New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 19

NEWgBRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, o AT A it DECEMBER 1, 1922, department when he learned what | possible for me-—to consider thie great |®nister menace, Invigibly, around had happened to Rodman, The state | vital bulk of a man as a monk of | Rodman could not be escaped from, department turned it over to the court [one of the oldest religlons orders ln]\uu belleved it Agalnst your rea- at the trial . I think it was one of [the world, son, against all modern experience of the things that influenced the judge| BEvery common, academic cnmmp»ll'h'. you belleved it, in his decision. Stilla at the time, tion of such a monk he distinetly ne-| There was one man in there seemed no other reasonable de- | gatived. He Impressed me, instead, that everybody wishedl could have clslon to make, as possessing the ultimate qualities of [been present af the time. That was The testimony must have appeared | clever diplomacy-—the subtie ambas. Monsieur Jonquelle, Jonquelle was fneredible; it must have appeared fan- sador of some new Oriental power, |chief of the Criminal Investigation tastic, No man reading the record |shrewd( snave, accomplished, |Cepgrtment of the Hervice de la could have come to any other con- When one read the yellow-backed Surete in Paris He had been in clusion about it, Yet it semed im-|court-record, the sense of old, ob- | charge of the I'rench secret service on possible—at ' least, 1t seemed im-|acure, mysterious ngencies moving injthe frontier of the Shan states, and clent words to explain, and he did not get it very clear. He seemed to mean that the creative forces of the spirit would not tolerate a division of worshlp with the creative forces of the ‘body—the celibate notion in the monastic idea, Glovanni thought Rodman did not understand it; he thought he him- self understood It better. #4/The mony was pledging Rodman to a high vir- tue, in the lapse of which something awful was sure to happen, Glovanni wrote a letter to the state Qiiumphs of ~ M:Jonquelle 5 ' by MerviLLe DavissoN PosT D 1009 NEA Service, Inc the world at the time he was In Asia, ' (Another installment of the unusual mystery will appear in our next issue) ¢ THE THING,ON THE HEARTH “The first confirmatory evidence of the thing, Excellency, was the. print of a woman's bare foot,"” ¢ He was an immense creature, He ., sat in an upright chatr that seemed to have been provided especially for him, The great bulk of him flowed out and flled the chalr, It did not seem to . be fat that enveloped him. It semed rather to be some soft, tough fiber ,like the pudgy mass making up the body of a ‘deep-sea thing. One t an impression of strength. The country wsas before the open window; the clusters of cultivated shrub on the sweep of velvet lawn extending #to the great wall that in- closed the place, then the bend of the river and beyond, the distant moun- tains, blue and mysterious, blending indiscernibly into the sky. A soft sun, clouded with the haze of autumn, shone over it. “You know how the faint moisture ir the bare foot will make an im- pression.” He paused as though there Was some compelling force in the reflec- tion. It was impossible to say, with accuracy, to wha¥'race the man be- longed. He ‘came from some queer blend of Eastern peoples. His body and the cast of his features were Mongolian. But one got always, be- fore him, a feeling of the hot East lying low down against the stagnant Suez . One feit that he had risen slowly into our world of hard air and sun out of the vast sweltering ooze of it. He spoke English with a certain| care in the selection of the words, but with ease. It is necessary to try to understand this, because it explains the concep- tion everybody got of the creature, when they saw him in charge ‘“of Rodman. I am using precisely the descriptive words; he was exclusively in charge of Rodman, as a jinn in an Arablan tale might have been in charge of a king's son. The creature was servile—with al- most a groveling servility. But one felt that this servility resulted from something potent and secret. One looked to see Rodman take Solomon's ring out of his' waistcoat pocket. 1 suppose there is no longer any doubt about the fact that Rodman was one of those giganti¢ human intelligences who sometimes appear in the world: and by their immense conceptions dwarf all human knowl- edge—a sort of menttal monster that we feel nature has no right to pro- duce. Lord Bayless Truxley said that Rodman was four generations in advance of the time; and Lord Bayless Truxley was beyond question, the greatest authority on synthetic chemistry in the world. Rodman was rich and, everybody| supposed, indolent; no one ever thought very much: about him until he: published his brochure on the scfentific manufactyre of precious stones. Then instantly evenrybody with any pretension to a knowledge of synthetic chemistry turned -toward him, The brochure startled the world. It proposed to adapt the luster