The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-02-17
CHAPTER XIII.
How II All Was.

For his share in the foregoing Percy
barrow was extensively blamed. 1t
was universally conceded that his ac-
| ton in permitting Monsieur X to con-
tinue his activities up to the. danger
point was inexcusable The public
mind should have been treasured long
before. Much terror and physical suf-
fering might thus have been avoided
not to speak of financial loss Scien-
tific men, Furthermore, went frantic
over his unwarranted destruction of
the formulas. Percy barrow was va
riously 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 genuine altruism. Hal
! lowell, also, held persistently to this
| point, as far as his editors would per-
nit him, until at last, the public mind
, was somewhat calmed, attention was
more focused on, the means by which
the man had reached his conclusions
rather than on the use Of them he
| had made
The story was told three times by
| its chief actor: once to the newspa-
pers, once to the capitalists from whom
| he demanded the promised reward,
and once to the Warfords. This last
account was the more detailed and
| interesting.
! 1t was of 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 inter-
ruptions.''
WELL began Darrow, Its a little
difficult to get started. But let's be-
gin with the phenomena themselves.
I've told you before, how, when l was
in Jail, / worked out their nature and
the fact that they must draw their
exhausted or emptied. You have read
Eldridge's reasoning as to why he
| thought Monsieur x was ut a distance
and on a height. He took as the
basis of his reasoning one fact in con-
nection with the wireless messages
we were receiving-thai they were
faint, and therefore presumably far
distant or sent by weak battery He
neglected, or passed over as an inn
portant item of tuning, the further
fact that. the instrument in the Atlas
Building was the only instrument to
receive Monsieur KS messages.
! Now, that fact might be explained
either on the very probable supposi-
ton that our receiving instrument
happened in what we may call it's UNI
dertones to be the only one tuned to
the sending instrument of Monsieur
K; or it might be because our instru-
ment was nearer Monsieur KS iustru-
| ment than any other. This was I'M
likely because of the quality of the
sound-it sounded to the expert OPP
orator as though 1t came from a dis
lance. Nevertheless. 1t was a possi-
biiity Taken by itself. it was, not
nearly SO good a possibility as thu
other Therefore. Eldridge chose the
other
There were number of other
strictly scientific considerations OF
equal Importance. do not hesitate to
say that If had been influenced only
by the scientific considerations.
should have followed EIdridge's lead