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`` Well , '' said the Superintendent , seating himself , `` it is not often I have a chance to talk with a Prospector , so I will accept your invitation . '' And by the time the talk was done it was too late for Shock to think of visiting his home , and Brown went asleep with the happy expectation of what he called the `` kick-off '' next day . Brown was early astir . He knew that he could not keep Shock so fully employed as to prevent his going home long before ten o'clock , and it was part of his plan that Shock 's first meeting with Helen should take place in his own mother 's house . `` The first thing we must do , '' he announced , `` is to see a tailor . If you are going to address the General Assembly you have got to get proper togs . And anyway , you may as well get a suit before you go West again .