"A charm that Fernand always carries. He showed it to me once. He's very superstitious about it, he told me—and I found it back there in the store when I went to the door."
Ralph looked very thoughtful.
"Then he must have brought that machine from Mars," he said with decision. "And with such resources at his command, I wonder what his next move will be."
FOOTNOTES:
[7] In 1925 John L. Reinartz, working with ultra-short radio waves, actually made it possible to look through solid metal plates with the naked eye.
THE CONQUEST OF GRAVITATION
Alice and her father had been invited, the next day, to Ralph's laboratory, as he wished to show them some of his latest discoveries. They found him sitting in front of his desk while he was engaged in dictating scientific data to thin air.