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sles. and a narrow gravel path leading
from the wooden lzatc.
A girl of about 19 stevned from the
porch with a sprinkling can in her hand.
She was dressed in a simple brown skirt
and wore a While ishlrtwalst onen a trifle
at the throat. dlsplayiniz ll glimpse of the
soft. white nesl-i below her neck. As she
stood there in surprise, the sky suddenly
lighted up from 8 “pouring” which was
taking place in the Bessemer Converter
Mill, far st the other end or the slant.
ll e or more away. The red glare
revealed a slim. girlish form. it pair of
tender brown eyes. and a crown of black
hair that tell
about her white temples.
tionless for a secon . hen
down the sprinkling can and breathed
just the one word: V
"Dave"
this same man that marriage between
them was impossible, hopeless.
CHAPTER III.
MYRX-IXE CARY,
in his own.
“I hadn't exrlected to call tonight." he
s
here that you would explain that funny
little red tower with the bars on 1
window sndthe lights burning all nlzht
and all day."
She waved her hand in the direction
of the mills. Far on the other side of
the board fence-a thousand feet. Del“
haps, from the tiny porch where they
.,,r.,.; r g narrow, wooden tower
was visible against the pink luminance
Tho bright light from In
LAURXSTON glanced in the direction
.4VVlll"I the result that the arcs. destruc-
tire as they might he, would be smoth-
ered in fl e or sit seconds."
“But isn't it terribly dangerous," the
girl asked, "for a human being to ope-
rate it?"
"It would be.“ replied Lauriston, “it
he had to operate it directly. And that's
the part I'm going to explain now." Ila
adjusted the field glasses slightly sna
then hantled them to er. “Try and
catch the high-tension shanty. if you
ml.
She raised them to her eyes, moved
them from side to side. and turned the
screw a. triue.
“Oh, how plain," she exclaimed sud-
denly. "Vvl-iy, Dave. can see every-
thing in that little tower-room from
the floor un. There‘s a. marble ranel.
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1-1 , b ‘ ‘ There's A She stopped abruptly.
0“ A di h i a th eculler t he (‘W53 W "'5 """"‘1“" “’“'"- “ 3‘ “ "Go ahead,” he urlred. "Give meanico
Delivery thatna gvorllsxotfseclvtz tultpone manoin 9" I W“ “'0 '‘'"“"9'i 19“ '“"‘>’- feminine description of what you see.‘
only-nu olthlw the world" but in her mind was the loomed "D I much 13"" “eel WW" “TVell.," she continued. entranced, "1
"'"-““"“‘ “"W"-4' bitter realization that sooner or later the liuvvorllnit ‘WW 0X-“R0 Strum!” don't really see such a terrible lot after
moment would arrive when she must tell ‘"5 "-5 “’V- ““" ‘M’ ’”“"‘“"’ led '-hr“ all. Just 3 tin? empty l'00m- A tele-
phone on the wall. A cluster of very
bright lights surrounded by a reilector-
on the ceiling. ‘A white marble panel.
A single tiny copper switch with the
handle pointed upward and ls-lts-
m
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explained "But on-ethlns occurred to “G ‘W1 “““,C‘”“‘ “"1 “ ‘W’ "Yes, touching; a pair of contacts. And
prevent my calm: to hcd-so r though‘ ‘Yes’ Fm 1m K ‘"5 “’ "Pm" "“’ fixed to the handle is a little steel ring
that DEHIIDS Miss Myrene Cary would "0451 1 C3"- “"1 ‘hm ““ 3 mg m let that's psdiocked to another little steel -
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habitant of an. Ironvaie boarding-house.”
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“You're always welcome, Dave." the
girl replied shyly. “Tiiree nights in suc-
if you feel like coming.
into the farther one. After closing the
front door quietly she took up the re-
maining chairlnnd looked up at him,.
And in her eyes was a tender light
which he could not see.
"Did the extra. work hnally material-
ize?" she asked. “You now, Dave. you
told me’ when you were here before that
you and your helper were next on the
list for extra night work." '
He looked down at her face in the
dusk. nnally caught me, just as I
expected," he said. “But fortunately the
job is is short one and doesn't have to
be done until midnight on account of
I have to replace three
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she said, will-i.a little terrmed note in
her voice. ,“Some evenings when the
with that peculiar blue hazc-
and I can’! help but think of them 519
three strands of death." She shuddered.
