The things we do!

... Principle of
the mechanism is as follows:..."
"You don't mean to say it's your invention?"
"Yes, it is."
"And the Captain is trying to steal it? Why, this'll be a pretty case, a
mighty pretty case. Leave it to me. Did any one see you working on the
thing?"
"Yes, all his people on the place did."
"Lord save me if it's not the stiffest bit of business I've heard for a
long time. Walk off with another man's invention! And the money,
too ... why, it might bring you in a million!"
I was obliged to confess I could not understand the Captain.
"Don't you? Haha, but I do! I've not been Lensmand all this time far
nothing. No; I've had my suspicions that he wasn't so rich as he
pretended. Well, I'll send him a bit of a letter from me, just a line or
so--what do you say to that? Hahaha! You leave it to me."
But at this I began to feel uneasy. The Lensmand was too violent all at
once; it might well be that the Captain was not to blame in the matter at
all, and that the newspaper man had made the mistake himself.


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