The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-06-22

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hreash as the belt slipped By me. thin
{ ssnear OF silver meonight
hen f headfer as last, my prisoner
s music. and moved away with her
heath upon my lips and the fragrance
the pesee1anate blossoms gathered
Gibraltar upon her breast, it was
only the woman, das ewig weib1iche,
and the dream Of the night was now
a1one and the great white rose
qfmoonlight along heaven, starring all
petals and pulses.M love.
easens s said Caithness TO me
shout 5 o'clock a M, as NE paced the
deck for q few minutes pull at a pipe
The dance was over. nearly everybody
gone below. The stars were paling, q
pink streak Of dawn was widening off
sflere on the horizon line Of water.
There 8 no mme telling what's in that
be1 tfan "a tie tam of acomet. AsI
M ltzed with The beautiful Geatpre 8
elE 4isat there was something concealed
sbetWeen that blue velvet lining ard the
g6afer staf But what? The bones Of
Her grandf father, whose perturbed spirit
ahe VIII rest ON the island of Malta?
Ha hal What7 Hello, there's the Ger
man profassorl Do ypu knnH, be wasn't
Attkedance. xperimentiing probably
The professor drew nearer. Beneath
his hear eyabgows his eyes glovged Like
saspsIrk s g
have bean able to do il, . he said.
adash illuminating his fine features
sss have been at It all night. / have
seen the interior Of tlss captain g locked
! boE He allowed nae to photograph it .
HaH' Caittness and I exclaimed in
{ He same breath and looked at each 9th
But Our eyes mettina startand an
@anazement the next moment, for as we
snrned to shake our congratulations In
40 the fellows hand my foot knocked
against something in the half dark
sm the deck. It was my lady's stxange
ssirdle. a waltz had shaken it from her
,Saist.
@ I believe in one moment my whole
slilan was formulated IN my brain.
Sd Ipicked up The girdle and gave Cath
S1eas an immense look. Neither Of us
fpoke.
81 ssI have an interesting thing here, " I
sad eool1y, knowing that the German
Irofsasr who staid SO much to him.
sasH had not heard the ships brzz Of
Eslk about the belt. VIE yon photo
g Why, certain1y 2 he said courteous
Come with mesto my stateroom
n,w, gentlemen. think the tubes are
ill good working order. /"
Ne followed him down the compan-
ieuWay: He had q large stateroom aft,
but his travelling paraphernalia was all
t1cked away to make room for thu ap-
pratus for Roentgen photography
placed on large table. BE explained
( It to Us with the hurried interest Of the
Se1sthnsiast On clamp support was
tie Crookes tube, CT approximately
spherical shape and the type originally
used by Professor Crookes to chow the
dependence upon the negative pole Of
RADIANT state phenomena. The excita-
ton was furnished by an induction cell.
4he primary Of which was excited b. a
fSe cell storage battery, and the second
ary was taken as giving 300, coo volts
potential, Corresponding roughly, !"
SAYS the professor. to q spark length
cr distance between electrodes Of two
or three inches OF air. - Wires from the
secondary were connected to the ternli-
mails Of the Crookes tubes the negative
wire Il; the upper electrode.
Where is the sensitized plate:" lex
claimed, holding in my hand the girdle
ttat in q magnetic manner bound me to
the lovely woman. And yet there was
eoraething hard and knotty within it.
Love letters?'' said my tormented
brain.
Contained in this ordinary plate
holder, says the professor, answering
my question. 81 believe yet greater
methods will be invented y {The world
had not yet had news cf Edison's de-
velopments. "You will place the cir
die on its slide Of ebonite, gentlemen,
rnGer the Crookes tube. It will nsces-
sitste FIVE to ten minutes exposure.
shall develop the plate or image with
eikonogen. The development will be
slosy. The image does not appear at all
for relatively long time and comes uI
slowly. We want to bring out all there
is in the picture. But therein is the In
terest. The shadowgraph Of the IN
known, as it appears, is something SC
marvellous. "
We waited. The bleak daylight was
brigheening through the porthole.
Caithness said afterward there was q
red spot working on my cheek like my
lady g very own.
Ti,e tnbe was excited for some min