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CONTINUING THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET\| || |“Cooking” The
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR Gillings, the butler, found Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy stabbed to death _in_the_banqueting-hallat Lavington Court. The host, Sir Reginald Laving- ton, was suspected of having a motive for murder because of jealousy over his wife. Now Dr Watson tells
how
Sherlock Hofmas investigatas.....
PART TWO
Y friend had dropped to his larees, and by the Hight of a candle was peering closely at the horrible splashes of blood and
M
dabbled the oaken floor.
wine which
"Perhaps you would have the goodness, Watson, to pull that bell-rope," he said, as he scrambled to his feet.
THE NEW EXPLOITS OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
by ADRIAN CONAN
DOYLE
and JOHN DICKSON CARR
LADY LAVINGTON'S EYES
"I would much profer that you stayed, Dr Watson," tho braged. "Your presence gives mo confidence, Why have you sent for me, Mr Holmes?"
My friend, allting back, had closed his eyes. "Shall wo say that you are here in your hus- band's interests?” he murmured. "You will not object if I ask you to elucidate a few small points which are stiil obscure to me?"
Lady Lavington rore to her feet.
"Mr Holmes, this is LH). worthy." cho rald coldly, · "You are trying to trick me into condemning my own husband! He is innocent, I tell you."
DILATED-
THEN SHE RUSHED FROM THE ROOM
buller.
"A word with the who discovered the body, would not come amiss be fore we seek accommodation at the village inn. Let us adjourn to the hall."
ruom
LIA
"In God's
WAK
"So I believe.
-
Nevertheless,
his honest atitude, It was evident that Sir name, Mar- expression on
Reginald Lavington
a I pray that you will compose garet, what have ye been face.
dangerous man, and that our yourself and answer my ques- saying?" he demanded, the
visit appeared to have made tiens. understand that this veins swelling in his thick
him more so. I pointed out to Buck Daley has been neck. "Ye'll have me at
Holmes that hip duty lay at intimate friend of Sir Reginald Lavington Court rather than la for some years past." the rope's end yet!"
the county town of Maidstone. He replied merely with the in- congruous observation that the historic Lavingtons family.
"Whatever the sacrifice, I I think that each of was gind to leave that black, wear you shall not suffer
Surely it is better that-" vuulted
with its
She whispered a few agitat- terrible occupant. and to
ed words in his ears. find ourselves before the log fire blazing on the hearth. Lady Laving- ton, pale but beautiful in a gown of bronze velvet with
ORCE
a collar of Brussels
rose from a chair.
more
luce.
For a moment her eye seemed to search each one of us with
mute, 1
intense
"Never! Never!" retorted her
husband fiercely, What? You hore, Gillings? Have you 100 been con- demning your master?"
None of us had heard the
"Heaven forbid, Sir Re- Gillings ginald!"
replied warmly. I told Sergeant Bassett only what I saw and heard. Colonel Dalcy called for a bottle of port, He was in the banqueting-hall. He he said he wished to drink a toast with you from the Luck of Lavington, to the victory of his horse in the Leopardstown Races next week. Since there was port in the decanter on the buffet, I poured it into the great cup. I remember how the Colonel laughed as he dismissed me."
"He laughed, you say?" questioning, and then she butler's approach, but now said Sherlock Holmes quick had swept to her husband's he stepped into the circle of ly. "When did you actually fire-light, with A troubled see Sir Reginald with the
Colonel ?"
side.
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"I did not actually sen him, sir. But the colonel said-
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"And laughed when be raid It," Interposed Holmes. "Perhaps Lady Lavington would tell us whether Colonel Daley was a frequent guest under this roof?"
were
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Lady Lavington
with a
Sinking into the choir, she raised be: vell and let her head rest among the cushions.
when
originally written in the year 1485,
the House of Lancaster triumphed ut last over the House of York.
F
Uraniu
Chapter 3 of a report on the Atom by. GORDON DEAN
This
Chairman, U:S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-53
ROM the control room boms, and the whole goes into In A reactor plant the national weapons stockpile, ute against an ag- you haven god ready for view of the loading or in time of war,
plutonium of which face of the pile which fa only a fraction of an ounce has where your uranium is boen produced from the original finally transmuted, to plu- ton of manumore--is for all stable, por- practical purposes a tonium. Let us say it is manont material of immense loading day. They pile is value, hot only as explosive- shut down; the control rods weapon material, but also are in; the "Are" is tem- fuel for atomle power plants.
