If she had told him that the Professor's invention might enable Austria to conquer all the surrounding nations, there is every chance that the machine would have been carefully preserved.
"The explosion in the Treasury vaults," continued Jennie, "was accidentally caused by this instrument, although the machine at the moment was in a garret half a mile away.

You saw the terrible effect of that explosion; imagine, then, the destruction it would cause in the hands of one of those anarchists who are so reckless of consequences." "I shall destroy the instrument with my own hands," asserted the Director fervently, mopping his pallid brow.
Jennie then went on, to the increasing astonishment of the Princess and the Director, and related every detail of her interview with the late professor Carl Seigfried.
"I shall go at once and annihilate that machine," said the Director, rising when the recital was finished.

"I shall see to that myself.

Then, after the inquest, I shall give an order that everything in the attic is to be destroyed.

I wish that every scientific man on the face of the earth could be safely placed behind prison bars." "I am afraid that wouldn't do much good," replied Jennie, "unless you could prevent chemicals being smuggled in.