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They were sitting in McGinnis' pleasant office, the s of which overlooked Lake Michigan The old any desk and had about hier theand after a few ly: "When I was a kid of fourteen, labor difficulties ruineda couple of hundred ood deal of the e boy that su tih, I began to think differently

"I began to be sorry for the , aet ahead, just asahead They didn't believe that just because father was the brain of the concern, he should be well-to-do and they poor

"I couldn't find any systeovernment that I was convinced would remove the econoan to think about sources of wealth You can see how my mind fastened first on machinery, then on power, then on quantity and accessibility of power; then solar heat"

McGinnis nodded, then set out of it?"

"All any ," replied Roger "What I areat adventures"

McGinnis smoked for a while and said, "If I were twenty-five instead of seventy, I'd look at it as you do Being seventy I have to say to you, h some day you may work out a practical plant for hot countries, you'll never solve the labor proble as human nature exists we'll have social inequalities But, after all, as long as you contribute so real to the world in the way of a power idea, devil a bit does it er so?" asked the older man

"Not a bit," replied Roger, cheerfully "But the trip has done ot to sell a working plant"

"Right you are! And with the patent situation fully covered Those drawings of yours are full of interesting suggestions for ines Philanthropic of you to show theo"