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chine sends ont and which will pene-
trate stone, iron, wood or any other
substance must unite at focus, and
! have not been able TO bring that focus
| nearer me than something over half a
mile
Last summer | went to an uninhab.
tied part Of Switzerland and there con.
tinuGd my experiments | blew mp at
will rocks and powders on the noun
/ tain sides, the distances varying from
n mile TO half a mile. ! examined the
results of the dsintegration, and when
/ you came in and showed me the gold |
recognized at once that some one had
| discovered the secret have been irving
| TO fathom for the last ten years
thought that perhaps you had come
/ from keely. ! am now convinced that
/ the explosion you speak of in the treas
ury was caused by myself. This ma
chine, which you so recklessly threaten
ed to throw out Of the window, acct
. dcntaly slipped from its support when
/ | was working here some time after
midnight on the 18th placed il i'm
mcdiately as you see it now. where it
throws its rays into midar and is con-
sequently harmless, but | knew IN OK
plosion must have taken place in Wen
ma somewhere within the radius Of half
a mile | drew the pencil semicircle
! that You saw on the map of Vienna,
for in my excitement in placing the
machine upright had not noticed ex-
actly where it had pointed, but | knew
along the line had drawn an explosion
must have occurred and could only
hope that il had not been a serious one.
which il seems it was ! waited and
waited, hardly daring to leave my attic,
hut hearing no news of any disaster /
was torn between the anxiety that.
would naturally come to any humane
man in my position who did not wish
to destroy life-and the fear that, if
nothing had occurred, | had not ac.
tually made the discovery | thought [
had made. You spoke of my actions be-
ing childish, but when realized that |
had myself been the cause of the explo-
sion fear Of criminal prosecution
came over ma. Not that should OBJ
lrct to imprisonment if they would al
low me to continue my experiments,
but that doubtless they would not do,
for the authorities know nothing of SCI
once and care less.
In spite of her initial skopticism,
Jennie found herself gradually coming
to believe in the efficiency of the harm
less looking mechanism of glass and
iron that she saw on the table before
her, and sensation of horror held her
srallbound as she gazed at it, Its awful
possibilities began slowly to develop in
her mind, and She asked breathlessly:
"What wonld happen if you were 10
turn that machine and point it toward
the center Of the earth"
81 told you what would happen. vi
emma would lie In ruins, and possibly
the whole Austrian empire and perhaps
some adjoining countries would become
mass of impalpahle dust. 1t may be
that the world itself would dissolve
cannot tell what the magnitude Of the
result might he, for have not dared to
risk the experiment.
"Oh, thi, is too frightful to think
about she cried. "You must destroy
the machine, professor, and you must
never make another.
"What And give up the hope that
my name will descend to posterityE'
professor Seigfried, when once thi,
machine becomes known to the world
there Will be no postelity for Your name
to descend to. With the present hatred
Of nation against nation, with different