Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-11-30

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Hendron called some Of the men who
had been taking Tony's commands and
had him carried bodily to bed.
Tony opened his eyes. One by one
he collected all the dIsjointed mem
cries Of the past days. He perceived
that he was lying on a couch in Hen
dron's Offices in the west end Of the
machine shop and laboratory building.
A slight noise in one corner Of the
room attracted his attention. A man
sat there at desk quietly scrIbbling.
tall, very thin man. with dark curly
hair and long-lashed blue eyes. His
age might have been thirty-tlve-or
ffty. He had a remarkably high fore
head and slim, tactile hands. He
smiled at Tony. and spoke with a trace
Of accent .
Good morning. Mr.. Drake. It is
not necessary to ask If you slept we'll"
Tony swung his feet onto the floor.
ayes. l think ! did sleep well. We
haven't met, have WEI"
The other man shook his head. "No
we haven't; but I've heard about you.
l am Sven Bronson"
Good Lord" Tony walked across
the room and held out his hand. I'm
surely delighted to meet the man
u,bnu ha havftafad
The Scandinavian smiled. "You
were going to say, the man RESPONSE
BILE for nil this.
Tony chuckled. shook Bronson's
hand. and then looked down at the
bedraggled garments which only par
TALLY covered him. i've got to find
some clothes and get shaved"
ITS all been prepared" Bronson
said. "In the private office there's a
bath of sorts ready for you, and some
clean clothes and razor"
Somebody has taken terribly good
care Of me-" Tony said. He yawned
and stretched. II feel fine" At the
door he hesitated. whats the news.
by the wayG How are thlngs1 How Is
everybody
Bronson tar I'd his desk with his
pencil Everybody is doing nicely.
There are only a dozen people left in
the hospital now. Your friend Taylor
has the eommissary completely re-
habilitated. The spot on which we
now reside was very considerably
raised last week 1t has apparently
been lifted again. together with no
one knows how much surrounding ter
rItory. The radio station has been
functioning again
"Good Lordl" Tony exclaime.. II
forgot nll about the radio station last
night--what day is this?"
"This is the twenty-ninth." Tony
realized that he had been asleep for
twenty-four hours. "The man In the
wireless division went to work on the
station Immediately. Anyway. not
much has come in. though we picked
up station in New Mexico, and n
very feeble station somewhere In Ohio.
The New Mexico station reports some
sort of extraordinary phenomena. to-
gether with violent eruption of
volcanic nature In their district; the
one in Ohio merely appealed steadily
for help"
"Only tN- stations in all this coun-
try?" Tony said
1.-THE static is so tremendous still
that it would be impossible to hear
anything from any foreign country;
and doubtless other stations are work
ing which we viii pick up later, as
well as many which will be recondl-
toned in the future; hut so far we
have received only two calls"
Aftera having hRthed. shavoN and
dressa N his own clothes, which mad
been brought from his quarters In the
partly demolished mems dormitory,
Tony went 10 the laboratories and
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