A Young Inventor's Pluck; or, The Mystery of the Willington Legacy

n company with the constable, the young machi

close reader of human nature, and thought he saw a chance of securin

me your invention if you don't turn up at the proper time, an

sked Jack

ive me a half in

tagger

f inte

what I

, si

ffer if you don't wish to," was

have refused. To give up that for which

at would become of he

then, with a sudden thought: "But yo

asked the

." Jack knew Mr. Ben

'll give you

a hun

a cent more. Besides, the th

," put in Jack. "But

you the money to-morr

ce Mr. Benton was a man of his word, the young

all about Mr. Hammerby and

papers were drawn up and signed, and the

once he had to give her the pa

he had finished. "And it may be just as well to have Mr. Benton for a pa

at they were to receive fifty

at horrid agent," she declared, a

iscovered that it had b

out one day sooner than the law allows. Won't he be as

received, and in honor of Jack's release

hem. But then her brother did delight in cutlets, with potatoes and green corn, and somehow the table wouldn't hav

with them. He was delighted to see the young machinist free, bu

intend to do

arrested," replied Jack. "It is the only

," remarked the young man. "He wil

excepting to strike a clue,"

one, Jack announced his intention to do the

dollars in pocket, and we need all the money we can get now. If this

Deb, "but I wouldn't mind

replied Jack taking

back?" she asked a

nds on the job. Don't

keep the supper w

yet a perfec

wife one of these days," said Ja

carcely noticed the surroundings. His mind was busy with the numerous difficulties that had risen

tance of the previous day hard at work on the pat

ought, seeing as how you didn't come this morning, I'd see what I could do myself. But the job's

d haven't the tools," replied the young machinist

new ones which he had brought. Then he sorted out the variou

g is warped," he remarked. "Did the rake pull ha

d squeak

it, and all the oil in th

?" asked the fa

get a hot fire

eturned farmer Farrell, and h

rt, and gave it the proper shape. Then he put the machi

ight now," he sai

ght out one of the horses and hitched him to the machine. Then h

. "You understand your trade and

He did not wish to ask too much, and

three dollars at the

He was a whole-souled man, and was taken by Jack's outspoken

this job at two dollars,"

"Come into the barn; I've found quite a lot of stuff that needs

do my

s busy as a bee, putting the machines in runnin

NG THE MACHINES IN RUNNING ORDER AND

presently. He had intended going reaping, but Jack's

his work, the young machinist narrated the p

of ye! Wonder if I don't know this Mosey," continued the

es

e to work ove

ieve h

o weigh it. Several times, when I was sure it was correct, he reported short, and when I spoke to him about it,

t?" asked Jack, int

nd I lost their trade. But, all the same, he was discharged a month later fo

ned the young machinist; "I don't believe he

the farmer. "If I do I'll w

had done jobs for which he asked five dollars, and farmer Farrell, who knew that h

d the new five-dollar bill tucked safely in his v

shaded for its greater part by la

abandoned several years before, whose disused water-whee

was seldom visited, except by adventurous tourists and by amateur photographers,

m the opposite direction. Judge of his astonishmen

ame instant, and turning rapidly from th

move. But he quickly recovered, and dropping h

ed. "He is larger than I, but I am

inist looked carefully around to see if he could find any trace of the man. Bu

e lower floor of the mill, and found himself in the

Corrigan, springing up from the be

ply. With two men against him, he

you were here, Corrigan,"

but before he could turn to see what it was, he received a crue