THVKHDAY FEBRUARY 18, I92K
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reveeled to me the suitable answer
to one who claims she love« your
hooks,” sadly confessed Davenport.
Burton begun to chuckle, then to
luugh aloud.
"I'm thinking of the Joke on us,"
she explained, "of Dad. We thought
you were a garage mechanic!"
"And me with such gentlemanly
manners," he mourned, “and my dic­
tion, faulty as It 1«, yet observe» the
| rule« of gramincr."
I llu s t r a t io n s b y H e n r y J a y L ee
•'Your funny little car misled us.
Copyright S t e w a r t E d w a rd W h i t e
I suppose,” she explained, "and then
I you were so handy about everything.’
R x la a a e d t h r u .
P u h lla h a ra A u t o o a a t a r S e rv ic e
"You relieve me. The ear was the
' cheapest 1 could get for a pure expert-
, mi nt.”
"And the battery?"
"Caine to me Just like the story, a
men of the nucessury skill would have the frills. The frills represent
the grace and beauty of Ufe. We all \ little at a tlui«. I'm no mechanic.
cost."
"Gr ¡instead'« poker face was still have an Instinct for frills; and real 1 No one could be worse fitted than 1
doing business, but hla dgur butt was Instinct« should be gratified—In pro­ to be an Inventor, But I couldn't help
portion. But the point Is, frills are noticing from tlm« to time the Incred-
chewed to a frazzle.
too
hard to got. A living is too hard : lble amount of power everywhere go­
"You say that battery there will
ing to waate, and one day when I
run a brake test of forty horse to get. Heaven forbid we should ever was filling the startlug battery of my
get
anything
without
working
for
t.
power?" he asked.
¡that Is absolutely fatal. But there's car—I have got a car—tt struck me
"About that."
no sense In having to perform soul- what a nuisance tt »as. and 1 wonder-
"Will a larger battery develop more
<sl If we couldn’t get a battery that
deudcnlng ami «rinding toll for It."
horsepower In proportion? What are
"But what has the battery to do i would work on air.”
the limits In capacity?
I "And then yon figured It out."
with this?"
'T haven’t the slightest Idea There's
"1 did not,” he disclaimed. ‘‘I
"Why don't you see? Every Inven­
no limit apparently to the amount of
, merely kept It In mind, the way 1
tion
that
reduces
the
labor
necessary
static you can take by means of
do a story, and It worked out Its own
dynamos; why should there be any to produce things Is a step toward that plot, bit by bit. It took me some time
(
leisure
for
the
race.
It’s
a
step
to­
more limit to what you can take by
to tumble to the fact that the plates
other means? Of course, 1 don't ward supplying more drills, besides had to be Just exactly so far apart.
more
abu'dant
necessities,
with
the
know; I ni Just beginning to try It
But at last I got it to work
I same amount of labor.”
out." *
and to work hard for a long
■
With
vivid
sentence«
he
sketched
the
• Well, you may have something,
time.. One horrible thought occur­
though It sounds pretty radical." world as be suw It: u reorganize t red to me: that maybe it will only
world,
free
to
pul
its
energies
into
the
yawned GrlBistead. as though the sub
i positive creation of those things work near electric plants already la
Jed hud ceased to Interest him.
operation under the old methods.”
Burton hopped from the tog on which men's true Instincts crave; pro­
"Stealing what's already b e e n
ducing Its abundance by honest, sin­
which she sat.
made! I se e !”
cere,
necessary
labor,
but
accomplish­
"The moonlight Is heavenly," she
‘‘That's why I'm up in this wild
declared, "I must see it through Ute ing the production without the ex­ country, bag and bay gage. I’m going
haustion
of
squalor.
big trees. Will you go with me, Mr.
It was no imposalble Utopia; it was to find out. It set ms to be alright,
Davenport, outside the firelight?”
an
absurd dream of an impossible I though."
Davenport Jump‘-d to his feet. Gar­
"You don't know how I appreciate
diner too stirred as though about to "equality;" but It was a world of op-
your telling me all this, Mr. Daven-
i
port
unity
released
from
pressure.
rise, but paused as he felt Grlmstead'«
! Wbnt men did with the opportunity j port,” then said she.
restraining haud on his arm.
"1 told you my friends call me
The two young people stepped out would still be, as It had alwuys been.
Larry," he pointed out; then at her
,
a
mutter
for
themselves.
Into the enchantment of the forest.
But no longer would there be any slight withdrawal. "Now, really, look
CHAPTER X.
i reason or necessity for the submerg­ at me. Am I a Larry looking person
" T h e " L a rry D avenport
ence under Inexorable circumstance I or a Davenport looking person?',' He
They walked for 100 yards, feeling ' of the man whose hands reached to­ Socked his eye ¿omlcally in her direc­
their way In the black and white con­ ward the stars.
tion.
\
t
trasts of moonlight; then sat side by
"You're right—Larry.” said she.
That Is what he visioned; and that
side on a log.
CHAPTER XI.
i Is wbut Burton, kindling to his Ideas,
l"It Is almost too perfect," said saw too. And as she had not lived
In the morning the famous battery,
Burton. "It almost hurts. But 1 shall with the idea, ns had he, and was un­ lashed to the running board, had been
never forget It.”
accustomed to IL she wus the more i connected up with t ie self-starter
The began to chat, to make dis­ eagerly afire. *
; which was now turning over in the
jointed remarks, swinging back down t They sat silent for a time.
laborious and vociferous manner pe­
the wide arc of^ecstasy to the starting
"Tell me about yourself?" she said culiar to the species. Grlmstead and
point of everyday things. In a little suddenly.
