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sins. “We'll feel better in the open.”
Before they could step out of the
The United States is about to go to| door, a messenger came in.
war with a foreign nation. The em-
ployes of the government power sta-
tion which supplied Washington and
New York with electricity for light,
heat and power, are expecting orders |
to supply heavier current. Atsins, an
electrician at the station obtains leave
to place an invention of his before the
head of the United States Army at
Washington, He obtains an interview
with the General who is favorably im-
pressed with the annihilating appara.
tus and gives directions for its instal
lation under the supervision of its in-
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Chapter III
To the surprise of the nation, Con-
gress held back during the day, a nar-
row fringe of conservative members
standing between the country and
war. The news service, which had
picked up again and was voluminous
and detailed once more, still carried
the prediction that war was inevitable
and could be only delayed.
Meanwhile the stolid helplessness t
the War Department, which had blan-
- keted even the energetic efforts of the
department chiefs to do the best they
could at the eleventh hour, had giver
away to a feverish activity extending
even to departments unaware of th
purpose.
Atsins had taken a fast express ship
back to Susquehanna, returning at top
sneed with the concentrator, the plans
of which he had shown Shod and Mon-
trus, and which, many months before,
he had constructed.
Shod had his orders regarding
power, orders which carried a sig
nificance to him but to none other at
the power station.
At No. 10 Sending Station, Atsins,
with an army of electricians and
mechanics under him, worked at nerve
racking speed during the day. Mon-
trus, possessed by a devil of im-
patience, foreboding, and fear, could
not contain himself either in the office
or at the station,
The work progressed; the death
dealing concentrator went into place;
| has left Kiel,
|send electrographs, send them;
“Curtis reports,” he said. “The fleet
He will send location.”
“Tell Curtis,” said Montrus speaking
| low-voiced, “that the outcome of this
war depends on him.
cation.
Ve want the lo
We must have it. If he can
but
first the location.”
With Atsins, he walked out into the
night. The sky was black. The air
was heavy and wet, A gentle drizzle
was starting.
The two
breaths, and then turned to each other,
Neither spoke, but each held out his
hand. One close grasp, and they
parted, Atsins for the sending station,
Montrus for the tower,
When the latter stepped off the ele-
vator at the top, he found two assist-
nts busy with the reflector. Far away
i the drizzle were the lights of Wash-
ington and the Capitol.
nothing new.
“layed by members who insisted on
explaining their votes, notwithstand-
i _ that they and the others had reach-
ed the limits of human endurance. He
glan-e/ at the other board, which
woul¢ give him in duplicate any word
tha. migh’ come from Curtis. It was
blank; but as he looked, it flashed out
with
“5623017 N. 05334. 9E.”
“We've gou i ” he almost gasped;
and then he turned to the assistants,
jerking out his commands:
“Ready there. We ought to get some-
thing from Curtis in a moment. Tell
the Capitol we must have instant no-
tice of the declaration.”
At another televue he got Atsins at
Sending Station No, 10.
There they also had a duplicate of
Curtis’ message giving the longitude
and latitude of the hostilg, fleet.
“Ready?” asked the general.
“Ready,” said the electrician.
Montrus enveloped his head in the
hood at the reflector—hardly a necessi-
ty, so black was the night,
Atlantic, day had broken, and Curtis

had the light he needed in his electro-

DESTRUCTION OF THE GREAT GERMAN AIR FLEET,
reinforcement was added to every de
tail of the station; Ils capacity was
increased to the limits of possibility.
Night had come and was advancing.
Still Congress held to its tense debate.
Ten o'clock came; and Atsins sought
Montrus, finding him nervously pacing
back and forth in his office, The young
electrician was calm and charged with
quiet confidence.
“If we can get thelr location, they
will not leave,” he said. “Maybe you
cannot furnish it?”
“We can if we can get Curtis again,”
said Montrus. “What if we can’t?”
“Then we shall have to take them
when we get it,” replied Atsins, “It
would be safer to annihilate them be
fore they start.”
«pry for Curtis azain,” ordered the
general, turning to the aide In the
photography and transmission. Some-
where above the hostile fleet, Montrus
knew, the scout hung precariously in
a position to send not only informa-
tion but a continuous reflection of the
movements of the airships. He might
be discovered, but that was the hazard
of his occupation. If he were well
concealed by distance, and out of the
path of the enemies’ scouts, he would
win out, If otherwise, he at least had
done his duty to the best of his ability.
‘With one finger on a button which
would give the signal to Atsins, the
general waited word from the Capitol.
Sixty seconds after the vote had been
taken and war declared, the world
would know it, The hostile fleet would
know it almost as soon as Montrus. It
tha' the enemy had waited the formal
beginning of hostilities,

