“You?”
“Yes, sir; I have run the Centreport mills for a week at a time.”
“But I want you on the dummy.”
“I will bring you an engineer, then, in an hour. What wages will you give, sir?”
“I will give the same that Wimpleton pays the man he stole from me—eighty dollars a month, and engage him for a year.”
“I will have him here in one hour, sir.”
“But who is he?”
“My father, sir.”
“Oh, ho!”
“Colonel Wimpleton discharged him before daylight this morning.”