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Almost as soon as this important vote had been taken, the meeting adjourned, and the members hurried to their several homes to carry the news. "We'll have to change our name," said Tom Selden to Harry. "We ought to call our company 'The United States Mica and Hetertown Lightning Express Line, or something big like that." "Yes," replied Harry.
"And do you think you can do it?" said Kate, "I should suppose it would be a good deal harder to be Engineer than to be President." "Yes, I suppose it will; but I've studied the matter. I've watched the men putting up new wires at Hetertown, and Mr. Lyons told me all he knew about it. It's easy enough. Very different from building a railroad."
"Who was your letter to, Aunt Matilda?" asked Mrs. Loudon. "I do' know his name, but he works de telegrum at Hetertown. An' I do' min' tellin' you 'bout it, Miss Mary, ef you do' worry dem chillen. De letter was 'bout my money in de telegrum comp'ny. Dat was reel silber money, an' I hain't heerd nor seed nothin' of it sence." When Mrs.
"Now, den," said she; "take dis hyar letter to de man what works de telegrum in Hetertown, and fotch me back an answer." About a week after this letter was written, Kate said to Harry: "You really ought to have Aunt Matilda's roof mended. There are several holes in it. I think her house ought to be made tight and warm before winter; don't you?" "Certainly," said Harry.
When this had been promised, and a message sent to his mother and Kate, Harry hastened to business. He telegraphed to Harvey to transmit the company's messages as fast as he could; a boy would soon be there to take them over to Hetertown. The answer came: What messages? Then Harry suddenly remembered that he had had the messages in the breast-pocket of his coat all the time!
As to the operator on the Akeville side of the creek, Harry intended to fill that position himself. He had been interested in telegraphy for a year or two. He understood the philosophy of the system, and had had the opportunity afforded him by the operator at Hetertown of learning to send messages and to read telegraphic hieroglyphics.
So Uncle Braddock was engaged as telegraph-boy, and Harry having promised him twenty cents to go to Hetertown and to return with any telegrams that were there awaiting transmission to the other side of the creek, the old man set off with his little package, in high good humor with the idea of earning money by no harder work than walking a few miles.
"Can't ye work it a little, Mah'sr Harry!" asked Gregory Montague. "Dat's so!" cried a dozen voices. "Jist let's see her run a little, Mah'sr Harry, please!" Even Kate wanted to see how the things worked. These cases were like small closets, with movable tops, and there was great fear that they would not fit over the tables that had been brought from Hetertown. On the next day, Mr.
Why, he might as well have carried them to Hetertown from Charity's cabin. It would really have been better, for the distance was not so great. Although he laughed, he felt a little humiliated. How Tom Selden, and indeed everybody, would laugh if they knew it! But there was no need to tell everybody, and so when he telegraphed the fact to Harvey, he enjoined secrecy. He knew he could trust Harvey.
"To tell the truth, I didn't think of it either," said Harry; "but we must have something to put our instruments on, and something to sit on while we work them. Mr. Lyons reminded us that we'd have to have them, and we got these in Hetertown. Had to go to three places to get them all, and one's borrowed, anyway. Look out there, you, Bobby! you can't carry a chair.
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