“Death! That‘: what they make ‘me
think of."
Lauriston laughed lightly, but made
no reply. ’
“Yes, Dav death," the girl went on.
“X can never forget the day. three years
out on the Slagvllie line.
that 8. switch was accidentally thrown
shut in the power-house-and then
" She pressed her hands to her eyes
tho to shut out an unpleasant sight.
"Even tonight I can picture them bring-
ing in the poor burnt-d bodies, covered
with rubber sheets." .
1' girl." he salt) firmly. ‘‘you’ve
created a morbid fear of something
which you don't understand. What
happened out on that line three years
ago can never occur again. for ii. repeti-
tion of that accident has been guarded
against for all future time by the com-
is that. Dave? I don't.
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"Of course. you don't." said Lauriston.
“So I'll explain the best I can. lf 1 for-
get myself and use any high soul-idirirr,
technical forms-any Cornell Univer-
sity language-Just draw me up short."
He stopped and it look at pain passed
here-
But he
pulled himself tnlzelher finally and went
0
No, want to use imy
University language-or any-
thing else that's going to remind me of
I explained it once before
eyes have doom
for the rest oi‘ your days. , ‘it's yourself
-and not your place in life that counts.
How often I‘ve tried to make you see it
that way. “’lly, I'll think is hundred
times more of 0. good lineman than a
poor electrical engineer. But I know,"
"that
And
duced a shining
held glasses. "Got this contraption out
of my trunk tonight." he explained.
"Like everything else, tho. Myrene. they
remind me of the old daysetlio days of
dreams." Again he caught himself up
"But now to make the whole
You," ,
he began, -"you
see those three strands of copper dis-
hilis toward Slas-
techrllcally as ‘p ase
the current that's generated here in the
mammo gas engine power house of
the -Ironvsie Steel Plan But they
carry it at I. potential of 22,000 volts,
enough to kill instantly twenty-two
men standing hand in ha d in a circle.
And the reason [or this is that if the
power to run the subsidiary company-
the Slagvilie Cement Works-was trans-
mitted as direct current and at the or-
dinary low and safe voltages, the actual
current strength In ampere: required
would be so enormous that from half to
twoetbirds of the energy would disap-
pear in the form of heat losses before
it even reached Slngville."
She was a little puzzled. but she nod-
tied and made no reply, ,
" he continued, "the question
of heat losses may not be quite clear
but it's not essential anyway.
And in A. few war 3 dispose of
the question of what happens to the
power after it reaches Slalzvllle.
means of stationary arrangements called
transformers, and revolving machines
ix ed rotary converters, it nnrtliy
emerges [or use at the cement works in
the low cornrncrclai pressures oi.’ H0,
220 and 440 volts, direct current. And
in that form it runs the hundreds of
slag crushers, grinders, revolving kilns,
and what not El.‘ ' '
“ me more, she said eagerly.
"Red always refuses. lie that
worricn shouldn't be curious about men's
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At the mention of Red 1ilt:Afee'snama
a shadow passed over Luul-iston‘s lace.
It lingered only for ti second, however,
and then melted away as rapidly as it
had come. so he went on:
"Now. Myrene, tosten your attention
on that or steel
framework-not far from
window of the‘hlizh-tension shanty."
"I s s it against the sky." she said.
“And the big boxllke affair on the top."
"Exactly Well. that big baxllke af-
fair is eectro-mechanical device
f the
Slngville works were running full blast,
and that switch were suddenly opened,
a tel-ride. dangerous. dazzling nrc would
sltion. And directly above the catches
r contacts. I shall say-it a la red
electric bulb. glowing briizhtly. And-
andsand that's ilbout all. Da
"Nothing else"" he askc
ll-yes. ' she said slowly. "Direct-
ly below the sw ch i snot pair
another tiny glass bulbmb
ing. And-and-th.-it's absolutely all,
Dave." w “,
“night you are,” he said with B. laugh.
“You didn't miss a point. Now that inno-
cent-looklng little switch governs a. <
somewhat intricate electric motor and
gearing arrangement up in the on switch
cabinet on the top of the steel tower.
Thrown upward, the motor closes the oil
switch w hlrl about three seconds,‘ and
the Siagville u.ill:l'nlSsl0l‘l line becomes
directly connected to the 22,000-volt
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