The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-16


If you will excuse my saying So" the girl
on you are acting very childishly. 1t is evident
me that you are no criminal yet if the director
police had been in my place he would have arreste
you long ago. and that merely because of your ow
foolish actions"
he map proved nothing" he said at last hall
lngly' and besides both you and the director Wi
now have some difficulty in finding it,"
mat Is further proof of your folly The directo
doesn't need to find it. here to testify that
Cd" 'ne nlap saw the curved line passing throug}
the treasury and saw you destroy what YOU though
was an discriminating piece of evidence 1t would b
much better If you would deal as frankly wifi, ~
as have done with you Then shall give Won II,
best advice 1 can--if my advice will be of any ~
sistance to you"
Yes. and publish It to all the world?'
lt VIII have to be published to all the world :;
any case, for, If leave here without full kpow1edgo
Will simply go to the police office and there tell al
I know!"
Ana II do speak you will still go to the directo;
OF the police and tell him what you have discovered
NO; give you my word that will notr
What guarantee have of that?" asked the OH
man suspiciousIy
No guarantee at all except my word"
viii you promise not to print in your paper wha
tell you?
mo; cannot promise thatw
STILL the newspaper doesn't matter" Antinue,
the scientist The story would be valueless to Won
because no one would believe it. There is no use IN
printing story in a newspaper that will be laughed
at is there? However think you are honest Otn
erwise you would have promised not to print line
of what 1 tell you, and then 1 should have know
you were lying. 1t easy to promise that q,
TO say you would not tell the director Of police.
Thought at first some scientist had you here t.
play the spy on me and learn what l was done
assure you heard nothing about the explosion you
speak OF. yet l was certain it had occurred some
where along that line which 1 drew on the map.
had hoped it was not serious and begun to beIieyc
1t was not The anxiety of the last month has nearl,
driven me insane, and, as you say quite truIy nv
actions have been childish"
The old man in his excitement had risen from his
chair and was now pacing up and down the room
running his fingers distractedly through his Ionc
white hair and talking to himself than to dis
auditor.
Jennie had edged her chair nearer to the door and
had made protest against his rising fearing to- IN
terrupt his flow Of talk and again arouse his sus
piciOns
L have no wish to protect my Inventions have
never taken out patent in my life. What L dis
covered give freely to the world but viii not be
robbed of my reputation as a scientist 1 want M
name to go down to posterity among those Of the
great discoveries You talked just now of going ia
the police and telling them what you knew FDOlis.
creature You could more have gone to the cen
trail police office without my permission or againrt
my will, than you could go to the window and whistle
back those bits Of paper l scattered to the winds
Before you reached the bottom Of the stairs could
have laid Vienna in a mass of ruins. Yes could In
all probability have blown up the entire empire Of
Austria. The truth is that 1 do not know the limit
of my power, dare l test it.
"Oh. this is madman!" thought Jennie as she
edged still nearer to the door The old man paused
In his walk and turned fercely upon her.
You don't believe me?" he said
mo. do not" she answered, the color leaving he
cheeks
The aged scientist gave utterance to q hideous
chuckle He took from Of his numerous shelves
a hammer head without the handle and for mo
ment Jennie thought he going to attack her, but
he merely handed the metal to her and said:
Break that in two Place it between your palms
and grind it to powder
'YOu know that is absurd; cannot do it"
why can't you do it?"
Because it is of STEEL
THAT is reason. Why can't you do it?"
He glared at her f1ercely over his glasses and
she in his wild eye all the enthusiasm of an nm
StructOr enlightening a pupil.
III tell you why you can't do it. because every
minute particle of it is held together by an enormous
force 1t may be heated redhot and beaten ntef tAi
shape and that but still the force hangs on as teps
iously as the grip of giant Now, suppose I4ba
some substance drop Of which, placed On tItbat
piece of iron, would release the force which holes
the particles together What would happen?"
Il don't know" replied Jennie.
"Oh yes y
ly. But you a
take the trouble
be this: The
would be reIea '>
powder like tina , ,,ero
would he nm exnIOsiOn carsal h., +I,o ,,,1,lo !