Any time we porarily quenched.
need. it more Let us say that your pound of we do for
nee
uraniumi, sealed with
other uranium in an aluminium can, is being loaded into the reactor.
as
Wa
decido that
for power than Weapons, we have
only to take it out of the bomb stockpile and put it to peace-
Together with thousands of ful use. other cars, it goes with the a set out on the road marked You will recall that when we
to
the
of machinery into one of the
we left behind many small, round holes that "plutonium," lead through the concrete and approximately a pound of green
salt lead shielding
destined to travel tho reactor
uranium-235 route to a bomb. cort.
have had. that we Once in the reactor,
it rests Now In tubes around which cooling glimpse of the plutonium pro- water is circulated, and which cess, let us go back to Fernald are separated by solid cubes of and follow this other batch of graphite. The graphite is there green salt on its way to because it helps to
direct the hom neutrons released in the atomic fire to their ultimate goals in uranium-238.
After your uranium is insert- ed in the pile, the holes leading through the concrete shell are sealed with lead stoppers, the control rods are gradually with drawn, and the pile of uranium and graphite bursts into nuclear
There
stared at
"'And il came to pass that on im, and then began to laugh. She laughed most heartily, but
note in her mirth that the field of Bosworth Sir John Jarred on me as a medical man, Lavington did fake prisoner two knights and a squire and carried I passed n restless morning- "Friend?" she cried at last, them with hlon to Lavington The wild weather kept me "Why, he was unworthy to Court. For he would take no indoors over a week-old news- black my husband's boots}" ransom from any who had rais- ed banner for the House ot paper, and it was not undl four o'clock in
"I am relieved to hear you York. the afternoon that Holmes burst
say so. And yet it is
fair to into our private suppose that both men moved in That night, after Sir John sitting-room. His cape was the same circles during the had supped, each was brought dripping and rain-sodden, but London scatons, and perhaps to The table and offered the his eyes glittered and his cheeks unknown you, might have Choice. One knight, he who were flushed with some intense shared interests In common-
a kinsman of Sir John, WAS. inner excitement,
possibly of
a sporting nature? drank
from the Life and When did
your husband Arat departed without ransom. And "Good benvens!" I said. "You Introduce Colonel
Daicy
efficiently to one knight and the squire drank from the Death. It was a decu accd
look as though you have found fands?" the answer to our problem."
my
BEFORE friend could
reply,
there
came a knock
room Ewung
"Ah.
Lady Lavington."" said he, "we are honoured by your visit."
mosi un-Christian, for they were unconfessed, and there- spake far and wide of the Luck of Lavington.
after nien
the rain
a
FOR & while we sat In
bomb.
The
process is quite different. There is, for example, no transmutation involved, and a nuclear reaction. But it is no less unusual, no loss fabulous. and no less difficult,
The differences between the two processes stem partly from the fact that uranium-235, un- like plutonium, exista in nature. your uranium re It is present in all natural
of several maing for a period
uranium, and 12 is thereforu montis, "cooking," undergoing present in the uranium in your its own strange kind of
The problem is to metamorphosis as minute parti- green salt. cles in it change from one basic get it out. element to another.
One Difference When the uranium is "done" To acquire some idea of tho that is, when as much as is magnitude of this job, it must passible has been first be understood that uranium-
changed into plutonium-it 19 236 is an extremely rare sub- pushed out the other side of stance. Although it exists in the reactor lato a canal nlled natural uranium, it is there in with water to a depth of thirty ratio of only 1 to 140-in other fect. This water absorbs the words, there is but one part of deadly rays now
emanating "335" to each 140 parts of the
from the contents of aluminium can.
