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Say, there ain't any doubt in your minds that it's him, is there?" Von Koenitz looked cynically round the room. "There is not!" exclaimed Rostoloff and Liban in the same breath. The German laughed. "Speak for yourselves, Excellencies," he sneered. His tone nettled the wireless representative of the sovereign American people.
Hood scratched the side of his nose in a manner politely doubtful. "Sure thing, your Honour," he answered at last. "Sure the conditions was unusual. That feller has some juice and no mistake." "Juice?" inquired Von Koenitz. "Yare current. Whines like a steel top. Fifty kilowatts sure, and maybe more! And a twelve-thousand-metre wave." "I do not fully understand," interjected Rostoloff.
The President smiled wearily. "What do you wish me to do?" he asked, glancing round the table. "Shall we remain inactive? Shall we wait and see what may happen?" "No! No!" shouted Rostoloff, jumping to his feet. "Another week and we may all be plunged into eternity. It is suicidal not to regard this matter seriously. We are sick from war.
"What, then, shall be done?" inquired Rostoloff anxiously. "The world will be annihilated!" "Your Excellencies" Von Koenitz arose and took up a graceful position at the end of the table "I must protest against what seems to me to be an extraordinary credulity upon the part of all of you. I speak to you as a rational human being, not as an ambassador.
"Before making up my mind," returned the latter quietly, "I should like to see the operator who received them." "By all means!" exclaimed Von Koenitz. The President pressed a button and his secretary entered. "I had anticipated such a desire on the part of all of you," he announced, "and arranged to have him here. He is waiting outside. Shall I have him brought in?" "Yes! Yes!" answered Rostoloff.
A power which can control the length of the day can annihilate the globe." "You cannot change the facts," remarked Prince Rostoloff sternly to the German Ambassador. "The earth has changed its orbit. Professor Vaskofsky, of the Imperial College, has so declared. There is some cause. Be it God or devil, there is a cause.
At the head of the table was the President of the United States; next to him Count von Koenitz, the German Ambassador, representing the Imperial German Commissioners, who had taken over the reins of the German Government after the abdication of the Kaiser; and, on the opposite side, Monsieur Emil Liban, Prince Rostoloff, and Sir John Smith, the respective ambassadors of France, Russia, and Great Britain.
I shall ask you to signify your opinion as to each of these questions." "I believe that some action should be taken, based on the assumption that they are manifestations of one and the same power or cause," said Monsieur Liban emphatically. "I agree with the French Ambassador," growled Rostoloff.
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