Then it disappeared.
"In the second fortnight of the same month, a submarine boat was run beneath the waters of Lake Kirdall, in Kansas.

Then it disappeared.
"Everything points to the belief that the same inventor must have built these three machines, or perhaps that they are the same machine, constructed so as to travel both on land and water.
"A proposition is therefore addressed to the said inventor, whoever he be, with the aim of acquiring the said machine.
"He is requested to make himself known and to name the terms upon which he will treat with the United States government.

He is also requested to answer as promptly as possible to the Department of Federal Police, Washington, D.C., United States of America." Such was the notice printed in large type on the front page of every newspaper.

Surely it could not fail to reach the eye of him for whom it was intended, wherever he might be.

He would read it.