Before the end of another week Charles Phillips came to Orham.

It was Ruth who told Jed the news.

She came into the windmill shop and, standing beside the bench where he was at work, she said: "Mr.
Winslow, I have something to tell you." Jed put down the pencil and sheet of paper upon which he had been drawing new patterns for the "gull vane" which was to move its wings when the wind blew.

This great invention had not progressed very far toward practical perfection.

Its inventor had been busy with other things and had of late rather lost interest in it.