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I looked despairingly round, but only to see deep water, and the bank so near and yet so far, for it was out of reach. At last my mind was made up. I would get my knees on the penstock again, and then by main force drag him out, at all events into a sitting position, where I could hold him against the post while he recovered sufficiently to walk to the shore.
"No room! Just dinner. I expect to be out of here by night." Mr. Files stabbed the potato with a vicious pen thrust. He knew food capacity when he viewed it; there would be some profit from a lodging, but none from a two-shilling meal served to a man who had compared himself with that open-mouthed saurian. But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
Housings, frames, spiders, all stationary parts were rough, crude and massive; but bearings, shafts, armatures, all moving parts, were of a polished and finished accuracy and balance that promised months and years of trouble-free operation. Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock. He never walked down.
We crossed two or three fields, and then Mercer drew up, panting, and with the natural colour coming back into his face. "We'll walk now," he said, "and go right round, and slip in through the garden. Perhaps we can get in and up to our room without being seen." "Yes, do," I said, looking dolefully at my wet legs, and my jacket all covered with green from the penstock. "Feel better now?"
"'Oh, Miss Penstock, exclaimed I, 'don't think so don't dare to say no for that reason; for I tell you, I shall go away to some other town with Nat if you don't take us; there is no other house here that would do; think how much better it would be for Nat to stay among friends. "'It's lucky I am their guardian, said Aunt Abby, with an unconscious defiance in her tone.
A certain church-warden named Hinkley, having been appointed cashier thereof, robbed the Penstock Imperial Bank of £1,000,000 in bonds, and, fleeing to London, actually joined the detective force at Scotland Yard, and was detailed to find himself, which of course he never did, nor would he ever have been found had he not crossed my path."
That evening it did not hurt her a particle, and concluding that what was good for one foot must be good for two, she put both under the "penstock" till they were almost congealed. In the morning she scarcely could get out of bed, all the pain having settled in her back, but in spite of protests from the family she resumed her journey.
Robert is having a large studio built for him on the north side of the house, with a bed-room and little sitting-room opening out of it. Miss Penstock, too, will always live with us; we shall call her 'housekeeper, to keep her contented, and Patrick is to stay as Nat's attendant.
Before night it was all settled, and Miss Penstock went home two hours before her time, 'so stirred up, somehow, as she said, 'to think of those blessed children's coming to live in my house, I couldn't see to thread a needle. After tea Mr. Maynard came again: Aunt Abby saw him alone. When she came up-stairs she had been crying, but her lips were closed more rigidly than I ever saw them.
For these four rooms we paid Miss Penstock three dollars a month; the rent would have been a dollar a week, but she said it was really worth a dollar a month to her to have people who would not trouble her nor hurt the house; and as Aunt Abby thought so too, I believed her. "My plan was to have Nat keep on at school, and to take in sewing myself, or to work for Miss Penstock.
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