"My next request is that you destroy utterly a machine which stands on a table near the centre of the Professor's room.

Perhaps the instrument is already disabled--I believe it is--but, nevertheless, I shall not rest content until you have seen that every vestige of it is made away with, because the study of what is left of it may enable some other scientist to put it in working order again.

I entreat you to attend to this matter yourself.

I will go with you, if you wish me to, and point out the instrument in case it has been moved from its position." "The room is sealed," said the Director, "and nothing will be touched until I arrive there.

What is the nature of this instrument ?" "It is of a nature so deadly and destructive that, if it got into the hands of an anarchist, he could, alone, lay the city of Vienna in ruins." "Good heavens!" cried the horrified official, whose bane was the anarchist, and Jennie, in mentioning this particular type of criminal, had builded better than she knew.