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The wireless was now in commission and the next morning, after having waited until the hour designated for O'Connel's signal and received no message, Bob and his pupils assembled for their first lesson, not in a stuffy room but on the broad, well-shaded veranda of Surfside.
"Let her go up to O'Connel's pitch. It can't do any harm." "It isn't time for him to call, is it?" "Pretty near." "But what good would it do even if we did get his signal?" "We should at least know he had something to say to us." "I should consider that a negative satisfaction," Walter replied. "It would just be an aggravation. However, here she goes!
Two days later O'Connel's first signal came. Bob was at his early morning task of oiling and tightening up his apparatus and cleaning it, and both Dick and Walter were hovering near, watching him and learning all they could concerning the proper care of the equipment.
If precedent were needed for this form of recognition of national services it was to be found in the grant of £50,000 which might, had he been willing, have been double that amount which was made to Grattan by the emancipated Irish House of Commons, but more exact parallels perhaps are to be found in "O'Connel's Rent," which Greville described as "nobly paid and nobly earned," or in the great collection which marked the popular appreciation in Great Britain of Cobden's services in securing the repeal of the Corn Laws.
When Walter and Dick returned to Surfside with their tidings Mr. Crowninshield's satisfaction and delight could hardly be expressed. How he laughed at Burns's interpretation of O'Connel's message! And how Dick laughed when at last the joke was imparted to him! "Well, you two boys have been almighty clever between you," commented the elder man.
It is the message I took down, my son." "We took down," corrected Dick. They both laughed. "O'Connel's coming this afternoon! What do you say to that?" "Great Scott! But what " "He's bringing his wife or daughter," continued Walter with a wicked twinkle in his eye. "What?" exclaimed his bewildered listener. "Oh, this is rich! Rich!" continued His Highness with a paroxysm of laughter.
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