The scientists would probably reduce your prison to powder, and walk calmly out through the dust." Mr.Hardwick had told Jennie that if she solved the Vienna mystery she would make a European reputation for the _Daily Bugle_.

Jennie did more than was expected of her, yet the European reputation which the _Bugle_ established was not one to be envied.

It is true that the account printed of the cause of the explosion, dramatically completed with the Professor's tragically sudden death, caused a great sensation in London.
The comic papers of the week were full of illustrations showing the uses to which the Professor's instrument might be put.

To say that any sane man in England believed a word of the article would be to cast an undeserved slight upon the intelligence of the British public.

No one paused to think that if a newspaper had published an account of what could be done by the Roeentgen rays, without being able to demonstrate practically the truth of the assertions made, the contribution would have been laughed at.