"What does it manufacture?"
"This," said Stover, indicating the appliance. "A combined window closer and alarm clock that also opens the register."
"Let's see it," said Macnooder, all excitement.
The demonstration took place. Macnooder the enthusiast was conquered, but Macnooder the financier remained cold and controlled. He sat down, watched by three pairs of eyes, took from his pocket a pair of spectacles, placed them on his nose and said indifferently:
"Well?"
"What do you think of it?"
"It's a beaut!"
"I say, Doc," said Finnegan, "now, won't every fellow in the school be crying for one, won't be happy till he gets it, and all that sort of thing?"
"Every fellow in the school will have one," said Macnooder carefully, making a distinction which was perceived only by the Tennessee Shad.
"Now, Doc," said Dink, still glowing with his triumph over the Tennessee Shad, "let's talk business."