Let me give you one word of warning, Professor, before I write you at greater length on this matter.

Anthropologists are afflicted more, even, than any other race of scientific men, with jealousy.

Guard your secret well, lest the honour of this discovery should be stolen from you.
"WILLIAM RAYSMORE." [Illustration: QUEST AND LENORA RECEIVE THE MESSAGE FROM LAURA.] [Illustration: QUEST IS SURPRISED AT FINDING THE STOLEN NECKLACE IN THE BLACK BOX.] The Professor nodded deliberately as Quest finished the letter.
"Now, perhaps, you can understand," he said, "why it was necessary to keep Hartoo absolutely hidden.

In a month's time my papers will be ready.

Then I shall electrify the world.