If they did, there was a chance that it might have arrived.

He decided suddenly to make the trip and see; but first he would develop the exposed negative of the forenoon's work.

He got up with that businesslike air which the Happy Family had already begun to recognize as a signal for quick action, and took off his coat.
"Happy, I wish you and Bud would carry me some water," he said.

"I'll show you where to put it; I'm going to need a lot.

Will you help me wind the film on my patent rack, Andy?
And I'll want that little team hitched to the buckboard so I can go to town after I'm through.