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ELECTRICAL DEVICES
The Occupant Of The Room SOURCE OF PERIL.
(Continued from page 7.)
Need Of Investigation Of Ships' Fires,
When there is a fire nowadays,
It was the loquacious porter who up finally, and saying with decision, furnished the details that made the "That's all the room contains! I've transaction questionable; and Min counted every single thing. There whether upon sea or land, the cause turn dismissed the loquacious por- is nothing more. Now I may sleep is nearly always given as boing] ter as soon as possible, and pre-in peace}"
[due to a short circuit in the electric
pared to get into the hastily arrang-, And it was during this absurd ed bed and snatch all the hours of process of enumerating the furnt-installation, writes the Scientific sleep he could before he was turn-ture of the room that the dreadful Correspondent of the Nautical Ma- jed out.
sense of distressing lassitude came gazino. How it does not seem to At first, it must be admitted, he over him that made it difficult even have occurred to anyone so far. felt uncomfortable-distinctly un-to finish counting.
but this a matter which affects the comfortable. He was in someone It came swiftly, yet with an amaz- else's room. He had really no right ing kind of violence that overwhelm-whole of the electrical engineering to be there. It was in the nature fed him softly and easily with a son-industry. Either a firo is caused of an unwarrantable intrusion; sation of enervating wearincas hard by a defect in the electrical instal- and while he unpacked he kept look-to describe. And its first effect was lation of it is not. Ing ́over ́his shoulder as though to banish fear. Не no longer
Therefore when suspicion is someone were watching him from possessed enough energy to feel the corners.
really afraid or nervous. The cold thrown upon it in this way Any moment, it seemed, he remained, but the alarm vanished. thorough investigation should be would hear a step in the passage, And into every corner of his usually made as to the facts of the case a knock would come at the door, vigorous personality crept the in- and the matter cleared up as far as the door would open, and there he sidious poison of a muscular fatigue would see this vigorous English--at first-that in a few seconds, it possible. True that in many fires into the destruction is so great that it woman looking him up
and down 'seemed translated itself with anger. Worse still, he spiritual Inertia.
hear would
her voice ask- A sudden consciousness of the ing himm what he
do- foolishness, the futility, of life, of cause, but in these cases the cause!
all should be given as "unknown." of fighting of Ing in her room-her bedroom, effort
that makes life worth
living, ke the case, for example, of the Of course, he had an adequate ex-;
fibre of planation, but still-1
shot into every
his Georges Philippar (the square- being and left him utterly weak. A funnelled) French liner which I Then, reflecting that he was al-'spirit of black pesssimism that was criticised in these pages a short ready half undressed, the humour not even vigorous enough to assert
Was
fa dificult to find any traces of a;
of it flashed for a second across his itself invaded the secret chamber of time ago); the cause of that disas. Į mind, and he laughed quietly. And his heart. Every picture that pre-trous fire given
at once, after that laughter, underį
short-
his breath came the sudden sense ented itself to his mind came dress circuit in a discused cabin, yet of tragedy he had felt before. Per-ed in grey shadows. A deariness of when an electrician cut off the the grave possessed him. Life was "juice" fire broke out in six or haps even' while he smiled her body Ja ghastly fraud! Religion a childish seven other places! Either the
ay broken and cold upon those humbug! Everything was merely a electrical installation was thorough-Į awful heights, the wind of snow trapa trap of death; a coloured ly bad, or it was not the cause of playing over her hair, her glazedi
toy that nature, used as decoy! the fire at all.. the eyes staring sightless up to
But a decoy for what? For nothing!!
these Investigation of stara. It made him shudder. There was no meaning in anything. should be made by skilled experts The sense of this woman whom he The only real thing was-DEATH.) in the interests of the general pu had never seen, whose name even And the happieat people were those blic and the electrical industry, be- he did not know, became extraor who found it soonest. dinarily real. Almost he could Imagine that she was somewhere
in the room with him, hidden, ob- serving all he did.
Then why wait for it to come!
Cases
cause these accidents are throwing
an unnecessary stigma on electric
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS.
