitated; he was very busy; he had numerous obligations.
And it was this ability to handle difficulties that had brought about the decision of the directors of the company to put him in charge, as the man best qualified, at San Mateo, where the situation was unsatisfactory, costly, baffling. Since his arrival a week before he had been consulting with Magney, studying maps and blue-prints, examining the work and analyzing general conditions.
Without giving his friends time to answer the question he blurted out: "Somebody got in here last night and stole our plans!" "Stole our plans!" reiterated Paul and John in the same gasp. "That's it," said Bob, "stole the set of blue-prints we have been working from. What's more, they must have seen the airplane before they got out.
The mechanic had been informed of Bob's experience with the man who had evidently followed him to the grounds during the summer, also of the blue-prints which had been stolen, and now as he observed the similarity in looks between this eavesdropper and the reported shadow of Bob, he became quite excited.
The remark was indiscreet, but then Marie had told him she was French, and any one would have believed her. The next morning the same spirit of adventure that had exiled her from the Berlin hospitals carried her with the blue-prints to the German embassy. There, greatly shocked, they first wrote down her name and address, and then, indignant at her proposition, ordered her out.
Conniston sat frowning moodily, his fingers tapping the roll of blue-prints in his hands. "Isn't there any way," he asked suddenly, swinging upon Garton, "of making a go of this without building that dam?" "No, Greek, there isn't. You see, there isn't any too much water up in the mountains at best. We have to get every drop that the law allows us."
It's a ducky house; he showed me the blue-prints, with the darlingest apartment for himself you ever saw, and a plunge, and a roof gymnasium. It's going to cost, endowment and all, three hundred thousand dollars " "Good heavens!" Mrs. Salisbury said, as one stricken.
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