Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-12-02

ing a fund for the purpose that would
turn up century or two after his
death? And might not the statue have
something to do with its location
Though he did not know 1t. he had
made mental leap bridging a CEN
tury since his ancestors death. He
determined to make a study Of the
statue, and everything that pertained
to #. Every morning he devoted an
hour to sitting before the bronze. look
ing at Il and thinking about 1t. Per
haps he fancied that By thus mentally
dwelling upon It through some spirit
nal process the secret would be
impaired to him. The inscription en-
gagged his attention, but he could make
nothing Of it. And yet there must
have been an object in putting 1t there
alone, and especially with the hour and
minute Of birth. s ..9s. ',..s. Fl.
One morning Colonel Granville was
sitting as usual studying the statue.
The sun spot was crawling slowly over
the wall as It had been travelling year
In and year out for 100 years. The
colonel was watching it as he had Of
ten watched 1t before. A. third new
idea came to him. Might not this
sun spot have some meaning?
ss There seems to be two kinds Of ideas
in the human brain. those that are
original or parent ideas and those that
are offspring. The present case is an
Illustration The conception that the
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was In a measure original Though ev-
erything. after all. is but link In an
eternal chain, and it suggested anoth-
er ldea-viz, Might not there be con-
nection between the sun spot and the
date of birth on the statue2
4. Colonel Granville sprang from his
chair. He was confident that he had
made an important discovery. What
that discovery would lead to was an
other matter, He had little expecta-
ton that it would work out his first
conceptions which had come from the
letter he had read. but he hoped IL
might solve the mystery Of the statue
and the date, inscribed upon 1t. He
was not long in inferring that on the
day, hour and minute recorded ON the
statue the sun spot would rest on a.
part Of the wall which would give
some information or injunction intend
ed by the man who had erected the.
statue. ,l:+ ~,
The inscription gave the year. which,
could be of no importance since the
sun traverses the same apparent patti,
annually; the day, June II; the hour.
1O-o'clock, land the minute. the TWEEN
:ty-dfth. In other. words. IL this were
the true explanation, on June II, at
twenty-five minutes after 10 o'clock,
the position Of the sun spot would
mean something. It could not refer to
10 o'clock at night for an obvious rea-
son. -. .,.- II e KS E.
~ It was early in April when Colonel
Granville hit upon this possible ex-
PLANTATION. Nearly two months OF wait
ing would be necessary before the spot
would reach position corresponding
with the date. The colonel. too .impa-T
ttent to, defer investigation for what;
seemed to him SO long period, was
eager to get a computer to come: and
calculate where the spot would be on
the given day. but he knew of no one.
at hand who would be able to make
the calculation. Besides. he had no
desire to suffer the obloquy such an act
would cast upon him. for when he
stopped to think he was forced to ad-
init that no more chimerical idea could
enter the brain of man, s$s4
( So he was obliged to wait and while
waiting planned an excuse for what
he proposed to do. He determined to-
make afhole in the wall where the sun.
spot rested on the 18th Of June ar
twenty five minutes past 10 ID the
morning, and he proposed to tell the
household that he was looking for r.
convenient location for a chimney her
was thinking Of building. Every day
after that the ecolonel watched the
movement Of the spot with keen inter
est. and at the end Of a month he.
could calculate pretty nearly where IT
would fall on the 18th of June How
ever. he waited till the date came
round 9E z3#
Il Now, on the 18th of June the sum
stands very high. practically at the.
highest point during the year. Con-
sequently the spot was at the lowest
point. In fact, it rested on the floor
The colonel bored hole In the floor
ing. inclining it from the sextanf to-
the point of the spots contact and, in
sserting "a tube, noted place In the;
%eallarE whnra 3.fhsa limo ~ vic;au rYn.E