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know where the stations are to be, spot them, buy lots; there's heaps of  
money in it. We wouldn't engineer long."  
"When do you go?" was Philip's next question, after some moments of  
silence.  
"To-morrow. Is that too soon?"  
"No, its not too soon. I've been ready to go anywhere for six months.  
The fact is, Henry, that I'm about tired of trying to force myself into  
things, and am quite willing to try floating with the stream for a while,  
and see where I will land. This seems like a providential call; it's  
sudden enough."  
The two young men who were by this time full of the adventure, went down  
to the Wall street office of Henry's uncle and had a talk with that wily  
operator. The uncle knew Philip very well, and was pleased with his  
frank enthusiasm, and willing enough to give him a trial in the western  
venture. It was settled therefore, in the prompt way in which things are  
settled in New York, that they would start with the rest of the company  
next morning for the west.  
On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and  
suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and  
probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed  
anywhere.  
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