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Updated: July 20, 2025
"You had no right to go smashing it up this way, and you've got to pay for it, or my name ain't Amos Kanker!" "Oh!" and there was great relief in Tom's voice. "Then we haven't killed any one?" "I don't know what you've done," answered the farmer, and his voice was not a pleasant one. "I'm sure I can't keep track of all your ructions.
'There! said Oscar, thrusting it into Kanker's hands. 'It is open: now look for yourself! Then he turned away, and hid his face in his hands. All of a sudden he heard again Kanker's hateful spluttering laugh. He looked up in astonishment. Kanker was pointing contemptuously to the page. 'No pictures here! he was saying. 'Show me your pictures!
Kanker laughed. Then Oscar grew angry, and in a harsh tone he cried, 'Theeda, come out! or I shall not love you or believe in you any more! The sun had set long ago, and the sky was almost dark; but now, through a break in the clouds, the moon shone down, white and clear, into the crystal vase.
'I believe that this is something that feels like a book, he said at last. 'But I don't believe it is a book until I see it opened; and then I shan't believe it has the pictures you talk about unless I see them, and can put my finger on them; and I don't believe you can open it. 'I can open it! cried Oscar. 'If you can do it, then why don't you? Kanker replied.
It was made clear that they were not in payment of any damages, though Tom admitted he was liable for some, but that Uncle Sam's war securities were only a sort of bail, given to indicate that, some time later, when a jury had passed on the matter, the young inventor would pay Mr. Kanker whatever sum was agreed upon as just.
Kanker said: "You can search the place if you like. I haven't any reason to feel friendly toward you, but I certainly don't want to get into trouble with the Government. Look around all you like."
To Oscar's fancy it took on the likeness of a female form the form of someone whom he knew and loved. She seemed to beckon him to a far-off country, whither Kanker could not come, and where he would be free. 'Yes, I will follow her! Oscar thought; and, in some way, he slipped from where he was, and left the cottage and Kanker behind him, and went down towards the ocean.
'It is you who have done harm to me, replied Kanker, 'by giving me a box of gunpowder to make a fire with. The explosion has cracked my spectacles. However, I bear no malice. What do you keep that jar of sea-water for? 'Ah! that is where Theeda lives, exclaimed Oscar, rising, with some cheerfulness in his face. 'I had forgotten her. 'Theeda? what is Theeda? demanded Kanker.
'Why do I wear spectacles? repeated Kanker; for Oscar had spoken the last sentence aloud. 'To see with, of course! Nobody can see without spectacles; and not only that, but nobody can see with any other spectacles than these I have on. 'Oh, you are mistaken there, exclaimed Oscar; 'for I have never worn spectacles, and I have always been able to see.
I thought maybe Kanker had repented and was going to make amends for all the trouble he caused. "Anyhow, I started off in my machine, and I hadn't got more than to the crossroads when I saw a fellow out tinkering with his auto.
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