Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-10-27

that one of my needles Is placed at
A and another at b. Then. by OBJ
serving the direction and the inclina-
ton to one another Of the radial lines
CA and C-B and the direction of
the dotted line joining them and know
ing the distance between A and b. you
have all the elements needed for a SIM
pie trigonometrical calculation which
will give the location Of the point Z.
This. however. applies only to the
case where the waves are sent out
"undirected" on all sides. With "di-
rected" waves, which are now almost
universally employed az they were at
the time of which I am writing. q
variation of the process is required.
1t is then necessary that the waves
shall be sent either simultaneously or
at an interval from the point O sepa-
rately to A and B. This being done.
the result Is the same as before. the
location Of @ being determined
In the latter case a single instrument
will suffice. being used first at A and
then at B.
I knew that the last described meth
Cd would have to be employed. since.
as l have already explained. Payton
was sending directed" messages to
Mr.. Grayman, although the latter's re-
plies were necessarily "undirected."
because Payton would not designate
his location. and the waves had to be
sent out on all sides in order to ind
him. The only problem for us I saw
would be to induce Payton to commu.
nicate In succession from the same
point with two widely separated sta
tons.
As soon rs be should have done that
I knew that I could spot" him.
Having thought this out and Turkish
ed up my apparatus to make sure that
1t was in good working order. I re-
turned with It to Mr.. Grantham's of.
dee. The secretary was delighted with
my explanation Of the device.
We've got himr' he exclaimed giee-
fully. "As sure as there Is a Great
Chief Justice In the heavens we've got
him. and wen give him bis deserts
And, young man, your fortune Is made
Do you know what Mr.. Grayman will
do to reward you for restoring his
daughter?"
mo. sir: I haven't thought about
that"
"Well, I don't know. either" be re-.
piled, with Quizzical smile. but
have thought about It. and I know
what I'd do, anyhow"
Then he looked at me for a moment,
laughing good humoredly. But. sud-
denly becoming serious "We'll take
the first train for New York." he said
There b no time to be lost Payton
will communicate tomorrow. and we
must be on the spot With everything
In readiness"
The next morning Mr.. Grantham and
I went together In an auto from our
hotel, where we had arrived In the
middle Of the night to Mr.. Grayman's
Office.
This b Lieutenant Allan" said MI.
Crantham. presenting me very courte-
ausly. II have already told you about
him and my expectations Of him. He
q not going to fail Us. He has brought
along little apparatus which, fancy,
will do the business for Mr.. Alfonso
Payton- Lieutenant Allan. please show
Mr.. Grayman your machine and tell
him how It works."
The great Millionaire was % delight.
ed with the explanation 40 the score
tary had been.
But how" he asked, after a mo-
ment's reflection. are we going to in.
duce Payton to send two messages to
different points7 And how do we
know that he will send them from his
hiding placer He may communicate
from his aero"
II have worked that all out. Gray.
man." replied the secretary. in the
first place. as to his communicative
from his 7odge'-for Judge by your
daughters letter that that ID what he
calls his lair-l believe that there Il
very little question. he will want to
continue to entertain her and to hull
her suspicious; and 90. having, prob
ably. no more important business than
this, he will remain there. You can
make sure BY asking for news Of your
daughter.
'Then. a. for inducing him to send
two messages, that win be easy. Lieu.
tenant Allan tells me that be wishes to
select place for the second communi.
cation at considerable distance from
New York, in order to b sure Of hav.
Ing a manageable angIel Assuming
that Payton's place Is somewhere in
the Allegheny range. or the Blue Ridge
although, of course. we cannot bank
much on the indication Of the post.
marks, but It Is not likely to be much
farther away-Bu6alo would probably
serve our turn.
All that you have to do. then, will
be to interrupt payton after he has
gone far enough In bis communication
today to enable Allan to determine the
direction OF the waves and tell him
that sudden imperative call has sum.
moned you to Buffalo ana that you
must 60 there tonight Tell him that
until You have seen your man in But.
falo and arranged the AFFAIR that you
have in hand You cannot name a day
when you will be free to meet him, but
that IL be will communicate with you
In Buffalo tomorrow you win be in a
position to settle It
"Of course you know the wireless
telephone number of some Buffalo cor.
Give 1t to Payton and tell
him to call You up there. Then we
will take the night train for Buffalo
and be ready for him In the morning.
and ! guarantee that after that Allan
will not be ten minutes In uncovering
the hawks nest"
But" objected Mr. Grayman. "since
have already put him on on a simi.
lar Dio0 that will univ ovcffo hia ~y,o.