and beauty of jewels to commercial uses. Wg were being content with crude itation colors in ‘our commercial ;rul, when we could quite as easily have the actual structure and the actual luster of the jewel in it. We were painfully hunting over the earth, and in its bowels, for a few crystals and prettily-colored stones which we Yoarded and treasured, when in a mahufacturing laboratory Wwe could easily produce them, more perfect than nature, and in unlimited quan- ity. irow, if you want to understand what I am printing here about Rod- man, you must think about this' thing’ as a scientific possibility and not as a fantastic notion. = Take, for example, Rodman's address before the Sor- bonne, or his report to the Interna- tional Congress of Science in Edin- *burgh, and you will begin to see what I mean. The Marchese Glovanni, Who was a delegate to that congress, and Pastreaux, said that the only thing in the way of an actual prac- tical realization of what Rodman out- lined was the formulae. If Rodman counld work out the formulae, jewel- stuff could be produced as cheaply as glass, and in 'any quantity--by the carload. Imagine ' it; sheet ruby, sheet emerald, all the beauty and 10tre of jewels in the windows of the ner drug store! o corA:d '.he:e is another thing that I want you to think about. Think about the immense destruction of value—not to vus, so greatly, for our stocks, of precious stones are not large; butithe thing meant, practic- ally, wiping out all the assembled wealth of Asia except the actual earth and its structures. Put the thing some other way and eonsider it. Suppose we should sud- denly discover that pure gold uld be produced by treating commion yel- tow clay with sulphuric acld, or that somesgenius should set up a machine on the border of the Sahara that re- ceived sand at one end and turned out sacked wheat at the other! What, then, would our hoarded gold be worth, or the wheat-lands of Aus- tralia, Canada or our Northwest? The illustrations are fantastic. But “ the thing Roman was after was a practical fact. He had it on the way. Glovanni and Lord Bayless Truxiey were convinced that the man would wogk out the formulae, They tried, The thing came out after the mys- terious, incredible tragedy. I should not have written that final sentence, I want you to think, just now, about the great bulk of a man that sat in his big chailr beyond me at the win- dow. It was like Rodman to turn up with an outlandish human creature at- tending him hand and foot. How the thing came about rcads like a lle; it reads like the wildest lie that any- body ever put forward to explain a blg Oriental following one about. But it was no lle. Yau could think up a lie to equal the actual things that happened to Rodman. Take the way he died! . . . g The thing began in India. Rod- man had gone there to consult with the Marchese Glovanni concerning some molecular théory that was in- volved in his formulas, Giovanni was digging up a buried temple on the northern border of the Punjab. THE TENT-FLAP SIMPLY OPEN- ED AND THE BIG ORIENTAL APPEARED. One night, near the excavations, this inscrutable creature walked in on Rodman. No one knew how he got into the tent or where he came from. Gionanni told about it. in the explorer's tent, under his arm rolled up in a prayer- carpet. ' He gave no attention to Gio- vanni ,but he salaamed like a coolie | to the little American. ‘Mas(,es," +be said, “you were hard to find.”™ for you.”_ And hd#gbatted down on the dirty fioor by Rodman's camp stool. The two men spent the remainder of the night looking at the present that the creature brought Rodman in his prayer-catpet. They wanted toy know where the Oriental got it, and that's how the story came out. He'was something, searcher seems our nearest English word to it—in the gréat Shan Monastry on the southegstern plateau of the Gobi. He was looking for Rodman because he had the light—here was another word that the two men could find no term in any modern language to transiate: a little flame was the lateral meaning. ! The present was from the treasure- room of the monastry; the very car- pet around it, Giovanni said, was worth twenty thousand lire. There was another thing that came out in the talk that Giovanni afterward re- called. present and the man who brought it to him. The Oriental would protect him, in every way, in every direction, from things visible and invisible. He made quite a speech about it. But, there was one thing from which he could not protect him. The Oriental used a lot of his an- Have looked ovey the world The tent- flap simply opened, and the big Orien- tal appeared. He had something Rodman was to accept the , ’ KNICKERS Just the Thing to go Skating. $3.95 $4.95 SPRCIAL Women’s Winter Coats and Wraps Way Below Season’s Prices FUR TRIMMED COATS 1 Worth up to $39.75 ' These coats attain style as well as workmanship. There are three styles in this group with fur collars end «uffs of Beaverette, all silk-lined. 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