Gardiner were inclined to stand and
while Davenport was talking eagwrlv,
"I was born of poor but honest par- watch It in fascination; but Daven­
openly. The subject was his battery. | tn ls and my friends call me Larry," port was quite unimpressed.
►
"It o t ig h to be tremendo»-’y valu­ he bqgnn.
i ‘'That's all thery is to It," said he.
able. You'll probably make a million
•'You’ee not the Lawrence Daven­ "Now all we have to watch out for
or so out of If. 1 hope you do,” the port?”. she gasped.
is that she doesn't run dry of lubrica­
girt said
.
“I'trf the only one I kflow about. tion. Simntlns can keep track of
"Yes. of course. I'd like to make There may be others 1 know not of; that.”
something out of It. But that Isn't the but be assured. O Lady, thut they are
He turned away,
• ’
real point. Do you mind If I talk a nothing b i l t spurious imitations."
‘‘Now we've got a good morning's
little about It?”
"Why, I've read nil your books and , work in front of us," he announced
•'Oh, please-" she begged.
' cheerfullv'. "I picked a good place for
I’ve Just lotn-d them-"
t
"Don't you see what It will mean
"Long am^puth nt stn ly has not yet
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to the world." he said, "the poor strug­
gling old world? What a burden It
does carry. Ixtrd. what a task It
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has assum«‘d Just In feeding Itself anil
clothing Itself and keeping Itself
warm And It has to hustle Just to
do that.”
He twisted on the log more nearly
to face her. "Ixwk here," he demand­
ed, "what Is the greatest material
need, the very greatest need of the
world?"
"Davenport's batteries," she replied
promptly.
He threw his rend hack nnd laugh­
ed boyishly.
"I was getting rather preachy,
wasn't I? Well, the thing the world
need« most Is breathlng’-tlme, time to
play more and Io soak up the things
O ur success lies in giving good optical service e n d
that never come to a man when he's
In a hurry or surrounded by the buzz-
doing it a little bit better.
files of detail. What the work-n«lay
world needs most Is leisure, a little
leisure.”
“The trouble Is," said Burton, »'peo­
ple are never satisfied. If they’d he
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and astonishes them first by saying
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Gardiner by predicting a rain storm.
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run a certain period of time on Its
battery. •
CHAPTER
IX .
A M arvelous Discovery
Grlmstrad put on hla poker face
to conceal his Inner excitement. This
offer was more than he had hoped
"I should like to very much." he
replied.
"So should I." spake up Burton,
•‘but I want to hear It In words of one
syllable."
"It Is not at all complicated Now
you know If you put a copper plain
and a xlnc plate side by aide In an
acid solution nnd connect theta with
wires you generate electricity. That
is the simple wet battery.
"All right
If you run a dynum.»
you alao generate electricity, thia
time by Induction.
• Where does thut electricity come
from? You might say chemical action
In the one case or mechanical action
in the other, hut they are actually
only a means to an end. The world
lies In a great field of static or Inert
magnetism. The cell nnd the dynamo
are merely meant by which thia Ineit
electrlcty I k livened up. made Into
kinetic or uctlve eletcrlctjr; they
actually produce nothing In them-
aelves. Is thnt d ear?”
"Perfectly." said Burton.
"When we have used thia kinetic
electricity, or It becomes 'grounded,'
it returns to the reservoir of static.
All I’ve done Is to make a short cut
between the static electricity In
which we are Immersed and the kin­
etic electricity we can use."
"Thnt Is self evident, young man,"
remarked Grlmstead drily.
■'I am Just milking It dear for Miss
Burton Go back to the wet cell. It
Is heavy and awkward and short lived
My battery Is Just like a wot cell with­
out those disadvantages. The wet cell
consists of two plates of different
metals In a solution Mine oonslsts of
two plates of different metals side by
side In air. The wet cell transforms
or produces Its electricity by or
through, a chemical action that Is
limited In effectiveness and In dura­
tion. My buttery transforms the
static from .the air Into kinetic with­
out chemical action—apparently; and
In much greater quantity In proportion
to the size of the plates."
Grlmstead was sitting up now In
his Interest.
"There must be chemical action!"
he cried., "You can't lift yourself by
your bootstraps.”
“Of course; there probably Is,"
agreed Davenport. “1 only said there
was apparently none. It must be very
slight—like the apparent loss In
radium, 1 suppose— for, as I say, I
have used Inis battery Jo drive my car
eleven hundred miles without any
wear I can determine by looking at
It"
»Wbnt metals do you use?”
"Pardon," returned the young man
"but there, of course, you’re asking
my secret. 1 will say this, however.
They are alloys of metals easily pro­
curable. The alloy must be exact
and the distance between the plate«
must be exact. 1 have a micrometer
■crow to adjust my plates.”
‘•You say the metals are easily pro­
curable. How much do you estimate
It cost you to build such a battery?"
"Mine up to now have been experi­
mental and built piecemeal by experi­
ment,” Davenport pointed out. "But
in quantity they could be built—of
that «lie—for somewhere between
fifty and a hundred and fifty dollars.
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