Electric engines are so imperfect now that steam ones come cheaper.

The man who finds out how to make the electric engine do what the steam engine now does, and do it cheaper, will make his fortune if he has his wits about him.

Thats what I am driving at." Miss Lind, in spite of her sensible views as to talking shop, was not interested in the least.

"Indeed!" she said.

"How interesting that must be! But how did you find time to become so perfect a musician, and to sing so exquisitely ?" "I picked most of it up when I was a boy.