Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-10
THE MYSTERY
BY STEWART WHITE SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS.
Copyright BY Mcclure.

friend hard-press? Never. One million.
One little million dollars
~ haven't that amount with me- 1 be-
gan.
of no account he declared, airily.
Soon we shall hat many more times as
that. Gift me your c. o. d.
MY 1. o. u 1 inquired.
1T makes no matter. See. I will gift it
He handed me the metal continuance.
1t was closed.
Inside ISIS a little, such a very little.
Not yet ISIS it arranged the motive-power
to give-forth One change-to-be
made that shall require. But the other
phenomena all in this little half grain
comprised Later l shall tell you more.
Take it. 1t ISIS without price He laid his
hand on my shoulder. Like the love of
friends, he said gently
Feeling in his upper wa!stcoat pocket,
, Darrow brought out phial. so tiny that it
| rolled in the palm of his hand. He contem-
| plated it, lost in thought.
"Radum?" queried Barnett. with the
keen interest of the scientist.
God knows what 1t is said Darrow,
rousing himself. Not the perfected pro-
| duct; the doctor said that when he gave it
| to me. If 1 could remember one-tenth of
| what he told me that night! 1t is like dis
ordered dream, phantasmagoria of mon
strous powers, lit up with an intolerable
| almost Internal radiance. This much
did gather that Dr. schermerhorn had
achieved what the greatest minds before
| u.
| Becquerel, the Curies. Rutherford-they
| were playing with the letters of the Greek
| alphabet, Alphas. Gamnaas, and Rios. while
the simple. gentle old boy that 1 served
| had read the secret. From the molten
| eruptions Of the racked earth he had taken
| gases and potencies that are nameless. By
| what methods of combination and refining
| l do not know, he produced something that
| was to be the final word of power. Control
| -control-that was all that lacked
| Reduced to it's simplest terms, 1t meant
| this; the doctor had something as much
| greater than radium as radium is greater
| than the pitchblende of which thousand
| tons are melted down to the one ounce of
| extract. And the incredible energies of
| this he proposed to divide into departments
| of activity One manifestation should be
| light a light that would illuminate the
, world. Another was to make motive power
! SO cheap that the work of the world could
! be done in an hour out of the day. Some
| idea he had of healing properties. Yes; he
was to cure mankind. Or kill. kill as no
| man had ever killed did he choose. The
| armies and navies of the powers would be
| at his mercy. Magnetism was to be his
| slave. Aerial navigation. transmutation of
metals, the screening of gravity-does this
sound like delirium? Sometimes l think it
| was.
THAT night he turned over to me the key
| of the large chest and his ledger. The lat
| ter he babe me read. 1t was a complete
tumble. You have seen it. We were
| up good part of the night with our pet
| volcano. II was SUFFERING from internal
disturbances. So the doctor would say
indulgently. when particularly active rock
| came bounding down our way Little play
| antics-to-exhibit now that the work ISIS fin
! lshed
| I'm the morning he insisted on my leav-
ing him alone and going down to give the
| orders. 1 took the ledger, intending to send
| 1t aboard. 1t saved my life possibly; Solo,
! mons bullet detected slightly. 1 think, in
| passing through the heavy paper. Slade
| has told you about my flight. l ought to
| have gone straight up the arroyo.
| Yet I could hardly have made it.
l did not see him again. the doctor. My
| last glimpse the old mani remerl-
| Der row how the gray had spread through
| his beard-he was growing od-it had been
| ageing labor. He stood there at his labora-
| tory door and the mountain spouted ana
| Numbered behind.
| eve will a name-to-sut-properly gif It,
he said, as left him. 1T shall make as
| the gods. We will call 1t celestium.
| Il left him smiling Smiling happily. The
greatest force of his age-if he had lived.
| Very wise, very simple-a kind old child.
| May l trouble you for light? Thanks
| ITO be Concluded Tomorrow