The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-07-19
CHAPTER UI.-continued.

w0on I surround the field of emanatiOn
By Z shield which captures the vibra-
lions, they are conducted to a receiv-
Or more delicate and sensitive than
anything which has yer been achiev-
Cd by scientific process before. That
receiver collects these vibrations and
q transmit them, just in the manner
Of Z telephone or telegraph wire, for
almost any distance"
"And at the other end:" Marjorie
asked.
1T h@ been a difficulty Of ten long,
anxious, ur wearying years"
"And now?"
Now that diniculty has been finally
overcome"
''Therefore?"
what q person thinks in London
can be sent In vibrations along a wire
70 Paris"
RI see! l understand! But when
there they ear only be transmitted to
another brain, Of course. You mean
that you have invented a more mar.
velous system of telegraphy than has
ever been invented before. For in
stance. l could sit here in this room
and communicate with you with abso-
Lutte freedom In Paris. How wonderful
thA is! What a triumphant achieve
msnt! But-but, William, marvellous
o. It IL, you do not s~ubstantiate what
you said just now. The secrets Of
thought may be yours, but only when
the sender Wills It,"
"Ah," he answered, with a deep note
Of meaning coming into his voice like
q sudden drum at midnight, "if I had
only discovered what you say, I should
have discovered much. But l have
gone far, far away from this. l have
done much, much more, and in that
Hes the supreme value Of my work"
Once more they were standing to-
gether, strained with wonder, with
amazement and triumph passing be-
tween them like the shuttle of a loom.
Once more she was caught up In high
realms Of excitement and dawning
knowledge, the gates to which had
never been opened to her brain before.
ITO come back to the monograph"
Sir William said. "The marks are
made upon the waxen cylinder and
they are reproduced in sound, record
ID upon metal cylinders. to remain for
eve as a definite reproduction of the
human voice. Now-and here come
% the final point OF ALL have discoy-
cred q means by which thought car be
turned into actual vision, into an actu,
q expression of itself .or every one to
read. What l mean is this: l have
discovered the process, and I have in
vented the machine by which, as a
person thinks, the thought can be con-
veyed to any distance along the wire.
can be received at the other end by an
instrument which splits 1t up into this
or that vibration. And these vibra-
lions actuate upon a machine, a COM
bination Of the spectroscope and the
bioscope, which shows them upon a
screen in the form Of either pictures
or Of words-as the thoughts of the
thinker are 1t that moment sent out
By the brain in words or pictures"
Then what does this mean?"
1T means that once by apparatus,
whether by consent of the subject or
By force, Is employed to collect the
thought vibrations. then no secrets
can be hidden. The human soul must
reveal itself. Human personality is
robbed OF It's only defense. There
will be no need to try the criminal OF
the future. He must confess in spite
Of himself. The i~nviOlability OF
thought Is destroyed. The lonely cita-
del OF self exists no longer. The pious
hypocrite must give his secrets to the
world, and saints and sinners must
confess to man what only God knew
before.
Marjorie sat down in her chair and
severed her face with her hands.
Various emotions thronged and pulsed
through her brain. The s%tupendous
thing that this mar had done filled
her with awe for his powers, with
terror almost, but with a great exulta-
don also. She did not love him, she
knew we'll that she had never loved
him, but she realized her influence
over him. She knew that this supreme
intellect was hers to do with as she
would. She knew that II he was in
deed. a. he said, master of the VOL,
che was mistress of his mind-she was
lho mistress Of him! The mysterious
eorcs Of his love. greater than any 9TH
or earthly force which he could Cap
tur6 or control. had made him. who
oould make the minds Of others his
slaves and instruments. her slave.
Yes, Love! That, after all, was the
eroatost force In the whole world.
aero wa . more conclusive proof
thar. perhaps, any woman had ever
Md before In the history of humanity.
Love! Even while the inmost Sc.
9ets cf Nature were wrested from her
81 such . man 40 this, Love was still
~ master. Love was still the motive
0ovor u - world!
And @ ~ thought that she forgot
~ . mo11oq4 NJ her fears and all her
WonAer 81. nnal realization Of what
~ NJ poets had sung and Al the
nelenkiste aUtrjysn to destroy. Her
t,ood thsilIo1 and pulsed with the
hnoWls1ne Dc It did not thrill or