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While she was inserting a plug and turning a crank for Buckville's central switchboard was many years behind the times he unceremoniously lifted the operator's head-set from her coiled hair and fitted it upon his own head. Several times she spun the little crank, breathlessly repealing: "I've just been trying them, but they must have left the receiver off!" "Wait!" he whispered.
He did not know, of course, the part Tusk had played in the schoolhouse drama, or of the fire, or, indeed, anything about him except that he owned a piece of land which Dulany, Buckville's legal hope, was trying to buy for the railroad, and that someone else had said his strength was as great as his intellect was lacking. Brent reined up. "Hello, Potter! What are you doing in there?"
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