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The long lean figure erected itself in the chair, and the weight of years seemed to slip from its shoulders. "But I understood you to say that the duties of the executive had devolved upon me, Mr. Kent. You also said I could imagine the result of this singular mistaking of train-orders, and I fancied I could. What was the result?"
And this is literally true, for on that night there is a special wire run into the Orange Clubhouse, and Edison takes the key and sits there until daylight taking the returns, writing them out carefully in that copperplate Western Union hand. He is as careful about his handwriting now as if he were writing out train-orders.
"So nearly that if Bucks and the receiver had reached Gaston last night, our road would now be in the hands of the Plantagoulds under a ninety-nine-year lease." The merest ghost of a smile flitted over the lieutenant-governor's face when he said, with his nearest approach to sarcasm: "How extremely opportune the confusion of train-orders becomes as we go along!
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