Middletown transcript., 1910-08-20
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BY ARTHUR E. MCFARLAND I'll
BY ARTHUR E. McFARLANE

out running the wiring through!
| James!
] Could you believe itG Could
your Oh, l need hardly say that
Orv insists upon taking all the
blame. There's miles Of piping
altogether. And as soon as the
journal gets hold of that
1t was little wonder that Mrs.
Englehart said nothing about
Togo. And the same feeling that
sent her across to the Havilands'
with her dessert uneaten, sent
her husband outdoors, where he
believed he could think alone.
| AS a matter of fact he re-
mained alone only till Jimpsey
could find him. And then the
whole matter of Togo's glitter
lingly meritorious past and his
darkly perilous present was set
forth for the consideration of the
Englehart supreme court.
But to an outsider it must have
been evident at once that the
supreme court was not giving
the matter its customary close
attention. And by the time the
counsel for the defense had made
his case complete. by telling how
Togo would answer to his whistle,
the advocate began to be con-
scious of that himself.
When he was just about to en-
ter a protest, What? What was
that I? asked Mr.. Englehsrt, sud
denly. What was that you were
saying about his answering to
your whistle ?
Jimpsey went over that part of
it again. And now the supreme
court did give heed to him.
But, pa, said Jimpsey, / told
you about that once before!
Did you, son, did your Well,
I'm very glad you've told me
again. He walked through to the
stable and peered into Togo's
box. Has he been fed yet?
Well, not for quite while-not
for an hour or two. Of course
I'll have to feed him again before
I go to bed.
Good! But suppose ycu post
pone that last feeding for another
hour or two. l think I'd like to
show him over at the Havilands'
And maybe, if you could put him
back into that wire basket thing
he came in. we could take him
along right now.
To Jimpsey' increasing puzzle
menthis father seemed as anxious
to put Togo on exhibition as he
had ever been himself.
An>hour later they were max.
ing part of group that would
have aroused the curiosity of
anybody who happened to OBJ.
serve it. It was encircling a
lantern in the half finished
dynamo room of the new college
power house. 1t consisted, be-
sides the pair Of chums already
mentioned, of MIR. John Malone,
contractor, two of his men, and
an electrician. AS for Jimpsey
Englehart, he was lying face
down on the hoor at the end of a
large iron pipe.
At the same time $50 yards
away, in the pine and plastery
smelling of the new college Ii
brary, there was second lantern
and second group. It was
made up Of very pale young
named Haviland, Of his
young wife and Mrs. Englehart
and another of Mr.. Malone's as.
sistants.
The assistant was kneeling in a {
sortof niche. Between his knees,
in the wire basket thing, was
Togo. In front Of them was a
hole that might have been a rat s
hole upon a planet where rats are
rs big as woodchucks and have i
learned to line their burrows {
with steel tubing. AS it was,
Togo was paying no regard to it !
1T all.
Yetit was that noising, scratch
.ng, none too clean and none too
Savory young ferret which four
people were watching intently.
For one minute-or five-or ten
they had been listening for
And now at last it
had begun to come to them-the
murmur echo of o finger
IEiI1iiAtt 1iiAttif Il T. sounded 90 e Il hnd
come over a telephone from q
thousand miles away,
Togo sat up, thrust his nose
out and looked at that pipe end.