That's all you have to do. Remember you haven't
the right," he added with a ring of command in his voice.
CHAPTER XIII
Hugh first saw Clara Butterworth one day in July when she had been at home
for a month. She came to his shop late one afternoon with her father and a
man who had been employed to manage the new bicycle factory. The three got
out of Tom's buggy and came into the shop to see Hugh's new invention, the
hay-loading apparatus. Tom and the man named Alfred Buckley went to the
rear of the shop, and Hugh was left alone with the woman. She was dressed
in a light summer gown and her cheeks were flushed. Hugh stood by a bench
near an open window and listened while she talked of how much the town had
changed in the three years she had been away. "It is your doing, every one
says that," she declared.
Clara had been waiting for an opportunity to talk to Hugh. She began asking
questions regarding his work and what was to come of it. "When everything
is done by machines, what are people to do?" she asked. She seemed to take
it for granted that the inventor had thought deeply on the subject of
industrial development, a subject on which Kate Chanceller had often talked
during a whole evening. Having heard Hugh spoken of as one who had a great
brain, she wanted to see the brain at work.
Alfred Buckley came often to her father's house and wanted to marry Clara.
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