Many neighbors remained, but Mr. Peterkin hastened into
the house to attend to Mrs. Peterkin.
Elizabeth Eliza took an opportunity to question her father, before
he went in, as to the success of their visit to town.
"We saw all the patent-agents," answered Mr. Peterkin, in a hollow
whisper. "Not one of them will touch the patent, or have anything
to do with it."
Elizabeth Eliza looked at Agamemnon, as he walked silently into
the house. She would not now speak to him of the patent; but she
recalled some words of Solomon John. When they were
discussing the patent he had said that many an inventor had grown
gray before his discovery was acknowledged by the public. Others
might reap the harvest, but it came, perhaps, only when he was
going to his grave.
Elizabeth Eliza looked at Agamemnon reverently, and followed
him silently into the house.
AGAMEMNON'S CAREER. THERE had apparently been some
mistake in Agamemnon's education. He had been to a number of
colleges, indeed, but he had never completed his course in any
one.
He had continually fallen into some difficulty with the authorities.
It was singular, for he was of an inquiring mind, and had always
tried to find out what would be expected of him, but had never hit
upon the right thing.
Solomon John thought the trouble might be in what they called the
elective system, where you were to choose what study you might
take.
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