The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-08
CH APYER VII.
AT IiADlEN MANOR

! Radley Common lies north Of Lon
don by about ten miles. On the verge
| or this lonely understanding common
! stands high. square mullionel- Win
| lowed house, built in El2abeths day.
! with dark red walls and a steep tiled
! ROOF surmounted by clusters of great
| chimreyS
IN one Of the upper rooms of this 81
; lent and solitary old manor house, a
vast, high-ceilinged apartment. man
sat AT an immense table Uttered with
papers, books. drawings and designs
Bottles containing all kinds of chem
tcalS, jars the skins of serpents, fishes
and snakes, the tibers Of exotic plans
models OF apparatus, moudS, and
strange shaped Instruments, either
stood on brackets. hung on the walls
or lay in hopeless confusion or the
floor.
10 judge by the volumes that, row
| upon row, lined the walls the occu-
pant WAS Il mnn whose mind found
room for the study of widely differing
branches of lInoWledge
AZ the far EN-! of the room stood a
furnace, rows of electric motors. coils
or Wire and machinery of different
kinds.
Whatever the experiment was that
III the moment engaged the occupant
OF the room, he WAS so absorbed Tint
1t was only when it was repeated that
he started suddenly. his strong hands
cihSplnE the arms Of the chair, his fine
mead with its mass of iron gray hair
thrown back. his blue eyes flashing in
FeHatlon, for il WAS understood that
While in this room he was never to be
disturbed save in cases of urgent i'm
portanCc
WHO goes there" he asked in Ital-
ian.
Father, it is l." came the answe,.
III the sweetest and sentlesr of voices,
spoken in the same language.
You, my Roma" he said. changing
ms ms tone Of blusqueness to affection.
What do you want, my jlaughtcr?"
Count Sasari has just arrived"
SASafl here exclaimed her father,
Lorenzo Neneto. All, but it is good to
see some one from our land; say | Shall
be with him immcdiately."
Taking the LIQUIDS with which he had
p"@N eXperimenting, he carefully locked
them l. e safe. unraStened the double
doors OF his study. ana in turn secured
Them and 1hcn hurried down stairs to
a sparsely furnished room where his
visitor awaited him.
Count SaSari was Il man just over
thirty, middle sized and stout Not
WithStandiNG the SquarcnesS of his fig
ure, an indeinable air of breeding gave
- ''ll'''''t 'iiiNt IL ttItill ulSllltllDl.
My friend. my friend, it warns my
I1eart TO see YOU. for YOU bring With
You the sunshine of our Italy" Neneto
said enthusiastically. as he burst into
the room.
You see l have disturbed you" said
tn" younger man when their affection
at" greetings had ended
Would that such n happy disturb
ance occurred every day. But tell me,
now rs beloved pOnnlI.E
Don't let US talk politics. but tell me
Whit You are working att" said Sasari.
anxious TO turn the conversation.
am working at many things" re-
piled Neneto. readily complying with
his friends request. Il am always div
ing into natures secrets"
You are q strange combinations.
SaSari replied You who are a .oliti-
cal refugee. IN electrical engineer an
inventor an analytical chemist, and
dreamer all in one
All that and something else" Veneto
replied laughingly, for there is always
more in Il man than his friends see or
than he acknowledges
What may that be in you. case. my
iriend?"
Neneto laughed once more.
Seriously" he said. Il will tell you
what chiefly occupies me just now /
am haunted by an idea which may lead
10 an invention that Will direct and
control the energy Storei in coal, which
is now lost in the heat that escapes
through the chimneEs. a successful
result would have been incalculable in
nuence upon The world"
That is practical. But have YOU laid
aside the great clock Scheme?"
No, no. But | relieve the effort OF
labor in one direction by following it
in another.
"My belief IS that grent ideas. WON