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That would come to twenty pounds." "Twenty pounds! What, of this stuff? And worth forty dollars! Well, somebody must be crazy!" "Yes, they're crazy for it," answered Wiley, "but it's just a temporary rage, brought on by the European war. The market is likely to break any time." "Why tungsten!" murmured the Widow. "Who ever heard of such a thing? And it's been lying here idle all the time."
Look here " He stopped speaking for a moment and, stepping forward, lifted up another tubing from the table, and unfastened it at one of the joints. Then he held it up for all to see. "See that stuff in there? That's tungsten. Perhaps you don't all know what tungsten is. Well, it's a valuable commodity that is mined from the earth, and which is used expressly in the making of electric lamps.
The treasure was still Wiley's but well, Blount was used to waiting, so he smiled and extended the notes. At three dollars and more a pound it would not take many tons of tungsten to put Wiley safely out of the hole, but when he ran over his accounts he was startled by the bills that were piling up against him.
Suppose, for instance, that the fat daily checks should cease coming during the life of the lease. That could easily be explained it might be an error in book-keeping but it would make quite a difference to Wiley. And in return for some such favor Blount could afford to sell the tungsten for, say, fifty-five dollars a unit. Blount was a careful man.
The early September darkness rushed down and, as it did so, a big Tungsten light in the ceiling of Code's room sprang into a brilliant glow, the iron cover to the porthole being shut at the same instant. A few moments later the door of his cell was unceremoniously opened and a man entered bearing an armful of fresh clothing.
Our good friend Adolph, like his brother, has the same twist of brain. Instead of keeping the tubes, he returns them with the rather thin excuse that they are of the wrong gauge, and fills them with this tungsten, from the famous tungsten mines for which Belgium holds first place in the world. Very clever, isn't it?" The judge nodded. "I thought you would agree so, my Lord.
"How much would that be a ton?" piped up someone in the crowd, and Mrs. Huff put her head to one side. "Let's see," she said, "forty dollars a unit that's one hundredth of a ton. Oh, pshaw, it can't be that. Let's see, twenty pounds at forty dollars that's two dollars a pound; and two thousand pounds, that's oh, I don't believe it! I never even heard of tungsten!"
But I can land him in prison on the count of piracy; and by the Lord Harry, I'll do it if it takes my last dollar! He'll rue this adventure, or they call me Tungsten for nothing!" "I wanted so to believe in him!" "Not difficult to understand why. He has a silver tongue and a face like John the Baptist del Sarto's and you are romantic. The picture of him has enlisted your sympathies.
"If you need anything cooked, send it to us," Rip replied. "We have heat enough to cook anything, including tungsten alloy." He explained briefly what action they had taken. A new voice came on the communicator. "Foster, this is Colonel Stevens." Rip responded swiftly, "Yes, sir!" Stevens was the top Planeteer, commanding officer of all the Special Order Squadrons.
These tungsten buyers who were so avid for its product might purchase an interest in the mine; they might advance the fifty thousand and take it over under the bond and lease, and bring all his plans to naught. As Blount paced about the office he suddenly saw himself defrauded of that which he had worked for for years.
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