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John Jago never appeared. The night wore on, and still the absent man failed to return. Miss Meadowcroft volunteered to sit up for him. Naomi eyed her, a little maliciously I must own, as the two women parted for the night. I withdrew to my room; and again I was unable to sleep. When sunrise came, I went out, as before, to breathe the morning air.
Miss Meadowcroft, it should be here added, positively refused to believe that John Jago had ever asked Naomi to be his wife, or had ever threatened her, as I had heard him threaten her, if she refused.
Here he had too many boy friends to let him keep on the job as a youthful telegrapher should. Besides, he had a laboratory in his home and found it too fascinating to take enough sleep. Between too much side work and mischief, young Edison sometimes found himself in trouble. Some of his escapades he has described to his friend and assistant, William H. Meadowcroft.
It has received the endorsement of Thomas A Edison. It is for every person desiring a knowledge of electricity, and is written in the simplest style so that a child can understand the work. It is what its title indicates, the first flight steps in electricity. *Scholars' A B C of Electricity*. By WM.H. MEADOWCROFT. One volume, 12mo, illustrated, cloth, 50 cents.
She was of the kind, indeed, who think better of a man if they believe him to be idle. She dawdled about all day on deck chairs, herself seldom even reading; and she was eager now to drag Hilda into conversation. Hilda resisted; she had found a volume in the library which immensely interested her. "What ARE you reading, Miss Wade?" Lady Meadowcroft cried at last, quite savagely.
So, in spite of Lady Meadowcroft, I was soon winding my way up a steep mountain track, overgrown with creeping Indian weeds, on my road to the still problematical village graced by the residence of the retired gentleman. After two hours' hard climbing we reached it at last. The retired gentleman led the way to a house in a street of the little wooden hamlet.
*The A B C of the X Ray*. By WM.H. MEADOWCROFT. 1 volume, 12mo, cloth and gold, 75 cloth; paper, 50 cents. The first primary work on the subject. A book for the people. The author of "A B C of Electricity," showed clearly in that work his ability to explain a technical subject for the laymen who know nothing of scientific terms.
Neither Ambrose nor Silas was in the breakfast-room when we entered it. After waiting vainly for ten minutes, Mr. Meadowcroft told his daughter to read the prayers. Miss Meadowcroft read, thereupon, in the tone of an injured woman taking the throne of mercy by storm, and insisting on her rights. Breakfast followed; and still the brothers were absent.
Public opinion declared on this occasion that the lost man was the victim of foul play, and held one or both of the brothers Meadowcroft responsible for his disappearance. Later in the day, the reasonableness of this serious view of the case was confirmed in the popular mind by a startling discovery.
I asked, suspiciously. "No, not Ram Das. Very good man Tibetan." I saw at once this was a genuine crisis. All was hastily arranged. I went in and told Hilda and Lady Meadowcroft. Our spoilt child cried a little, of course, at the idea of being enshrined; but on the whole behaved admirably.
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