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Updated: May 20, 2025
Here Mawkum strolled into his room and began overhauling the contents of a rack of drawings piled one on top of the other like cordwood, labelled: "Screw Pile Structures." The next morning there came a timid knock at Mawkum's door the knock of a child with matches to sell, or of one of those dear sisters who collect for the poor.
Next came a shirt-front soiled and crumpled, and then the rest of him in a suit of bombazine. "You designed a lighthouse some months ago for Mr. Garlicho, of San Juan," he blurted out with hardly an accent. "I arrived this morning by the Tampico. My name is Carlos Onativia." And he laid a thin, elongated piece of cardboard on Mawkum's desk.
One lovely spring morning one of those warm mornings when every window and door is wide open to get the breeze from Sandy Hook and beyond another visitor stepped into Mawkum's room. He brought no letters of introduction, nor did he confine himself to his mother tongue, although his nationality was as apparent as that of his predecessor.
"She's loaded pretty deep. Hides and tallow, I guess. 'Bout time we heard from that Moccador Lighthouse, isn't it? Lawton's last letter said we could look for his friend in a month about due now. Wish he'd come." And he yawned wearily. Mawkum's yawn indicated the state of his mind.
He placed his fat hand on his vest, crooked his back, and without the slightest allusion to the fact that the original and only Grandioso occupied the adjoining room, motioned the visitor to a seat and opened the letter. I thought now it was about time I should assert my rights. Pushing back my chair, I walked rapidly through my own and Mawkum's room and held out my hand.
Little episodes like this add a touch of gayety to the hours spent in the top of the high building. Mawkum's yawn over it is generally in three sections, but can sometimes be curtailed I interrupted hurriedly with: "What sort of a structure is it?" I knew, but I wanted some other employment for his mouth.
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