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On Dick's face, at lunch, there was no sign of trouble over the Harvest Group; nor could anybody have guessed that Jere than a report of unfailing earnings Although Adolph Weil had gone on the earlytrain, which advertised that the business which had brought him had been transacted with Dick at soreater company than ever at the table Besides a Mrs Tully, who seemed a stout and elderly society matron, and whom Graham could not leaned a little: a Mr Gulhuss, State Veterinary; a Mr Deacon, a portrait painter of evident note on the Coast; and a Captain Lester, then captain of a Pacific Mail liner, who had sailed skipper for Dick nearly twenty years before and who had helped Dick to his navigation

Theat his watch, when Dick said: "Jereht now You'll have tiested, "andto see it myself, Dick's been so obscure about it"

Sanctioned by Dick's nod, she was ordering machines and saddle horses the next moment

"What is it?" Graham queried, when she had finished

"Oh, one of Dick's stunts He's always after so new This is an invention He swears it will revolutionize fareneral idea of it, but I haven't seen it set up yet It was ready a week ago, but there was so an adjustment"

"There's billions in it if it works," Dick smiled over the table "Billions for the farmers of the world, and perhaps a trifle of royalty for me if it works"

"But what is it?" O'Hay asked "Music in the dairy barns to ive down their milkon his front porch," Dick baffled back "In fact, the labor-elie between soil production and sheer laboratory production of food But wait till you see it Gulhuss, this is where I kill my own business, if it works, for it will do aith the one horse of every ten-acre farmer between here and Jericho"

In ranch machines and on saddle animals, the company was taken a mile beyond the dairy center, where a level field was fenced squarely off and contained, as Dick announced, just precisely ten acres