The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-29

ooedience. That threat was Always Car
ried out"
barrow turned to Mrs. Warford
with your permission, should ike
TO smoke" said he. Il can follow my
thought better"
"By all means" accorded the lady.
Darrow lighted his cigarette, pulled
a moment, and continued:
For instance, at 3 o'clock he threat
ems to send a sign unless Mccarthy
leaves town BY six. Mccarthy does not
leave town. Promptly at SIX the sign
comes. What do you make OF It
Nobody stirred. :.
why" resumed barrow, how, II
Monsieur X was hundred miles or so
away, as Eldridge figured, did ne know
that Mccarthy had not obeyed him!
We must suppose, from the probable
fact of that knowledge, that either
Monsieur X had an accomplice who
was keeping him informed, or he must
be near enough to get the information
himself"
There is third possibility broke
in Jack. Monsieur X might have sent
along his sign at 6 o'clock, dnyhosr,
just for general results"
barrow nodded his approval
Good boy, Jack" said he. That IS
just the point | could not be sure
about But finally, at the time, you VIII
remember, when / predicted McCar-
thy's disappearance, Monsieur \ made
a definite threat. He said" observed
barrow, consulting one OF the bundle
of papers he held in his hand:
My patience is at an end. Your
last warning will be sent you at $50
this morning. II you do not sail on
the Celtic at noon, / shall strike, and
so forth. The Celtic sailed at noon,
without Mccarthy. At 80 came the
first message TO the people calling on
them to deliver up the traitor that IS
among YOU How did Monsieur X
know that Mccarthy had not sailed on
the Celtic? The answer is now I'M
avoidable: either an accomplice must
have sent him word to that effect, or
he must have determined the fact for
himself
Il eliminated the hypothesis of an
accomplice on The arbitrary grounds OF
plain common sense. They don't grow
two such crazy men at once; and one
crazy man is naturally too suspicious
to hire help. / took it for granted.
Had to make a guess somewhere; but,
contrary to our legal friends, | believe
that enough condolences indicate a.
certainty. But If Monsieur X himself
saw the Celtic sail without Mccarthy,
and got back to his instrument within
a half hour, il was evident he could
not be quite so far away as Eldridge
and the rest OF them thought.
t.
wondered what you whispered to Sim
mons TO induce him to pass those mes
sages over to you. Mind telling
Not a bit Simmons is an excep-
tional man. He has nerve and intelli-
gence. l just pointed out to him the
possibility that Monsieur \ might have
control over heat vibrations. He saw
the public danger at once, and real
lied that McCarthy's private rights in
those messages suddenly become very
small"
lack nodded. Go ahead" said he.
Il had already" proceeded barrow,
found out where the next wireless
station is located. Monsieur Y must be
nearer the Atlas station than to this
other 1t was, therefore, easy to draw
a comparatively small circle within
which he must be located"
so far, so good" said Helen. How
did YOU finally come to the conclusion
that Monsieur Y was in the next Of
fce?"
DO you remember barrow asked
Jack, how the curtain of darkness
hung about ten or twelve feet inside
the corridor of the Atlas Building"
"Sure" renIied lack
And do you remember that while
the rest of YOU. including Eldridge, |
were occupied rather childishly with
the spectacular side of it. / had dis
appeared inside the blackness;"
Certainly"
well, in that time / determined the |
exact extent of the phenomena. l
found that it extended in rough cir
Gle. And when | went outside and
looked up-something every one else
was apparently too busy to dol saw
that this 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 dimensions. |
Then here is another point; when the
city-wide phenomena took place, again
determined their extent To do so
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
1t occurred to nobody to
connect these points with pencil line.
If that line is made curved, instead of
straight. it will be found to constitute
a complete circle whose centers is the
Atlas Building"
The audience broke into exclama-
tons
Going back to my former impress
sions, | remembered that the pail of
blackness extended this far and that
far in the various directions, so it re-
quired not much imagination to Wis
ualize it as a sphere of darkness. And
strangely enough the center 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 radi-
ated in all directions through the ether
from their sending instrument.
Next / called upon the janitor of
he Atlas Building, representing myself
az 1ookinp for suitable office from