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XXXIV The Hut Changes Its Name |
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"Perhaps," he assented; "but you will thank me when you realise my weakness. Another man must be found - quick, deft, secret, yet honourably alive to the importance of the occasion and your rights as a great original thinker and mechanician." "Do you know such a man?" "I don't; but there must be many such among our workmen." "There isn't one; and I haven't time to send to Brooklyn. I reckoned on you." "Can you wait a month?" "No." "A fortnight, then?" "No, not ten days." Oswald looked surprised. He would like to have asked why such precipitation was necessary, but their tone in which this ultimatum was given was of that decisive character which admits of no argument. He, therefore, merely looked his query. But Orlando was not one to answer looks; besides, he had no reply for the same importunate question urged by his own good sense. He knew that he must make the attempt upon which his future rested soon, and without risk of the sapping influence of lengthened suspense and weeks of waiting. He could hold on to those two demons leagued in attack against him, for a definite seven days, but not for an indeterminate time. If he were to be saved from folly, - from himself - events must rush. |
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