And then Elizabeth Eliza agreed that his
prescriptions would probably be so satisfactory that they would
keep his patients well,not too well to do without a doctor, but
needing his recipes.
Agamemnon was delayed, however, in his choice of a profession,
by a desire he had to become a famous inventor. If he could only
invent something important, and get out a patent, he would make
himself known all over the country. If he could get out a patent he
would be set up for life, or at least as long as the patent lasted, and
it would be well to be sure to arrange it to last through his natural
life.
Indeed, he had gone so far as to make his invention. It had been
suggested by their trouble with a key, in their late moving to their
new house. He had studied the matter over a great deal. He looked
it up in the Encyclop?dia, and had spent a day or two in the Public
Library, in reading about Chubb's Lock and other patent locks.
But his plan was more simple. It was this: that all keys should be
made alike !
He wondered it had not been thought of before; but so it was,
Solomon John said, with all inventions, with Christopher
Columbus, and everybody. Nobody knew the invention till it was
invented, and then it looked very simple. With Agamemnon's plan
you need have but one key, that should fit everything! It should be
a medium-sized key, not too large to carry. It ought to answer for
a house door, but you might open a portmanteau with it.
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