"I can remember everything we said there in the library," Tom
continued. "I'll see Ned tonight on my way home from here, and he
will draw a contract the first thing in the morning."

"You are a smart fellow, Tom!" said Mary, her laughter trilling
sweetly.

"Many thanks, Ma'am! Hope I prove your compliment true. This
two-mile-a-minute stunt--"

"It seems wonderful," breathed Mary.

"It sure will be wonderful if we can build a locomotive that
will do such fancy lacework as that," observed Tom eagerly. "It
will be a great stunt!"

"A wonderful invention, Tom."

"More wonderful than Mr. Bartholomew knows," agreed the young
fellow. "An electric locomotive with both great speed and great
hauling power is what more than one inventor has been aiming at
for two or three decades. Ever since Edison and Westinghouse
began their experiments, in truth."

"Is the locomotive they are using out there a very marvelous
machine?" asked the girl, with added interest.

"No more marvelous than the big electric motors that drag the
trains into New York City, for instance, through the tunnels.