The Columbus journal., 1909-04-07
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| spair. He came. back and crowded
through their midst, examining a con
nectiOn and tracing ont one of the
strands. and then stood in listless at.
titude. his brows drawn into q ffown
and his arms hanging loose and pendu.
iOus from his shoulders. The time
| stretched into minutes, and jenkins
and Norma. began discussion, ia
which the others listened, striving to
| understand the phraseo!ogy of cleo.
| trical science, of which many of them
had little more than the. layman's
knowledge. Suddenly sharp cry
came from the inventor.
They looked to the otter side of the
| room. whittier he had retreated. and
beheld him jumping up aad down like
mailman. His fists were clenchetl
and thrust into the air, where they
opened c,avlise and waved treMolo
of excitement. I've got it, he
screamed. I've solved it,
They drew back fro.l, him. fearing
that failure had loosencd his brain:
but he rushed through the group, ex-
citedly calling for men to repair the
break. The admiral. unused to his
periods of enthusiasm. stared at him
blankly, his lower jaw uncOuscicus1y
dropping until his mouth yawned in
cavernCus suspense. In his mind
nothing but insanity could account for
this Outburst.
Norma. on the other hand. laid a
restraining hand on his arm and said:
-Father, what's the matter? What
is it,
We've been working in the dark"
he answered vehemenrly. and then
with the iubila;iOn of a boy but in a
caimer tone continued: by an &C.
cident We have discovered powers in
our combination OF electricity and
metallurgy that We have not dreamed
of. and which, if we can control them,
make the resistant arn1or We came
down here TO manufacture as useless
as = wooden hull"
The admiral suddenly dropped his
bulk to stool. Good God!" he
Sasped, ARE you mad
Norma. like. one from whose eyes a
hOodwirk has been suddenly removed.
and appearing almost to have read her
fathers mind. put her hand out to his
shoulder and looked at him searching.
II. 4 slow grin of great exultation
swept over the lean old face into
which she peercd. drove the wrinkles
into the corners of the eyes. and q
mass Of radiating burrows round the
mouth.
You've guessed it, he said, and
then turned to the admiral. "Rrockton.
you don't know what that hole meant;
but in an hour from now I'm going to
show YOU. That is. Norma, my as
sistant, and / WILL"
Then in Il sudden frenzy for work
he asked them all to leave until he
sent for them. and they. wondering
and speculatins on his next endeavor,
Obeyed. Only the workmen. who had
descended into the cavity and were
preparing to hoist the plate and mold.
and the admiral. by special invitation,
remained. The clang of hammers re-
sounded hollawly through the room
as the timbeTs beneath the floor were
shOred up by the carpenters; then
came the setting of another and lar
ger tank than the one which had been
SO unexpectedly driven into the earth.
The smaller plates which had been in
tended only for experimental purposes
were exhausted. and therefore they
had nothing on which to operate save
two immense castings weighing many
tons. Wide sliding doors rolled back,
and wOrkmen from the foundry, with
s'raining muscles and clinging toes.
slowly pushed in low-wheeled cars on
which rested the huge pieces of metal.
A steel crane projected its ungainly
arm. reached slowly down. and In a
Titanic grasp picked up one piece,
moved it into position over the new
bed. and deposited it in a great basin
whose material indicated that it would
be able to Withstand any heat.
The acmiral in boyish exuberance
would have thrown wide the door: but
the invelto-, remembering the other
contretemps. forbade. The latter
busted himself for few minutes in
his stOrehouse. and returned with a
sheet of peculiar insulation which was
of his own invention. almost indie
by heat. and q resistant to
any form of radiosctivity. which he
placed with great care on top of the
huge plate. The second plate was
lowered squarely on top of this.
clamped for additional security. and
the wOrkmcn dismissed. The connec-
tons were made in identically the
same way ~ in the previous test, ex-
cept that Ole electrical! apparatus was
attached to the upper plate above the
insulation and the other to the one
Brockton seeing that the
were about to be applied,
backed of into the corner. until
stopped by the farthermost Partition |
GRO BE CONTINUED,
The Living Present.
He that hath SO many causes of ioy
md so great is very much in love. xvjtI,