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Sure you did n't dream that travelling proposition , George ? '' At that instant George wished he could slay Jim Milton . All day he brooded and grew sullen and ugly . By noon he quit working and went down town . By suppertime he went home to prove to his wife that he was all right . She happened to be coming across from the mill , where she had helped Milton lay the first fire under the boiler ready to touch off , and had seen the first log on the set carriage . It had been agreed that she was to come over at opening time in the morning and start the machinery .