The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-18
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have given Is do not Sec" said. chow
/ IL concerns Dr. Syx an dhis nrtemisium"
Listen" replied iall. settling back In
| his chair after disconnccting his appara-
tus. You no doubt have been told how
one night the syx engine was heard work
Ing for a few minutes, tho frst ard only
night work Il was ever known 90 have
done and how. hardly had IL started up
when a fire broke out In the mill. and the
engine ives instantly stopped. Now there
| Is a very remarkable story connected Win
that, and It viii show YOU how / got my
| first clew TO the mystery. although u was
rather a mere suspicion than clew. Tor
at first / could make nothing out OF IT,
/ The alleged fire occurred about Tort
night after our discovery Of the double
tunnel Nv mind was then fun OF sns-
plcions concerning Syx. because thought
that a man who would fool people Win
one hand was not likely 10 deal fairly
with the other.
1T was a glorious night with a fun
| moon. whose face was so clear IN the
limpId air that. having found "a snug place
a. the foot OF yellow pine tree, "hefe
the ground was carpeted with odotiterious
needles / lay on my back ANA remover
my early acquaintance with the romanu-
caiiv named mountains and seas OF the
Lunar globe. with my binocular could
| trace those long white strcaks which "a
date from the crater ring called tycho
ana run hundreds OF miles Ia all direetioos
over the moon. As I gaked NJ these sin-
r,iiar objects I RECALLED the various theo-
ries which astronomers. puzzled by their
erigmatical aspect. have offered To- more
or less eonhdlng public concerning them-
In the midst OF my meditation ana
moon gazing l was startled by hearing the
engine In the syx works suddenly begin TO
| run. Immediately a queer light. shaped
hike the beam OF a ships scarchllght, but
reddish in color. rose high in the moon
II, heavens above the mill. II dld not last
moro than a minute or two. for almost IN
/ stantly the engine was stopped ana WIN
its stoppaHe the light faded and soon dis
| appeared The next day DR.. SyN gave u
out that on starting up his engine IN inc
/ night something had caught IRE winch
COMPELLED him Immediately TO shut down
again. The few who had seen the iEht'
with the exception OF your honorable ser
want accented the doctors explanation
| without question. But ! knew there had
been no are. and SyN's anxiety 20 spreaa
/ the lie led me 10 believe that he had mar
rowly escaped giving away a vital secret
/ I said nothing about my suspicious bu'
upon inquiry / found out that an extra
| ara pressing order FOR metal had ar
.
drew the inference that Syx. ia his
haste. 60 nh the ordeT-his supply having
been drawn low-had started 10 Worh,
contrary 20 his custom, az night ana han
Immediately found reason 20 repent the
rnshness OF course. connected the
strange light with this sudden change OF
mind.
MY suspicion having been thus s'im-
uiated and having been directed ~ GER
HNrnF mr.
notice closely the hours during when the
engine labored ~ night II was always
ouiet except on that one brief occasion.
Sometimes Il began early In the morning
and stopped about noon. Al other tunes
Inc work was done entirely In the after
noon. beginning sometimes as hte as OF
4 O'Clock and ceasing invariably a. sun
down Then again Il would start AZ sun
rise and continue the whole day through.
For a long time ! was unable TO ac-
count for these ccccntricltics. and the
problem was not rendered much clearer
although a startling suggestiveness was
added 10 ~. when. at length, noticed
that the periods OF activity OF the engine
had a DEFINITE relation 10 the age OF the
moon. Then discovered. with the AID Of
an almanac. that could predict the hours
when the engine would be busy. At the
time OF new moon Il worked all day. az
full moon and last quarter - laboTeb ~
the forenoon. the length OF its working
hours increasing as the quarter was APP
| preached; between last quarter and new
moon the hours OF work heightened until,
as have said. at new moon they lasted
all day: between new moon and FIRST quar-
der work began later and later in the fore
noon as the quarter was approached and
between FIRST quarter and fun moon the
laborlng hours rapidly shortened, being
confined 10 the latter part OF the alter
noon. until at fun moon complete silence
reigned In the mill"
well! wellr' I broke In, greatly aston
ished by Halls singular recital, you
must have thought Or. Syx was a cross
between an alchemist ana on astrolo-
ger"
Note this" said Hall, disregarding my
interruption. "thc hours when the engine
worked were invariably tho hours during
which the moon was above the horizon.
what did you infer from that"
"Of course I inferred that the moon
was directly concerned IA the mystery
but how7 That bothered me for long
time. but "a little light broke into my
mind when picked up. on the mountain
side a dead bird. whose scrochcd feath
ers were hronzcd with art emlsium' ana
sometime later another similar victim or
a mysterious form OF death Then came
the attack on the mine ana tie tragic mn
ish. I have already told YOU what ! Oh
served on that occasion. But instead OF
helping 10 clear up che mystery u rather
complicated u for a time. At length, how
ever. I reasoned my way partly out OF
the difficulty. Certain things which / had
noticed in the syx mill convinced me thar
there was a part OF the building whose
existence no visitor suspected. and put
ting one thing with another ! inferred
that the roof must be open above that
secret part OF the structure. ana that u
I could get upon sufficiently elevated
place could see something OF what was
hidden there.
al this point IN the investigation l
proposed to YOU the trip 20 the top 81 the
I Teton, the result OF which you remember
had calculated the angles with great
care. and I felt certain that from me
apox Of the mountain should Be able 70
l get a view into the concealed chamhet
ana into just what side OF u whieh
wished particularly to INSPECT. foh re-
member that I called your attention 70 a
I shining object underneath the circular
opeuing In the roof. You could not make
cut what Il was. but ! saw enough 20
| convince me.ihat n was gigantic para
I boiic mirror. I'll show you a smaller one
- - came hind urgenntlg