Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-25

ages From them he took a thin steel
rod. which he set up in the center q the
and to the frame what looked like four
reversed megaphones. Attached to the
frame. which was tubular. was an oak
box with a little arrangement of hard RIB
Der and metal which fitted into the ears.
For some time Kennedys fact wore set.
far-away expression. as II he were study
ing something.
"The explosions seem always to occur
in the middle Of the afternoon" observed
Macleod, fidgeting apprehensiycly
Kennedy motioned petulantly for silence;
Then suddenly he pulled the tubes out OF
his ears and gazed about sharplv.
There's something in the arr he cried.
Il can hear it
Macleod and 1 strained our eyas. There
was nothing visible.
This is an anti-aircraft listening post,
such as the French use" explained Craig,
hurriedly Between the horns and the
microphone in the box you can catch the
fed. If there's an aeroplane or Yep
pelin about. this thing would locate IL"
Still, there was nothing that we
could see. though now the sound was
strained his attention bit. l listened
1t was plain in the detector; yet moth
ing was visible. What strange power
could it be that we could not see or
feel in broad daylight?
Just then came low rumbling. and
of the plant. We swung about in time
to see huge cloud of debris lifted lit
orally into the air above the tree tops
and dropped to earth again. The silence
that succeeded the explosion was elo-
quent. The phantom destroyer had de-
livered his blow again.
1.-THE distiilery-where we make the
denatured alcohol cried Macleod
gazing with tense face as from other
buildings we could see men pouring
Nrfh moi q {
punctured by shouts. Kennedy bent
over his detector.
That same mysterious buzzing," he
muttered. only fainter"
Together we FASTENED now toward
the distillery, another of those cor
rugated iron buildings. 1t had beer
completely demolished. Here and there
lay a dark. still mass. | shuddered
They were men.
AS we ran toward the ruin we crossed
a base ball field which the company
had given the men. l looked back for
Kennedy. He had paused at the wire
backstop behind the catcher. Some
thing caught in the wires interested
him. BY the time l reached him he had
secured it-a long, slender metal tube
cleverly weighted so as to fall straight
Not a hundred per cent of hits, evil
IDENTIFY" he muttered. Still, one was
enough
What is it?" asked Macleod.
IAN incendiary pastille. On contact
the nose burns away anything 1t hits
1t goes right through corrugated iron. II
carries a charge of thermit ignited by
this piece of magnesium ribbon. Iou
know what thermit will penetrate with
its thousands of degrees of heat. Only
the nose of this went through the net
ting and never touched a thing. This
didn't explode anything, but another
one did. Thousands of gallons of al
cohol did the rest"
Kennedy had picked up his othe,
package as we ran and was now busily
unwrapping It, / looked about at the
crowd that had collected and saw that
there was nothing we could do to help
Once / caught sight of Gertrude's face
She was pale and seemed eagerly
searching for some one. Then, in the
crowd, I lost her. l turned to Mac
Leod He was plainly overwhelmed
Kennedy was grinlly silent and al
work on something he had damned into
the ground.
STAND back" he cautioned. as he
touched match to the thing. With a
mufhed explosion. something ~hizzed
and shrieked up into the air like q
skyrocket
Far above ! could now see thing
open out like a parachute, while be-
low it trailed something that might
have been the stick of the rocket
Eagerly Kennedy followed the para
chute as the wind waited it along and
it sank slowly to the earth. When, al
last. he recovered it. saw that be-
tween the parachute and the stick was
fastened small. peculiar camera.
"A Scheimpfiug multiple camera" he
explained, as he seized it almost raw
enously. us there place in town
where l can get the films in this de.
veloped quickly"
Macleod. himself excited now, hur.
ried US from the scene of the explosion
to local drug store, which combined
most of the functions of general
store. even being able to improvise a
darkroom in which Kennedy could
work.
1t was some time after the excite
ment over the exclusion had uuietet
down that Macleod and l. standing i'm.