was popular & did have friends for [home?] matters grew
worse. The model now completed and dispatched to Washington
Monday Oct 25 1880
& they I have decided waited in anxiety to see if it would go
through the patent-office. For a day or two the lawyers telegraphed
that they must have Wednesday Oct 27 more money there
was complaint of an infringement & they would have to prove
I went to school this morning and
this afternoon an to-night I played
tag with Flora and they boys nothing g
particular has happened that the patent model did
not [whisper?] with other patents. The money was sent & then there
was a week of suspense. At the end of that time the legal
documents arrived & it was found that a few main points
had received -- -- -- but the main improvement the great
purpose for which the model invention had been discussed had been
refused a patent. It was a terrible blow to the [Stones?]. Mr
Stone had been building for weeks on his expectations from this
direction & even the children had planned what they would
do when the fortune that was to come from the invention
arrived. It had seemed so certain the invention on which this
infringed was something intended for an entirely different
purpose but which made use of the same a similar mechanical contrivance.
That night May dressed to go to Mabel Saunders's party
with a feeling of utter despair the gloom at home was terrible
EN