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David Patch proved himself to be invaluable then. As if by magic a long table appeared, and the coils and the tape, and all the various paraphernalia of a properly equipped winding-room marched smoothly into place. Meanwhile three soldiers and one civilian stood ready and eager to be taught, needing only the word of command to begin. "And now we'll tell Keith," said Daniel Burton.
There was no work at the winding-room Saturday afternoons, and it was on Saturday afternoon that Susan found Keith sitting idle-handed in his chair by the window in the living-room. As was her custom she spoke the moment she entered the room but not before she had noted the listless attitude and wistful face of the youth over by the window. "Keith, I've been thinkin'."
He sent for those soldiers he had talked with in Canada, and he took two or three of father's patients, and opened a little winding-room with a good electrical engineer in charge. And, do you know? it was wonderful, the way those poor fellows took hold of that work! Why, they got really skillful in no time, and they learned to do it swiftly, too." "My lan'!" breathed Susan again. "They did.
"Yes; now you must tell Keith," said Miss Dorothy. "To-morrow at nine." "To-morrow at nine," bowed Miss Dorothy. "I'll bring him down and we'll show him." "And I do so hope he'll like it." "Of course, he'll like it!" cried Daniel Burton. "You wait and see." But she did not see. She was not there to see. Promptly at nine o'clock Daniel Burton appeared at the winding-room with Keith.
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