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Professor Brierly stepped forward. He and Matthews worked quickly, deftly, the old scientist uttering a word of explanation now and then. The venerable jurist watched their deft handling of intricate mechanism with keen interest and obvious enjoyment.
However, I think Miller considered both of these performances merely cases of hysteria, induced by the darkness and the constraint of sitting about the table. And perhaps he was correct." "Anything a doctor doesn't understand he calls hysteria," put in Brierly. "I consider these specialists nuisances."
These, knowing that Jimmy's paper was the one that sprung the story, made a concerted rush for him. He fended them off. He told them that beyond what had been printed he knew nothing. Asked about Professor Brierly, he told them that he had not seen the old scientist for more than fifteen hours; that his paper in New York had handled that end.
He was thus engaged and the others were making a fuss over Tommy when the telephone bell rang. "For you, Professor," called Martha. The voice that came to Professor Brierly over the wire had a break in it. In the voice it was difficult to recognize the finely modulated diction of Justice Isaac Higginbotham. "For God's sake, Professor, come at once. Two of us were killed.
Dan, go over across the street and ask Doc Harris to come over here with the material for takin' an impression. Step on it." When the impression had been taken, Professor Brierly said to the dentist: "Doctor, we should like to have a model of this right away, please. It is important." "It may not be a very good one, Professor, a stone model would be better, but it will take "
"Good boy, Harry, you not only have eyes, but you can see." He looked down and a smile broke over his tired features. Tommy had been tugging his coat demanding attention. Professor Brierly took the child in his arms and hugged him tight. After the excitement was over he bent eagerly over the papers that Jimmy brought from Brown's farm.
How old is Thomas, Mrs. Van Orden?" "He was just four and half years old yesterday." Professor Brierly nodded his snow white head. "Exactly, I thought so. No baby's tooth at that age shows the amount of disintegration that this tooth shows. Depend on it Mrs. Van Orden, this tooth comes from the mouth of a child of not less than nine years of age." The group was staring in wide-eyed astonishment.
Professor Brierly now called up the Higginbotham camp for additional details. The overhanging rock had fallen, carrying with it the porch. The house was not much damaged. Professor Brierly surmised that the one thing that saved the house was the weakness with which the porch had been attached to the main building.
But Philip did afford it, and he wrote, thanking his friends, and declining because he said the political scheme would fail, and ought to fail. And he went back to his books and to his waiting for an opening large enough for his dignified entrance into the literary world. It was in this time of rather impatient waiting that Philip was one morning walking down Broadway with Henry Brierly.
Hawkins and Washington were in tears, as were many of the spectators also. "Gentlemen, in this condition of affairs it needed but a spark I do not say a suggestion, I do not say a hint from this butterfly Brierly; this rejected rival, to cause the explosion.
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