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There's enough explosive force in that much Hawkinsite to wreck every office building down-town!" "And we're shut in here with it!" "Yes! Yes! But let us " "Here! Suppose I turn the water into the thing?" "Don't!" shouted the inventor wildly, battering at the door with his fists. "It would send us into kingdom come the second it touched! Don't stand there gaping, Griggs!
Bric-a-brac there was none, although here and there, in the mass of plaster on the floor, gleamed bits of glass and china which might once have been parts of ornaments. Hawkinsite had evidently not been quite as powerful as its inventor had imagined, but it had certainly contained force enough to blow about ten thousand dollars out of Hawkins' bank account.
"Oh, just cut out that foolish talk," snapped the inventor. "I'm quite serious. Suppose I should tell you that I had thought and thought over this problem, and finally hit upon an idea for just such a powder? Where would dynamite and rhexite and meganite and all the rest of them be, beside " He paused theatrically. "Hawkinsite!"
It stood there, half-filled with a sticky mess, through which an agitator, run by the electric motor, was revolving slowly. "That's Hawkinsite, in the process of manufacture!" the inventor announced. A sickly terror crept over me. I made instinctively for the door. "Oh, come back," said Hawkins. "You can't get out, anyway, until I undo the lock. But there's no danger whatever, my dear boy.
After I got around again I tried in vain to spread the tale broadcast. I had some notion that the notoriety might cure Hawkins. But, after all, I don't know that it would have done much good. I cannot think that a man whose inventive genius will survive an explosion of Hawkinsite is likely to be greatly worried by mere newspaper notoriety.
Of course not," growled the inventor, tugging at his lever with almost frantic energy. "It's stuck a little new that's all. Er do you see a screw-driver on that table, Griggs?" I handed him the tool as quickly as possible, noting at the same time that despite the cessation of the stirring "Hawkinsite" was getting greener every second.
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