I want big things all round, and this is a masterpiece, I
guess. Now, I'll let you hear it if you like. I didn't expect to use it
until to-night at nine o'clock, when, also for the first time, I am to
light the mills by electricity; a thing that's not been attempted yet in
any saw-mill on the Continent. We're going to work night and day for a
couple of months."
"This is all very wonderful. And are you indebted to Mr. Roscoe in these
things too?--Everybody seems to need him here."
"Well," said the mill-owner, laughing, "the whistle is my own. It's the
sort of thing I would propose--to blow my trumpet, as it were; but the
electricity and the first experiments in it I owe to The Padre."
"As I thought," she said, and turned to Roscoe. "I remember," she added,
"that you had an electrical search-light on the 'Porcupine', and that you
were fond of electricity. Do you ever use search-lights here? I should
think they might be of use in your parish. Then, for a change, you could
let the parish turn it upon you, for the sake of contrast and
edification."
For the moment I was exceedingly angry.
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