Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-03
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to that effect, or he must have deter
mined the fact for himself
II eliminated the hypothesis of an
accomplice on the arbitrary grounds
of plain common sense. They don't
grow two such crazy men ut once:
and one crazy man Is naturally too
suspicious to hire help took 1t
for granted Had to make q guess
somewhere; but contrary to our legal
friends, believe that enough coinci-
dences indicate certainty. But II
Monsieur X himself saw the Celtic sail
without Mccarthy, and got back to his
instrument within hAlf-hOur, It was
evident he could not Be quito so far
away as Eldridge and the rest OF them
thought"
"One thing" spoke up Jack, II often
wondered what you whispered to Sim
mons to induce him to pass those mes
sages over to you. Mind telfingY y
"Not a bit. Simmons II an excep-
tional man. He has nerve and intelli-
gence Just pointed out to him the
possibility that Monsieur X might
have control over heat vibrations. He
saw the public danger ut once, and
realized that McCarthy's private rights
Ill JuOS0 M0bCU6oS uou oSAu0AAy w
come very small"
Jack nodded. go ahead" said he.
ri had already" proceeded barrow,
found out whore the next wireless
station is located. Monsieur x must
be nearer the Atlas station than to this
other. It was, therefore, easy to draw
la comparatively small circle within
which he must be located"
so far, 80 good said Helen. How
did you finally come to tho conclusion
that Monsieur X was IN the next Of
|fice?"
"Do you remember" Darrow asked
Jack, chow the curtain OF darkness
hung about ten or twelve feet inside
corridor of the Atlas Building?"
Sure" replied Jack.
"And do you remember that while
the rest Of you, including Ehndge.
were occupied rather childishly with
tho spectacular side OF 1t, l had dis
appeared inside the blackness? p
Certainly"
"Well. In that time determined
the exact extent Of the phenomena.
| I found that 1t extended In q rough
circle And when went outside and
looked up-something every one else
was apparently too busy to- do saw
that this phenomena OF darkness also
extended above the building, out into
! open space At the moment noted
the fact merely, and tried to ix in my
] own mind approximately the dimen-
siohs. Then here Is another point:
when the city.wide phenomena took
place, / again determined their OK
tent. To do so Iidid not haveito leave
my chair. The papers did 1t for me.
They.itook pains to establish the
lfarthest points TO which these modern
plaques Of Manhattan reached"
barrow selected several clippings
from his bundle Of papers.
Here are reports indicating High
bridge, Corona, F1atbush, Morrisania,
Fort Lee, Bay Ridge rs the farthest
points at which the phenomena were
manifested. It occurred to nobody to
connect these points with a pencil
line. II that line 10 made curved, In
stead OF straight, 1t will be found to
constitute acomplete circle whose CEN
ter is the Atlas Building!"
"Going back to my former impress
sions, 1 remembered that the pail OF
blackness extended this far in the
various directions, SO that 1t required
not much imagination to visualize It
as sphere Of darkness And strange
l. y enough the center of that sphere
seemed to be located somewhere near
the floor on which were installed the
United Wireless instruments. It at
once became probable that what we
may call the multiplying impulses radi-
ated in all directions through the ether
from their sending instruments.
Next called upon the janitor OF
the Atlas Building, representing my
self as looking for q suitable Office
from which to conduct my investiga-
lions. In this manner gained admis!
sion to all unrented. ofiices. All were
empty. then asked after the one next
door, but was told It was rented as
storeroom by an eccentric gentleman
now away on his travels That was
enough. now knew that we had to
do with man next door, and not miles
distant, as purely scientific reasoning
would seem to prove"
sBut Professor Eldridge's expert
ments-" began Jack.
Il am coming to that interrupted
barrow. when Eldridge began to
call up Monsieur X, that gentleman
answered without a thought Of sus-
picion; nor was he even aware Of the
very ingenious successive weakenings
i Of the current. In fact, as merely the
thickness Of a roof separated his re-
Iceiving instrument from the wires
from which the messages were sent, 1t
is probable that Eldridge might have
weakened his current down practically
to nihil, and still Monsieur x would
have continued to get his message"
"Wouldn't he have noticed the send
!; ing getting weaker" asked Jack
shreWdly.
| "Not until the very last. Our send
ing must have made q tremendous
crash, anyway, and he probably read 1t
| by, sound through the wall"
| rBut at about the ffty-mile limit Of
sending we lost him." objected Jack.
"You mean at about two o'clock tn
the morning" amended barrow.
"Eh? Yes, It was about two. But
how did he get on to what Eldridge
was doing?",
"He read It in the paper" replied
1Darrow. "At-.twelve the reporters
liza AZ a l(tf1e before two orr enter.