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Then you come down to me and I hand you three hundred thousand dollars in currency; for in such a transaction as this, checks, with their indorsements, provide a trail that may prove embarrassing. You take that money and deposit it in escrow in any local bank against a bill of sale of the Bavarian from Mrs. Koenitz to the North and South American Steamship Company, of Guaymas, Mexico.
"You must not address his Excellency, Baron von Koenitz, in this fashion." "But the man was making a monkey of me!" muttered Hood. "All I say is, look out. This Pax is on his job and means business. I just got another call before I came over here at nine o'clock." "What was its purport?" inquired the President.
"Why, it said Pax was getting tired of nothing being done and wanted action of some sort. Said that men were dying like flies, and he proposed to put an end to it at any cost. And and " "Yes! Yes!" ejaculated Liban breathlessly. "And he would give further evidence of his control over the forces of nature to-night." "Ha! Ha!" Von Koenitz leaned back in amusement.
And thereafter, also, although Professor Hooker was sublimely unconscious of the fact, the celebrated conclave, known as Conference No. 2, composed of the best-known scientific men from every laud, was sitting, perspiring, in the great lecture hall of the Smithsonian Institution, its members shouting at one another in a dozen different languages, telling each other what they did and didn't know, and becoming more and more confused and entangled in an underbrush of contradictory facts and observations and irreconcilable theories until they were making no progress whatever which was precisely what the astute and plausible Count von Koenitz, the German Ambassador, had planned and intended.
"Adolph Koenitz never became an American citizen, despite the fact that he had lived in San Francisco twenty years and operated three steamers out of this port. He was a reserve officer in the German Navy; and when the war broke out he interned his ships, placed his entire estate in his wife's name and reported for duty.
"My dear Sir John," returned Von Koenitz courteously, "my ultimate answer is that we have no adequate reason to connect the phenomena which have disturbed the earth's rotation with any human agency." "That," interposed the President, "is something upon which individuals may well differ. I suppose that under other conditions you would be open to conviction?" "Assuredly," answered Von Koenitz.
That is the question," exclaimed the President almost apologetically, for he felt, as did Count von Koenitz, that somehow an explanation would shortly be forthcoming that would make this conference seem the height of the ridiculous. "I have already," he added hastily, "instructed the entire force of the National Academy of Sciences to direct its energies toward the solution of these phenomena.
"With great respect, your Excellency," said Count von Koenitz, "the matter is preposterous as much so as a fairy tale by Grimm! This wireless operator of whom you speak is lying about these messages. If he received them at all a fact which hangs solely upon his word he received them after and not before the phenomena recorded." The President shook his head.
"I am of opinion that the phenomena should be the subject of proper scientific investigation," remarked Count von Koenitz more calmly. "But as far as these messages are concerned they are, if I may be pardoned for saying so, a foolish joke. It is undignified to take any cognizance of them." "What do you think, Sir John?" asked the President, turning to the English Ambassador.
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