The creek isn't up often enough to make that pay." "But what can we do ?" asked Harry.

"You surely don't think we're going to give up this telegraph line just as it begins to work, and after all the money that's been spent on it, and the trouble we've had ?" "No, I don't think you are the kind of fellows to give up a thing so soon, and we don't want you to give it up, for it's been a great deal of use to us already.

What I think you ought to do is to run your line from the other side of the creek to Hetertown.

Then you'd have no trouble at all.

When the creek was up you could go down and work this end, and an arrangement could easily be made to have the operator at Hetertown work the other end, and then it would be all plain sailing.