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"Of course you have," said randfather, "but

solid steel behind wood is safe I tested it carefully before

I left"

He laughed and clapped his knees, and I laughed with

hi's

notes, and that's so"

"No; I didn't even find that Donovan deserves the

credit But how did you ever co inally a trench for natural-gas pipes

There was once a large pu trunkoff across

country to supply the toest of here The gas was

exhausted, and the pipes were taken up before I began

to build I should never have thought of that tunnel in

the world if the trench hadn't suggested it I merely

deepened and widened it a little and plastered it with

cheap cement as far as the chapel, and that little roo's notes had once been the

cellar of a house built for the superintendent of the gas

plant I had never any idea that I should use that passage

as ainto my own house, but Marian

met me at the station, told h the chapel into the

cellar, and through the hidden stairway that winds

around the chimney from that roohost?" I deypt?"