I expected always to hear of the joke being discovered.

The premature death of Mr.Chisholm occurred before I could apprise him of it.

His successors soon, however, followed our example.
I had not failed to notice the growth of the Bessemer process.

If this proved successful I knew that iron was destined to give place to steel; that the Iron Age would pass away and the Steel Age take its place.

My friend, John A.Wright, president of the Freedom Iron Works at Lewiston, Pennsylvania, had visited England purposely to investigate the new process.