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Rh them. Note what shipment they make—how many cases they purchase to place the batteries in, and all that. I will give you full instructions before you start. You can either apply to them for a position in the shipping department, or watch them from the outside."

"And how long do you wish me to remain there?"

"Until I tell you to come away. You can send a report to me every day, or as often as you think necessary. You need not hurry yourself in the affair. Matters have gone wrong so long, that a month or so more won't hurt much."

They talked the matter over for some time longer, and it was finally decided that Franklin should take the first train for Chicago, on the following Monday morning. In the meantime he was to have the balance of the week, in which to prepare for the trip.

"Of course, Mr. Brice was to pay all the expenses of the trip. In addition to this, he promised Franklin a weekly salary of fifteen dollars, with a corresponding raise at the electrical fan works when he came back.

"This is a strange kind of luck, thought the young electrician, as he left the speculator's house just as the clock was striking ten. "Here I am to go to Chicago as a sort of spy, and I am to have a raise in salary, and all of my expenses paid."