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I don't know whether I can GET sixty dollars out of pa." She was so helpless that Mrs. Smith's blood boiled at the rude brutality of the Colonel, and she stepped forward and faced him. "What is all this about?" she asked. "What is the matter with those fire-extinguishers? Why do you come bothering Miss Sally this way? Why don't you settle it with Mr. Skinner yourself?"
It is a good book. I just sold Mr. Skinner one." He watched the editor's face as the meaning of his words dawned on it, and added: "Miss Briggs has a copy, morocco binding, including among ten thousand and one subjects 'What Constitutes Libel." "Then those fire-extinguishers will be all right, after all?" said the editor. "You want to look out how you trifle with the press.
Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art is a marvelous work, including as it does the chapter on 'Fire Its Traditions How to Make a Fire Without Matches Fire Fighting Fire Extinguishers, How Made, et cetery, containing directions by which man, woman or butcher can convert lung-testers into approved fire-extinguishers at a cost of only twenty-six cents.
He would use the influence you have with the city council and the mayor to have an ordinance passed making YOU put fire-extinguishers in YOUR opera house, and compel YOU to buy them of HIM. But you will not use your huge influence with Mayor Stitz and the city council. You hesitate."
The sailors at work on the machine, with complete disregard of their personal safety, ran for fire-extinguishers, and with the fire burning around the mouth of the open tanks, confined it to the right wings of the machine and to the elevators of the NC-4 standing close by. No one believed that the NC-1 could be made ready in time for the flight twenty-four hours away.
"Well, land's sakes!" exclaimed Miss Sally, "What am I goin' to do with four fire-extinguishers, I'd like to know?" She asked the question as if the Colonel had got her into this thing of the ownership of the fire-extinguishers, and she looked to him to take the responsibility. He was quite willing to accept it. "I've got to think that over," he said.
Miss Sally came to the door when he knocked, and brought him the ax, and he took the opportunity to say a bad word for Skinner, and he was astounded to find that she sympathized with Skinner on his refusal to buy the fire-extinguishers. "I don't wonder at it," she said, "seeing he has put so much money on that opery house already.
I don't want Miss Sally to TAKE back those fire-extinguishers, and I don't want her to be blackmailed into BUYING them back. I want to put her on her guard against T. J. Jones." "This is very kind of you," said Mrs. Smith. "She is a friend of yours, and of Miss Susan's," said the attorney. "That would be reason enough for my doing it."
When the Colonel had laid before the mayor his request for an ordinance compelling all opera house owners in Kilo to install and maintain four nickel-plated fire-extinguishers in each opera house, the mayor beamed on him through his iron-rimmed spectacles. "Ho! Ho-o!" he exclaimed, "it is to make Mister Skinner buy some fire-extinguishers, yes? So shall my city council pass an ordinance, yes? Um!"
"Hewlitt," he said, "when you told Doc about the fire-extinguishers did you tell him they were lung-testers?" The little book agent stared at the editor. "I never told," he exclaimed. "I have never said a word to Doc Weaver, nor to anyone about them. Not a word.
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