The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-08

h Sussex on the highland near Beachy head. There is, I remember, a large and lofty barn near the house. Will is in Scotland, but the key is always at my disposal. Why not take the machine down tomorrow and test it in the barn?"
 Nothing could be better"
 "There is train to Eastbourne at 1. |"
 ''I shall be at the station. !"
 "Bring the gear with you, and I shall bring the phlanges, said the mechani- clan, rising. Tomorrow will prove whether we have been following a shadow or whether fortune is at our feet. One o'clock, at the Victoria. He walked swiftly down the stair and was quickly reabsorbed into the flood of comfortless, clammy humanity which ebbed and flowed along the Strand.
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 The morning was bright and spring. like. A pale blue sky arched over Lon don with a few gauzy white clouds drifting lazily across it. At Il o'clock Brown might have been seen entering the patent office with great roll of parchment diagrams and plans under his arm. At 12 he emerged again, smil- ing, and opening his pocketbook he packed away very carefully 8 small slip of official blue paper. At five minutes to his cab rolled into Victoria station. Two giant canvas covered parcels like enormous kites were handed down by the cabmaH from tue top and consigned to the care or a guard. On the platform Perioord was pacing up and down, with long eager step and swinging arms. a tinge of pink upon his sunken and sal low cheeks.
 "All right?" he asked.
 Brown pointed ill answer to his bag gage.
 'I have the motor and the girdle al- ready packed away in the guards van. Be careful, guard, for it is delicate ma- chinery of great value. So Now we can start with an easy conscience. '"
 At Eastbourne the precious motor was carried to four wheeler and the great phlanges hoisted on the top. A long drive took them to the house where the keys were kept, whence they set off across the barren downs. The building which was their destination was com monplace whitewashed struct Ire, with struggling stables and outhouses, stand ing i'll grassy hollow which sloped down from the edge of the chalk cliffs. It was cheerless house even when in use, but now, with its smokeless chim- neys and shuttered windows, 1t looked doubly dreary The owner had planted grove of young larches and frs around it, but the sweeping spray had blighted them, and they hung their withered heads ill melancholy groups. It was q gloomy and forbidding spot.
 But the inventors were ill no mood to be moved by such trifles. The lone- Her the place, the more fitted for their purpose. With the help of the cabman they carried their packages down the footpath and laid them in the darkened dining room. The sun was setting as the distant chatter of wheels told them that they were finally alone
 Pericord had thrown open the shut ters, and the mellow evening light streamed i'll through the discolored windows. Brown drew Q knife from his pocket and cut the pack thread with which the canvas was secured. As the brown covering fell avav f disclosed ty. 1.,.. s.E-.ss HIetal i4i. ..-- Ha leaned carefully against the wall. The giydle, the connecting bands and the motor were then ill turn unpacked. It was dark before all was set out in or der. A lamp was lit, and by its light the two men continued to tighten screws, clinch rivets and make the last preparations for their experiment..
 'That finishes it. said Brown at last, stepping back and surveying the machine