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The only type of inspection which could possibly cope with such a problem would require to probe deeply into the technical and commercial secrets of the factories and plants, and could even then be misled owing to the constantly developing nature of the compounds produced.

"If you don't mind my saying so," he added hesitatingly, "what I have just seen in there DID make a very powerful impression upon me." "It is a very ancient ceremony," said the priest; "probably Persian, like the baptismal form, although, for that matter, we can never dig deep enough for the roots of these things. They all turn up Turanian if we probe far enough.

If death comes, she fears "that the haggard doctor will dissect my naked corpse," and pictures herself dying on the operating-table like a stray dog and her well-made body "disgraced by the lustful kiss of the too eager blade" as, "with sinister smile untiring, they tear my bowels out and still gloat over my sold corpse, go on to bare my bones, and veins at will, wrench out my heart," probe vainly for the secrets of hunger and the mystery of pain, until from her "dead breast gurgles a gasp of malediction."

Since they do not, I must probe more deeply. I do not wish to distress you, but belief is essential. I have been aboard only a short time, not long enough to learn anything about you in the so-called `normal' way. Would you agree?" Sherman nodded. "Very well. Your middle name is Jean. Your hobby is pre-Empire science fiction." Corina paused, contemplating.

As for my employees, I see them chiefly through their work." "Then you don't really know them," she announced. "Possibly, but I know their results. It sounds a little inhuman, doesn't it?" "I think I understand." Elsie was tempted to probe this gray-eyed man about Belding, but presently gave it up.

She smiled as she gave him her hand, saying, "You may put me under arrest if I don't mind you in everything hereafter." "Well," muttered the surgeon, as he looked after her, "to think that a girl should have a probe long and sharp enough to go straight to the heart of a man of my age! No wonder Maynard and Whately are over head and ears."

He had time in which to wonder about himself and to attempt to probe his sensations. Absurd ideas took hold upon him. He thought that he did not relish the landscape. It threatened him. A coldness swept over his back, and it is true that his trousers felt to him that they were no fit for his legs at all. A house standing placidly in distant fields had to him an ominous look.

He was not ready, however, to probe into the subject more deeply, nor could he, for the sake of Frederick, urge on to any further confession a young woman whom his unhappy son professed to love, and in whose discretion he had so little confidence. As for Sweetwater, he had now fully recovered his self-possession, and bore himself with great discretion when Dr.

After Mount Terrible, with its grim "Great Secret," had come the horrors of the prison camp at Holzminden and its nameless atrocities, his escape to New York, the Hun cipher orders to "silence him," his miraculous rescue and redemption by the girl at his side and now their dual mission to probe the mystery of Mount Terrible.

"The truth is simple, even for the simplest man." "Do you destroy Hator, and all his generations, with a single word?" "I destroy nature, and set up law." A long silence followed. "My probe is double," said Spadevil. "Suffer me to double yours, and you will see as I see." "Come you here, you big man!" said Catice to Maskull. Maskull advanced a step closer.