room. They waited for an answer,
which came back presently, The ope
rator at the Sending Station No. 5 re
ported that his efforts were not sue
cessful, and he advised against many
repetitions.
“It endangers him,” he said.
will report when he can.”
With nothing to do but wait, in
nervous tension, they saw the hours
Then came & bulletin
“He
other across the reflector;
forms appeared and disappeared
growing
he had the picture again,
men took a few deep]
The general |
glanced at the bulletin, but it told him |
The roll-call was being |
Across the |
was in the arrogance of superior force
Ripples of light wefe chasing each
shadowy
in
vapors and fr~s, Then came an outline
distinet, and presently
Outside the hood was the black,
through the hood:
War's declared.”
The general twitched with suppress
ed excitement. For a moment longer,
he watched the picture in the reflector.
Then he saw that the fleet had” the
news. Across the Atlantic the in-
stantaneous service had carried the de-
claration of war.
Far below him was the chief city of
his nation, now subdued in the know-
ledge that it and the nation had been
brought to the final test. In the send-
ing station was the man on whom his
nation’s hopes depended. He firmly
pressed the button.
In the reflector he saw the enemy's
squadron move. He knew that it had
been:in readiness to start, and on the
instant of the receipt of the tidings
was setting forth. If it came unmo-
lested, as it had every right to expect
it would, there could be but one result
to his nation.
It seemed an eternity of time as he
watched the reflector.
Suddenly one of the ships disap
peared in a blotch which sent confused
Montrus
“Here's the flash.
| shadows over the reflector.
trembled in his excitement.
The pictures grew clear for an in-
stant. Then another blur—a quick
succession of blurs, between which he
could see nothing.
He grew dizzy, and held tightly to
the supports of the reflector to steady
himself. His unblinking eyes were so
held by the grim, silent chaos of de-
struction portrayed before him, that
the seeing faculty seemed a thing apart
from him and separated completely by
his dazed condition.
| The tumultuous heaving and blur-
[ring on the reflector cleared away. It
| revealed a torn and shattered fleet—
| two-thirds of the ships had vanished
| completely, others beating feebly and
{in their last efforts, others slowly
sinking through the air, a few trying
to escape from an unseen terror,
General Montrus, veteran though he
was, shuddered at the horror of the
sight. Unseen, unheard, softly through
[the thick darkness, the wireless death
| had swept that proud aerial fleet out
| of existence in one tense instant. And
Atsins, the shock-headed youth, was
| the destroyer, sitting calmly up there
in the sending station, with one soiled
{hand on the lever of his great, terrible
| concentrator. It was he who had uti
lized the means formerly used to send
messages, to bear intelligence across
boundless areas, which, increased a
{hundred thousand-fold in voltage, had
now carried abeolute destruction.
Still breathing heavily, Montrus
threw off the hood, coming back to the
utter blackness and the drizzle of the
Washington night.
A bulletin was flashed on the board
[which carried the duplicates from |
Curtis. |
“Fleet gone—Vanished in Convul- |
sion—Pictures Actual and Accurate |
Disturbance not caused by defects but |
by destruction of fleet—Can’t explain |
it, but America is saved.”
Montrus turned the wireless televue |
on to the sending station, and saw At: |
sins sitting quietly on a box in one
corner of the little room, gravely
smoking a short pipe, his shock of
blonde hair badly rumpled, a smile on
his freckled face. ‘“Atsins”—the com-
mander-in-chief was trying hard to con
trol his voice—Atsins. You have saved
us. It is all over. Their fleet was an-
nihilated.”
It seemed to the old soldier, veteran
of a dozen campaigns, absurdly impos
sible that the safety of a great nation
should have been put into the hands
of that grimly boy in blue overalls.
“it worked all right, didn't it?” At-
sins answered calmly.
“Come over here,” Montrus went on
“Hurry and come, To-morrow Con
gresg’ll be giving you a vote of thanks;
you'll be a bigger man than old Dewey
ever was.”
A troubled frown came on Atsin’e
face. “Excuse me, please, general,” he
said. “I‘m going back to the shop,
I've just thought of a big improvement
on my concentrator. Good night.”
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Having settled this little business of |
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six thousand feet above Taingan-fu. |
The road leading to it is the best in all
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the city walls stands a large gate amid
the ruins of a once flourishing suburb.

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There had been mone from the start
and yet, now that the moment
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The vote was about to
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drizzling night; inside, the face of the
reflector was glowing with a picture
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the sun and of a fleet of airships lan-
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