Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-01
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| about the immense destruction Of
value-not to us, so greatly, for our
stocks of precious stones are not
large; but the thing meant, practi-
cally, wiping out all the assembled
wealth Of Asia except the actual
earth and its structures.
Put the thing some other way
and consider it. Suppose we should
suddenly discover that pure gold
could be produced by treating COM
mon yellow clay with sulphuric
acid, or that some genius should set
up a machine on the border of the
Sahara that received sand at n
end and turned out sacked wheat
at the otheri What. then, would
/ our boarded gold be worth, or the
wheat-lands of Australia, Canada
or our Northwest?
The illustrations are fantastic.
But the thing Rodman was after
was a practical fact. He had it on
the way. Giovanni and Lord Bay
less Truxley vert convinced that
the man would work out the for
mulae. They tried over their sig
! natures, to the world for 1t.
The whole of Asia was appalled,.
The rajahs OF the native states in
India prepared a memorial and sent
It to the British government
The thing came out after the
mysterious, Incredible tragedy. ]
should not have written that final
sentence. I want you to think, just
now, about the great bulk of a man
that sat in his big chair beyond me
at the window.
1t was like Rodman to turn up
with an outlandish human creature
attending him hand and foot. How
the thing came about reads like a
lie; it reads like the widest lie that
anybody ever put forward to ex-
plain a big yellow Oriental follow
ing II about.
But it was no lie. You could think
up a lie to equal the actual things
that happened to Rodman. Take the
way he died! 49,.
The thing began in India. Rod
man had gone there to consult with
the Marchese Giovanni concerning
some molecular theory that was in
volved in his formulas. Giovanni
was digging up a buried temple on
the northern border of the Punjab.
One night, in the explorers tent,
near the excavations, this inscrut-
able creature walked in on Rodman.
No one knew how he got into the
tent or where he came from.
Giovanni told about it. The tent
flap simply opened, and the big
Oriental appeared. He had some
thing under his arm rolled UP in 4
prayer-carpet. He gave no atten-
ton to Giovanni, but he salaamed
like a coolie to the little American.
Master" he said, you were hard
to find. L have looked yer the
world for you"
And he squatted down on the
dirty floor by Rodman's camp stool.
The two men spent the remainder
of the night looking at the present
that the creature brought Rodman
in his pr~ayer-carpet. They wanted
to know where the Oriental got it,
and that's how the story came out.
He "a something, searcher seems
u nearest English word to tin
the great Shan Monastery on the
southeastern plateau of the Cobb.
He was looking for Rodman be-
cause he had tho light-here was
another word that the two men
could find no term In any modern
language to translate: a little flame
raj the literal meaning.
The present was from the treas
ure-room OF the monastery; the
very carpet AROUND IL, SAID
was worth twenty thousand lire.
There vas another thing that came
out in the talk that Giovanni after
ward recalled. Rodman was to ac-
cept the present and the man who
brought it to him. The Oriental
would protect him, in every way, in
every direction, from things visible
and invisible. He made quite a
speech about it. But there was one
thing from which he could not pro.
tect him.
The Oriental used a lot OF his an
Client words to explain, and he did
not get it very clear. He seemed to
mean that the creative forces of the
spirit would not tolerate a division
Of worship with the creative forces
of the body-the celibate notion in
the monastic idea.
Giovanni thought Rodman did
not understand it; he thought he
himself understood it better. The
monk was pledging Rodman to a
high virtue, in the lapse of which
something awful was sure to hap
pen.
Giovanni wrote a letter to the
State Department when he learned
what had happened to Rodman. The