The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-07-07
CHAPTER VII.
AT HADLEY MAN0p

Hadley Common lies north of Lon
ooh by about ten miles. On the verge
OF TINS lonely understanding common
stands q high. square mullioned-win-
doWed house, built In Elizabeth's DAY,
with dark red walls and a steep tiled
1901 s~Nrtnounted by clusters OF great
chimncys.
IN Il of the upper rooms of this 81
lent and solitary old manor house, a
vast, high-ceilinged apartment, a man
sat at an immense table Uttered with
papers, books. drawings and designs.
bott!es containing all kinds of chem
lcals, jars, the skins of serpents, fishes
and snakes, the flbers of exotic plans,
models Of apparatus, moulds, and
strange shaped Instruments. either
stood on brackets. hung on the walls,
foo.
10 Judge by the volumes that, row
upon row., lined the walls, the occu-
pant was a mar whose mind found
room for the study Of widely differing
branches Of knowledge.
AT the far end OF the room stood a
furnace. rows Of electric motors, coils
of wire, and machinery OF different
kinds.
Whatever the experiment was that
at the ome engaged the occupant
OF the room, he was SO absorbed that
he failed to hear the knock at the door.
II was only when II was repeated that
he started suddenly, his strong hands
clasPing the arms of the chair, his fine
head with its mass OF iron gray hair
thrown back, his blue eyes flashing in
VeNation' for 1t was understood that
while IN this room he vas never 10 be
disturbed save in cases of urgent i'm
, purtance.
who goes there" he asked in Ital-
ian.
Father, it is L. came the answer
in the sweetest and g~entlest Of voices,
spoken in the same language.
You. my Roma" he said, changing
his O II of ~brusqueness to affection.
What do you want, my daughter?"
Count Sasari has just arrived"
"Sasari here?" exclaimed her father.
Lorenzo Neneto. An, but ii Is good to
see some one from our land; say l shall
be with him immediately"
Taking the liquids with which he had
been experimenting. lie carefully locked
them in n safe, unfaStened the double
doors Of his study, II In turn secured
them. and then hurried down stairs to
Il sparsely furnished room where his
visitor awaited him.
Count Sasari was n man just over
thirty. middle sized and stout Not
withstandiug the sQuareness of his fig
ure. an indefinable air OF breeding gave
his appearance a certain distinction,
My friend, my friend, it warns my
heart to see you. for YOU bring with
YOU the sunshine of our Italy" Neneto
said enthusiastically, as he burst into
the room.
You see 1 have disturbed YOU" said
the Younger man when their affection
ate greetings had ended.
Would that such a happy disturb
ance occurred every day. But tell me,
how is my beloved country
Don't let 10 talk politics, but tell me
what you are working nt?" SAID Sasari,
anxious to turn the conversation
I am working at many things" re-
piled Veneto. readily complying with
his friends request. II am always div
ing into natures secrets"
You are a strange COmhination.'
Sasari replied. you who are a politi-
cal refugee, an electrical engineer, an
inventor. an. analytical chemist, and g
dreamer all In one"
".&n that and something else" Veneto
replied laughingly, for there Is always
more in a man than his friends see Or
than he acknowledgment
What may that be in your case, my
friend?'
Ncneto laughed once more.
"Seriously," he aid II will tell you
what chiefly occupies me Just now. l
am hauntet by an Idea which may lead
TO an invention that will direct and
control the energy stored in coal, which
Is HOW lost in the heat that escapes
through the chimneys. a successful
result would have been incalculable in
nuence upon the world"
THAT is practical. But have you laid
aside the great clock scheme"
mo, no. But I relieve the effort of
labor in one direction by following 1t
in another.
My belief is that great ideas. Won
derful thoughts. are in the afr, striving