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The plate-holder must be loaded in a dark room or dark closet, with absolutely no exposure to daylight or any artificial light whatever except a very faint light from a dark-room lantern, a combination of ruby and yellow glass or paper. We should always test our dark room and light by means of a plate before we trust them to actual working conditions.

"Something in that line, but I've no tackle here." "Oh, that's all right. Here's his dark-room lamp, and the shutters to this room are solid. They'll keep out the moonlight." We swung-to the coverings over the windows, and put a lighted candle behind the cherry-glass shade, and then I took the little camera out of its leather case.

Ruth raised her head to listen, and our lips met for one brief moment. Then, with a silent greeting to the friend who had looked on our grief and witnessed our final happiness, we turned and retraced our steps quickly, filling the great, empty rooms with chattering echoes. "We won't go back into the dark-room which isn't dark now," said Ruth. "Why not?" I asked.

Ruth raised her head to listen, and our lips met for one brief moment. Then, with a silent greeting to the friend who had looked on our grief and witnessed our final happiness, we turned and retraced our steps quickly, filling the great empty rooms with chattering echoes. "We won't go back into the dark-room which isn't dark now," said Ruth. "Why not?" I asked.

The cellar was cemented, cool and dry, with deep closets for canned fruit and flour and groceries, bins for coal and cobs, and a dark-room full of photographer's apparatus. Claude took his place at the carpenter's bench under one of the square windows.

We were there as scenic photographers in love with their work, and determined to reproduce the marvels of the Colorado's canyons, as far as we could do it. In addition to three film cameras we had 8 × 10 and 5 × 7 plate cameras; a plentiful supply of plates and films; a large cloth dark-room; and whatever chemicals we should need for tests.

In her own room she presently lay down upon her cot, rejoicing that the old lady could not hear its creaking. Toward morning she fell asleep. "Miss Ruston!" "Yes?" The answer came through the door of the dark-room. "I can't come out for four minutes. Can you give me the message through a closed door?" "Certainly," responded Amy Mathewson, standing outside.

As he spoke Acton emerged from the house, and came down the path towards them; his straw hat was tilted forward over his eyes, and his cheeks were glowing like the red glass of a dark-room lamp. He sauntered along, kicking up the gravel with the toe of his boot. "Well, what happened?" inquired Jack Vance. No answer. "What's the matter ?" cried Diggory; "what did she say?"

The most striking object in the room, however, was a huge and mysterious tin box about seven feet high and four feet square. It stood on end, like a huge packing-case, its side being perhaps five inches from the Crookes tube. The professor explained the mystery of the tin box, to the effect that it was a device of his own for obtaining a portable dark-room.

I bought some ordinary plates, which were opened in the dark-room of an X-ray laboratory. The plate was inclosed within an envelope of opaque black paper and this in another envelope. It was then suspended about twelve inches in front of the eyes of the sitting experimenter....