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

me that you are no criminal yet if the dit /
ponce mad been in my place he would have j
you long ago, and that merely because of ii
foolish actions" Yl
The map proved nothing" he said at L. i
lngly' "and, besides. both you and the dire
now have some difficulty in finding it,
That is further proof of your folly. The
doesn't need to find it, am here TO testif
saw the map, saw the curved line passing
the treasury and saw you DESTROY what YOU .
was an discriminating piece of evidence 1t W !
much better if you would deal as frankly u
as have done with you Then shall give
best advice 1 can-f nv advice will no of u'I
sistance to you" "sI
Yes and publish it to all the worIdy
1T will have to be published to ali the
any case. for, If L leave here without fuu kn, II
will simply go to the police office and Their,
1 know" al
ana II L do speak you will still 60 TO the
OF the police and tell him what you have disc
NO. L give you my word that 1 will notr
What guarantee have 1 of that?" asked
man suspiciousIy ~
NO guarantee at all except my Wordr'
VIII you promise not to print in your pap. |
tell your" LAY
w. c1nnOC promise that!'
Stlll, the newspaper doesn't matter" cog
the scientist 1.-THE story would be valuelesss
because no one would believe it. There is n
printing story in a newspaper that will be Fl
at Is there? However. 1 think you are hones II
erWlse you would have promised not to prin
OF what tell you, and then | should have /
you were lying. 1t was as easy to promise |
TO say you would not tell the director of D. Il
thought at first some scientist had sent YOU i
play the spy on me and learn what I was |
assure you heard nothing about the explos II
speak OF, yet l was certain it had occurred |
where along that line which 1 drew on the |
had hoped it was not serious and begun to |
1t was not The anxiety of the last month has, /
driven me insane, and as you say quite trl u
actions have been childish" II
The old man in his excitement had risen f |
chair and was now pacing up and down -. n,
running his fingers dstractedly through ~ /
white hair and talking more to himself thar
auditor III
Jennie had edged her chair nearer to the i
had made no protest against his rising, fearin |
terrupt his flow Of talk and again arouse /
piciOns. i
i have no wish to protect my Inventions /
never taken out patent in my life. Wha, /
covered l give freely to the world, but l viii |
robbed Of my reputation as a scientist. 1 Wi
name to go down to poserity among those II
great discoveries. You talked just now of g, II
the police and telling them what you knew |
creature! You could no more have gone tout II
trail police office without my permission, or II
my WILL than you could go to the window and I'll
back those bits of paper 1 scattered to the NJ
Before you reached the bottom of the stairs II
have laid Vienna in a mass of ruins Yes It |
all probability have blown up the entire en- II
Austria The truth is that do not know tt |
OF my power. dare l test it,"
'Oh. this is mailman" thought Jennie.
edged still nearer to the door. The old man |
in his walk and turned fercely upon her IT
You don't believe me?" he said
No. do not" she answered, the color leav
cheeks.
The aged scientist gave utterance to d
chuckle He took from one of his numerous
hammer head without the handle and tor
ment Jennie thought he was going to attack I
he merely handed the metal to her and said
Break that in two. Place it between your.
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 no reason. Why can't you do it? +
He glared at her 1ercely over his glass;
she saw in his wild eye all the enthusiasm of
structor enlightening a pupil.
I'll tell you why you can't do it. becauss
minute particle of it is held together by an en-
force. 1t may be heated redhot and beaten IN
shape and that but still the force hangs on As
iotsly as the grip of giant Now, Suppose
some substance drop of which, placed e.
piece OF iron, would release the force whiel
the particles together What would happen7
Il don't know" replied Jennie
'Oh. yes. you do" cried the professor i'm,
ly But you are like every other woman-vo, 4
take the trouble to think What would banns,
be this: The force that held the particles +,
would be released. and the hammer woUld
powder Ike that gold you showed me. s,d
would be an explosion caused by the sudden
of the powder, which would probably wrod
room and extinguish both our lives You md
that do you notr'
Eyes. think do"
Well here is something you won't md,
and probably won't believe when you hear II
IS but one force In this world and but ono
of matter. There is only one element vvbic,
basis of everything. All the different sborl
conditions of things that We see are ca,,~is
mere variation of that force in eontunc+io
numbers OF that particle. Am getting bevo,,,
depth?"
Il am afraid you are. professor"
"Of course. 1 know what feeble braj,s, !
erage woman Is possessed of. Still try 70
in your mind. Now. listen to this: l bava