Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-20
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
Percy barrow, a young scientist in
search of a job, enters the office OF
Boss Mccarthy, of New York, who
has been threatened by an anonymous
message ordering him to flee for
Europe. Mccarthy does not take the
message seriously. The next morn
ing Mccarthy receives another mes
sage that unless he leave New York
Immediately a sign Will be sent him
at 6. Immediately at the entire
electrical apparatus in New. York Is
cut off. Mccarthy gets another Wire
less. The town is darkened and all
hearing is suspended. DR.. Eldridge Is
free the city. barrow has the desire
to get the credit. Mccarthy has dis
appeared, but evidently has not left
New York. The unknown threatens to
wipe out the city. barrow fears that
this will be an attempt to cut off
heat, in which case all in the zone
Will be frozen to death. The city
grows more and more terrified; many
leave,
The mayor and his council are
frozen. to death while in the midst of
message. comes from the unknown
announcing certain deaths in three
hours. barrow announces that II is
now time to act. At this moment OAR
Cling old man with the fiery eyes of
maniac. Let me present to you the
UNKNOWN The proof they Glamour.
The proof said he, is that you are
clock strikes 6. Where did YOU find
him?" He was in the office next
door," When three hours before Oar
row said that 1T was time to act he
had gone into the room next door,
grappled with the old man and de-
stroyed the machine. but does not say
anything about II at that time
CONTINUED from Yesterday
We'll, in that time I determined the
exact extent of the phenomena.
found that it extended in a rough cir
Gle. And when l went outside and
looked up-something every one else
was apparently too busy to dol saw
that the phenomenon of darkness also
extended above the building. out into
open space. At the moment noted
the fact merely, and tried to fix in
my own mind approximately the d.
mansions. Then here is another
point, when the city-wide phenomena
took place, I again determined their
extent. To do SO l did not have to
leave my chair. The papers did it
for me. They took pains to establish
the farthest 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, Flatbush, Morrisania,
Fort Lee, Bay Ridge as the farthest
points at which the phenomena were
manifested. 1t occurred to nobody to
connect these points with a pencil
line. If that line is made curved, in
stead of straight. it will be found to
constitute a complete circle whose
centre is the Atlas building!"
The audience broke into exclama-
lions.
Going back to my former impress
sions. | remembered that the pail of
blackness extended this far and that
far in the various directions, SO that
it required not much imagination to
visualize it as a sphere of darkness
And strangely enough the centre of
that sphere seemed to be located
somewhere near the floor on which
were installed the United Wireless
instruments. 1t at once became
probable that what we may call the
multiplying impulses radiated in all
directions through the ether from
their sending instrument.
Next / called upon the janitor of
the Atlas building, representing my
self as looking for a suitable office
from which to conduct my investi-
cations. In this manner l gained adj
mission to all unrented offices. All
were empty l then asked after the
one next door, but was told it was
Il
trio gentleman now away on his
travels. That was enough. l now
knew that we had to do with a man
next door, and not miles distant, as
purely scientific reasoning would
seem to prove"
But Professor Eldridge's expert
ments-' began Jack.
81 am coming to that" interrupted
barrow i" 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 weaken
ings of the current. In fact, as
merely the thickness of a roof sepa-
rated his receiving instrument from
the wires from which the messages
were sent, it 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 a tremendous
crash, anyway, and he probably read
it by sound through the wall"
But at about the fifty-miles limit
Of sending we lost him. objected
Jack.
| You mean at about o'clock in the
morning" amended barrow.
"Eh? Yes, it was about Q But
how did he get on to what Eldridgt
was doing?"
He read it in the paper" replied
barrow. AT IL the reporters left
At little before 2 our enterprisinl
friend, the Despatch, issued an extra
in its usual praiseworthy effort t,
enlighten the late Broadway jag
Monsieur x read it, and knew exactl.
what was up.
How do you know"
Because l read the extra myself
But even them"
Then he began to pay more atten
ton. 1t was easy enough to fax
when he knew what was doing. Fo
, all | know. he could hear Eldridg
giving his directions"