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You killed Jim Gibson , '' he screamed , and springing forward sank his fingers and teeth into Hugh 's neck . One day in the month of October , four years after the time of his first motor ride with Clara and Tom , Hugh went on a business trip to the city of Pittsburgh . He left Bidwell in the morning and got to the steel city at noon . At three o'clock his business was finished and he was ready to return . Although he had not yet realized it , Hugh 's career as a successful inventor had received a sharp check . The trick of driving directly at the point , of becoming utterly absorbed in the thing before him , had been lost . He went to Pittsburgh to see about the casting of new parts for the hay-loading machine , but what he did in Pittsburgh was of no importance to the men who would manufacture and sell that worthy , labor-saving tool .