Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-19
CHAPTER XIII.
low 1t All Was.

II NOR MS snare IN the foregoing
Percy barrow was extensively
blamed. 1t was universally
conceded that his action in permit
ting Monsieur X to continue his ac-
tivities up to the danger point was in
excusable. The public mind should
have been treasured long before.
Much terror and physical suffering
might thus have been avoided-not
to speak of financial loss. Scientific
men, Furthermore, went frantic over
his unwarranted destruction of the
formulas. Percy barrow was vari-
ously described as a heartless mon
ster and a scientific vandal. To these
aspersions he paid no attention what
ever
Helen Warford, however, became
vastly indignant and partisan, and in
consequence Percy Darrow's course
in the matter received from her its
full credit for a genuine altruism.
Hallowell, also, held persistently to
this point, as far as his editors would
permit him. until at last the public
mind somewhat Gained, attention
was more focused on the means by
which the man had reached his con-
illusions rather than on the use OF
them he had made
The story was told three times by
its chief actor; once to the news
papers, once to the capitalists from
whom he demanded the promised re-
ward, and once to the Warfords
This last account was the more de-
tailed and interesting.
1t was of a late afternoon again.
The lamps were lighted, and tea was
forward Helen was manipulating
the cups, Jack was standing ready
to pass them. Mr.. and Mrs. Warford
sat in the background listening, and
barrow lounged gracefully in front
of the fire.
From the beginning!" Helen was
commanding him, land expect in
terruptions.'
We'll" began barrow, ITS lit
tie difficult to get started. But let's
begin with the phenomena them
selves. I've told you before, how,
when l was in Jail, I worked out their
nature and the fact that they must
draw their power from some source
that could be exhausted or emptied.
You have read Eldridge's reasoning
as to why he thought Monsieur X
was at a distance and on a height.
He took as the basis of his reason
inG one fact in connection with the
wireless messages we were receiving
that they were faint, and therefore
presumably far distant or sent by a
weak battery. He neglected, or
passed over as an important item of
tuning, the further fact that the in
strument in the Atlas building was
the only instrument to receive Mon
seur KS messages.
Now, that fact might be ex-
planned either on the very probable
supposition that our receiving instru-
ment happened in what we may call
it's undertones to be the only one
tuned to the sending instrument of
Monsieur X; or it might be because
our instrument was nearer Monsieur
KS instrument than any other. This
was unlikely because of the quality
of the sound-it sounded to the ex-
pert operator as though it came from
distance. Nevertheless, it was a
possibility. Taken by itself, it was
not nearly so good a possibility as
the other. Therefore, Eldridge chose
| the other.
There were a number of other
strictly scientific considerations of
equal Importance. / do not hesitate
to say that if l had been influenced
only by the scientific considerations,
I should have followed Eldridges lead
without the slightest hesitation. But
as / told him at the time. man
must have imagination and human
sympathy to get next to this sort OF
| thing.
Leaving all science aside, for thu
moment, what do we find in the mes
sages to Mccarthy? First, a COM
mand to leave within a specified and
brief period; second, a threat in
case of disobedience. That threat
was always carried out"
Darrow turned to Mrs Warford.
with your permission, l should
like to smoke" said he. Il can fol.
low my thought better"
by all means" accorded the lady
barrow lighted his cigarette, puffet
a moment, and then continued:
For instance, at 3 O'Clock he
threatens to send sign unless Nc.
Carthy leaves town by 6. = Mccarthy
does not leave town Promptly al
6 the sign comes. What do you
make of it?"