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He leaned back in his swivel-chair, and stared hard at the ceiling. Coolidge made an exclamation of displeasure and got to his feet. "If you don't care to take me seriously " he began.
The only immediate hope of striking a trail apparently lay in his discovery of the strange woman who was impersonating Natalie Coolidge, and learning her object in carrying on such a masquerade.
And collecting books or curios or coins can never be made to take the place of good, downright hard work." "That may be all true," acknowledged Coolidge, "but it has nothing to do with my present trouble. My leisure was not what " He paused, as if he could not bear to discuss the subject of his marital unhappiness. The telephone bell in the outer office rang sharply.
"That this girl is a twin sister to Natalie Coolidge? Why, it is preposterous." "Is it? Damned if I think so. Now look here, West; I don't know just what the Coolidge girl has been told; maybe she never even heard she had a twin sister. If they ever told her that she had, then they must have told her also that the sister died in infancy. Anyhow, that's how it stands on the records.
Burns went away at once, leaving Coolidge in the company of Ellen, and the guest, eager though he was for the professional advice he had come to seek, could not regret the necessity which gave him this hour with a woman who seemed to him very unusual. Charm she possessed in full measure, beauty in no less, but neither of these terms nor both together could wholly describe Ellen Burns.
"What did the last man give you for this insomnia?" was the abrupt question. "How do you know I have been to a succession of men?" demanded Coolidge with a touch of evident irritation. "Because you come to me. We don't look up old friends in the profession until the strangers fail us," was the quick reply. "More hasty conclusions.
Coolidge led the girl into her new home she looked down at her with approving eye and inwardly exclaimed, the conqueror's joy already filling her heart, "She 'll be a success! A tremendous success! The Colonel's wife can do what she pleases now!"
The tungsten lamps first made were very delicate, and it was not until W. D. Coolidge, in the research laboratories of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, invented a process for producing ductile tungsten that they became available for general use. The dynamo and the central power station brought the electric motor into action. The dynamo and the motor do precisely opposite things.
Perhaps it was the influence of Percival Coolidge which accounted for the sudden change in the girl. This explanation seemed probable. The man had in some way regained her confidence, and then, through trickery, had succeeded in poisoning her mind. There was no doubt he would do this, if possible, and the probability was that he had finally discovered a way.
But they did not often speak of it. And he did not even tell them that he was a pioneer scout. Harding and Coolidge he now kept in the pocket of his stove-pipe pantaloons. For Peter Piper was approaching scouthood through the tenderfoot class. Yes, they were all busy showing him. Scout Harris showed him. Oh yes, he showed him.
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