What is it ?" Flint slid off the edge of the table and walked over to Herzog; stood there in front of him, and bored down at him with eager eyes, the pupils contracted by morphine, but very bright.

"What's the best way ?" "With the electric arc, sir," answered the chemist, mopping his brow.
This grilling method reminded him of what he had heard of "Third Degree" torments.

"That's the best method, sir." "Now in use, anywhere ?" "In Notodden, Norway.

They have firebrick furnaces, you understand, sir, with an alternating current of 5000 volts between water-cooled copper electrodes.

The resulting arc is spread by powerful electro-magnets, so." And he illustrated with his eight acid-stained fingers.