“It gives me great pleasure to offer my sincere congratulations and thanks for your recent contribution to the knowledge of the world.
“Professor Harvey G. Mills.”
“Why, what’s it all about?” cried Joshua, a pink glow in his hollow cheeks.
But before any one could puzzle out an answer Dr. J. Miles Stanhope burst in, his cheeks purple with excitement, and thrust before the group a belated Sunday paper. And there in headlines that crossed the page, Joshua read as if in a rapturous dream:
CELEBRATED SCIENTIST VINDICATES ALLEGED
FAKE ASTRONOMER
DR. EMANUEL SCHLOTT, GERMAN TELESCOPIST
CABLES MILTON UNIVERSITY
HAS PHOTOGRAPHED FIGURE UNKNOWN
AMERICAN OBSERVER SAW ON JUNE EIGHTEENTH
SO DIM SCHLOTT FAILED TO SEE IT ON PLATE UNTIL
TUCKED-AWAY ARTICLE IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
THREE WEEKS OLD CALLS TO
ATTENTION