He sprang out of bed, thoroughly lighting and electrical installations frightened. This was horrible, generally. Surely mere physical fatigue could) He opened the door softly to put not produce a world so black, an his boots outside, and when he outlook ao dismal, a cowardice that closed it again he turned the key struck with auch sudden hopeless- The R.M.S. Empress of Russia Then he finished unpacking and ness at the very roots of life? For, will leave here for Victoria and distributed his few things about the normally, he was cheerful and Vancouver, room. It was soon done; for, in strong, full of the tides of healthy Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama at noon B.C., via Shanghai, the first place, he had only a small living; and this appalling lassitude on December 2 (Friday). Gladstone and a knapsack, and, swept the very basis of his person- The R.MS. Empress of Canada secondly, the only place where heality into Nothingnean and the de-left Yokohama on; November could spread his clothes was the sire for death. It was like the de- (3 p.m.) leaves Honolulu on Decem- sofa. There WAS до chest of
velopment of a Secondary Person-ber 1 and is due at Vancouver on drawers, and the cupboard, an un-ality.
December 6. She will leaves Van- usually large and solid one, was He had read, of course, how cer-couver (for Hong Kong) on Decem- locked. The English-woman's things had evidently been hastily developed thereafter entirely differ-
tain persons who suffered shocks,ber. 17.
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The RM.S. Empress of Russia
The B.I. 6.3. Tilawa left Singa- | put away in it. The only sign of ent characteristics, memory, tastes, pore for this port on November 24; her recent presence was a bunch of
and so forth. It had all rather and is due here on November 30. faded Alpenrosen, standing in #
The P. & O. 8.8. Soudan left glass jar upon the washhand stand, frightened him. Though scientific This and a certain faint perfume on vouched for it, it was hardly to Singapore for this port on Novem- be bellered. Yet here was a similar ber 25 at 10.30 a.m., and is due were all that remained.
thing taking place in his own con- here on November 29 at about) In spite, however, of these very sciousness. He was, beyond ques-noon. slight evidences, the whole room was: pervaded with a curious sense of tion, experiencing all the mental occupancy that he found distasteful, variations of someone else! It arrived at Manila on November 27 was awful. It (Sun.) at noon, left Manila yeater- One moment the atmosphere, seemed was pn-moral. It subtly charged with a "just left" Waswell, after all, at the same day at 4 p.m., and is due at Hong
time, it was uncommonly interest-Kong to-morrow at 9 a.m. feeling; the next: it was a queer
leaves for Vancouver via ports on awareness of "still here" that made ing
And this interest he began to feel December 2 (Fri.) at noon. hin turn and look hurriedly behind him.
was the first sign of his returning The P. & O. 8. Kaisar-I-Hind Altogether the room inspired him normal Self. For to feel interest left Singapore for this port on November 26 at noon with the is to live, and to love life. with a singular aversion, and the He sprang into the middle of the outward English Malls, and is due strength of this aversion seemed the room-then switched on the electric here on December 1 at about 10 only excuse for his tossing the faded light. And the first thing that a.m. flowers out of the window, and then struck his eye was the big cup- "The E. & A. s.8. Tanda left Moji) banging his mackintosh upon the board.
6th Dec. cupboard door in such a way as to screen it as much as possible from view. For the sight of that big, 27th Doc. ugly cupboard, filled with the cloth- ing of a woman who might, then, be beyond any further need of covering thus his imagination insisted on 29th Nov, picturing it-touched in him a Įstartled sense of the incongruous that, did not stop there, but crept through his mind; gradually till it merged somehow into a sense of al 8th Dec. rather grotesque horror.!!!
At any rate, the sight of that cup- board was offensive, and he covered it almost instinctively. Then, turn- ing out the electric light, he got into bed.
"
But the instant the room was 5th Dec. dark he realised that it was more than he could stand; for, with the blackness, there came a sudden rusă 4th Dec. of cold that ho found it hard to explain. And the odd thing was that, when he It the candle beside
- Lat Dec. his bed, he noticed that his hand
trembled, y
9th Dec.This, of course, was too much. His Imagination was taking liber-
9th Dec, ties, and must be called to heel. Yet the way he called it to order was 4th Dec, significant, and its very deliberate 11th Dec.es betrayed a mind that has al- ready admitted" fear. And fear, fat. Dec., once In, 18 dificult to dislodge. - He lay there upon his elbow in bed, end camfully took note of all the objects In the room with the intention, as wers, of taking an Inventor61 everything his Belised perceived, then drawing a line,, addin
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