The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-13
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MYSTERY
By Stewart Edward White
And Samuel Hopkins Adams
Copyright 1907. by Mcclure, Phillips D Co.
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1--WE polkaed into the open. There
he cast me loose. He stopped singing
and burst into rhapsody OF disjoint
ed words. Mostly German, 1t was a
wondrous tumble OF the scientific and
poetic. Eureka occurred at intervals
Then he would leap in the air. 1t was
weird; II was distressing. Crazy? oh,
quite! For the time. you understand
IL any OF us should suddenly become
the most potent individual In the
world. wouldn't he be apt to lose bal
Rnce temporarily? One must make al
lowances. There was excuse for the
doctor. He had reached the goal.
Percy. you shall be rewarded he
tald. You haf like trump card
tuck by me. You shall haf riches.
gold. what you will. You are young
your blood runs red With such riches
nothing is beyond YOU. You could the
sucient tombs of Egypt explore. 1t Is
open to you such collections as have
ucvnr been gathered TO make. Whai
shat, II be-scarabs. missals. pre-
hlstoric Implements Amuse yourself
neln kind, We shall he able the bills
with usurious interest to pay. What
Will Won haf?'
IL said Id like a vacation II con.
venient.
Presently he replied. There yet
remains the guardianship 10 be per
fected. Then TO n world astonished
and respectful we return. Tonight we
celebrate. I'play you n rubber of pin.
ochle'
I'VE played. With the greatest Sc
crct Of science resting at our elbows
we played. The doctor won. My
mind was not strictly on the game
In the morning the doctor sang once
more | shall never hear its like again
Was IL n week or month after that;
cannot remember. fancy | was ex
cited. Then. too. there was something
in the atmosphere about the laboratory
don't know. Imagination possibly
Once we had little manifestation
the night that the Niger and Slade
were terrified by the rock fires. Days
of excitement and pleasant work, with
the little vaicano grumbling more sulk-
lily all the time. l'have spent worse
days.
such Indifference as the doctor dis
played toward the volcano | have new
er known. II | ventured TO warn him
he would assure me that there was no
cause for alarm. / think he regarded
that little helrs kitchen as merely n
feed spout for his vast enterprise. lie
felt a sort OF affection toward IL. He
was tolerant of its petty fits of temper
That he completed his work before the
destruction came was sheer luck
nothing else. The day before the out
burst. he came TO me with tiny vial
of complicated design.
Percy, | will at reasonable price
sell this to you he said.
"'How much? | inquired, respond
ing 10 his playfulness.
"a bargain" he cried gaily. Five
millions dollars! No! Shall | upon a
needy friend hard press? Never. One
million. One little million dollarsr
81 haven't that amount with me-
began.
"'Of no account he declared slrlly.
Soon we shall hat many more times
as that. Gif me your c. D. D.
"'My o W inquired.
lit makes no matter. See! | will
gif 1t TO you gratis
He handed me the metal contrl-
vance. II was closed.
Inside iss little, such a very lit
tie. Not yet ISIS 1t arranged the motive
TO be made that shall require. But the
other phenomena are all In this little
half grain comprised. Later | shall
tell you more. Take it. II ISIS without
price He laid his hand on my shout
der Like the love of friends he said
gently"
Feeling ia his upper waistcoat pock
ct, barrow brought out vial. so tiny
that 1t rolled in the palm of his hand.
He contemplated 1t. lost In thought.
"Radium?" queried Barnett, with the
keen interest of the scientist.
God knows what II ISL said Oar
row. rouslng himself. Not the per-
fected product. The doctor said that
when be gave 1t to me. II could re-
member one-tenth of what he told me
that night 1t is like disordered dream.
a phantasmagorla OF monstrous pow
ers, lit up with an intolerable, almost
an internal radiance. This much did
DR.. Schermerhorn had
achieved what the greatest minds be-
fore him had barely outlined. Yes,
and more. Becquerel. the Curles.
Rutherford-they were playing with
the letters OF the Greek alphabet, Al
phas, Gammas and Rios, while the
simple, gentle old boy that l served
had read the secret. From the molten
eruptions Of the racked earth he had
taken gases and potencies that are
By what methods of combi-
nation and refining / 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 II
meant this: The doctor had something
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