White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-04
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EDWARD MALONE. n-swspapss maA. 10
- IN love with Gladys Hungerton. She
tells him the mar she loves must do some
brave act Malone gets an assignment to
Interview Professor Challenger. explorer.
When Challenger and Malone meet chai-
lsnger proclaims Malone an impostor. and
they have a fierce personal encounter.
challenger expresses a liking for Ma
lone when the latter refuses to have him
show Malone proofs Of q prehistoric land.
Then, for heavens sake, man, write
II upr'
I'm longing to. but all I know he
CAV me In confidence and on condi-
ton hat | didn't" l condensed into
a few sentences the professors narra-
tive. That's how II stands"
McArdle looked deeply i~ncredulous.
"Well. Mr.. Malone" he said at last.
''about this scientific meeting tonight
There can be no privacy about that,
anyhow. l don't suppose n paper
will want to report It, for Waldron has
been reported already a dozen times,
and no one Is aware that Challenger
will speak. We may get a scoop IL we
are lucky. You'll be there In any case.
so you'll just give us a pretty full re-
port. I'll keep space up to midnight"
When | met Tarp Henry at the Saw
age club he was skeptical In the ex
IRENE. but he promised to come to the
meeting.
When we arrived Mt the hall we
found a much greater concourse than
i had expected. A line OF electric
broughams discharged their little car-
goes of white bearded professors,
while the dark stream of humber pc
destrfans who crowded through the
arched doorway showed that the audi
ence would be popular as well as SCI
entific. Indeed. II became evident to
us as soon ms we had taken our seats
that a youthful and even boyish spirit
was abroad In the gallery and the back
portions of the hall. Looking behind
me, l could see rows of faces of the
parently the great hospitals had each
sent down their contingent. There
was a great demonstration on the en-
trance Of Professor Challenger when
he passed down to take his place at
the extreme end OF the front row Of
the platform. Such a yell of welcome
broke forth when his black beard first
protruded round the corner that l be-
a to suspect Tarp Henry was right
In his surmise and that this assem-
blage was there not merely for the
sake of the lecture. but because II had
got rum0red abroad that the famous
professor would take part in the pro-
ceedings.
There was some sympathetic laugh
ter on his entrance among the front
benches of well dressed spectators as
though the demonstration of the stu
dents In this instance was not unwel-
come to them. That greeting was. in
deed, n ~frightful outburst of sound. the
uproar of the carnivora cage when the
step of the bucket bearing keeper is
heard In the distance. There was an
offensive tone In 1t. perhaps, and yet In
the main II struck me as mere riotous
cutlery. the noisy reception Of one who
amused and interested them, rather
than Of one they disliked or despised.
Challenger smiled with weary and toll
Grant contempt, as a kindly man would
meet the yapping OF a litter of pup
pies. He sat slowly down, blew out
his chest, passed his hand caresslngly
down his beard and looked with droop-
ing eyelids and supercilious eyes at the
crowded hall before him. The uproar
of his advent had not yet died away
when Professor Ronald Murray, the
chairman, and Mr.. Waldron, the lee