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upon the head of a man or woman
when ] surround the field OF emanatior
by a shield which captures the vibra
lions, they are conducted to a receiv
or more delicate and sensitive thar
anything which has ever been achiev
ed by scientific process before. That
receiver collects these vibrations and
can transmit them, just in the manner
of q telephone or telegraph wire, for
almost any distance"
"And at the other end?" Marjorie
asked.
ut has been a difficulty OF ten long,
anxious, mwearying years"
"And now"
"Now that difficulty has been finally
overcome"
"Therefore?"
what a person thinks in London
a be sent in vibrations along a wire
to Paris"
81 see! understand! But when
there they a only be transmitted to
another brain, OF course. You mean
that you have invented a more mar
velous system of t%elegraphy han has
W 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
that Is! What a triumphant achieve
ment! But-but, William, marvellous
as II IL, you do not substantiate what
you said just now. The secrets OF
Ahnunht n ~ ,,nur. k,t npl,, uvhn,,
the sender wills It."
"Ah," he answered, with a deep note
Of meaning coming into his voice like
q sudden drum at midnight, "if | had
only discovered what you say, I should
have discovered much. But | have
gone far, far away from this. | have
done much, much more, and In that
lies 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 mor she was caught UP In high
realms of excitement and dawning
knowledge. the gates to which had
Eve been opened to her brain before.
"To come back to the pnonograph.'
Sir William said. "The marks are
made upon the waxen cylinder and
they are reproduced in sound, record
ed upon metal cylinders, TO remain for
ever as a definite reproduction OF the
human voice. Now-and here / come
60 the final point of ALL have discov-
cred a means by which thought can be
turned into actual vision, into an actu.
al expression of itself ;or every one to
read. What | mean Is this: | have
discovered the process, and | 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
In the form Of either pictures
or of words-as the thoughts of the
thinker are at that moment sent out
by the brain In words or pictures"
"Then what does this mean?"
at 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
OF its only defense. There
will be no need to try the criminal of
Tho future. He must confess In spite
OF himself. The inviolability of
is destroyed. The lonely cita-
del of self exists no longer. The pieus
hypocrite must give his secrets TO the
and saints and sinners must
confess to man what only God knew ,
scfcre.
Marjorie sat down In her chair and
severed her face with her hands.
Various emotions thronged and pulsed