"Hot" Uranium
Months
of
uranium known
thelum-238,
nuclear cooking
chem
13
It must also be understood that uranium-225 is identical, ically speaking, with have made the uranium "hot" uranium-233. This means that -in nuclear sense. But it melts at exactly the same there is no visible change in temperature, and that it reacts the aluminium can, and, if you with all chemicals in exactly the could see it, the uranium, Itzell same way. Thus, if you were to would not look vastly different pldeo a small quantity of "295" particles that have changed in one test tube and an equal into plutonium are individual
quantity of "238" another, and were to pour in, one at a
other every
The
"You are pliably wrong in and the door all your suppositions. I know
silence after of our sitting- Colonel Daley for years before
the reading of It was 1 who had my marilage.
this extra- open. introduced him to my husband.
crdinary do- Holmes rose from the chair into. Buck Daley was a creature of
cument, while which he had just relapsed.
ambitious, worldly.
the. wind reless, and yet with all the lastrid
agains: the charm of
kind. What windows and boomed in the interest could such as he share ancient chimney. in common with a rough but honbutable 'man whose world Through her features were begins and ends with the
velled. there was It seemed
atoms widely dispersed through- no boundaries of his own ancestral that some heavily to me
mlataking that fall, for
gracious lands?" swif emotion glowed
out the uranium, and they time, figure Instant in those wonderful green
now hesitating on our
could not be seen even with the known to man, the reactions threshold.
nipst powerful microscope. But that would take place in each eyes.
the can is "hot" even so, and tube would be identical. "I received
Mr your note,
although you would not feel this
is,
of COLITE, ano Holmes," she replied in a low
radiation immediately by touch- voice,
1 care at once."
"205" betyeen
"238:" the Sinking into the chair which I
nucleus of a
atom will had wheeled forward, she raised
split in two when struck by a her vell and let her head rest
neutron, whereas the "38" the cushions. "I
nucleus will change back among
into came at once.
repeated
plutonium. But this is hardly useful means wearily.
of separation,
"For
some
an
years past,
"But frequent guest," she said. my husband was not even in the house this morning! Has he not told you so already?"
"Excuse me, my lady, dog- kedly interrupted Sergeant Bas- sett, "Sir Reginald says he was at the river but he admits he can't prove IL”
"and
"Holmes," I said at last, "I. acem to senso something monstrous here. Yet what con- nection.can there bo between the murder of a profligate "A woman's love," sald gambler and the violence that Holmes quietly,
followed on a battle 400 years
has re ago? Only the room mained the same."
Lady Lovington's eyes dilated. Then, dropping the vell
she ushed from her face, room.
over
the
"This, Watson, is the second most important thing that
I
FOR 0
loug have discovered."
ilme Holmes
moked
"And the first?"
silence,
his
brows drawn
"We shall and it at Lavington down and his Court. A black baronet, Watson! gaze fixed Might it not also suggest black-
mail?"
knew
thefrom
"You mean that Sir Reginald
The firelight threw her face into strong relief, and, as ;I "Quite so," anic Holmes. studied her features, süll beaut)-
upon the fire. "Well, Watson, there is nothing fui despite the almost waxen more to be done here tonight." pallor and restless brilliance the expression on his face that
her eyes, I discerned he had reached some final decl- was being blackmailed?" WE found in them the
Then he drew from his thock of the slon. comfortable event that had shattered the pocket a crumpled sheet of accommoda- peace of her life and the privacy paper.
at the of her home. A sense of com- Three Owls in passion prompted me to speak, the village of Lavington, "You may have complete con-
tion
My * friend ignored the ques.lon. » PI. have promised to meet Gregson at the house. Would you, care to accompany
"What is in your mind?
I
Holmes za mettly and pre- fidence in my friend Sherlorile sense, my dear fellow, I have. have seldom seen you so grave," occupied. When I attempted to
question him, he cut me short with the statement that he had nothing further to add until he visited Maldstone on the
had morrow.
Holmes," I said gently. "This is painful time for you, indeed Lady Lavington, but rest assur ed that everything will turn out for the best,"
She thanked me with a glance. could But, when I rose to leave them I must confess that I
understand my friend's together, she held up her hand.
not
*A while ago, Watson, you asked whether I had found theme?": answer to our problem. In one
Listen closely to the vital evidence I shall read to you. It is from
the records in the Maldstone County Registry.".
"I am all attention," "This is a little transcription which I bave put into compre→ hensible English. It
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It is already growing dark," said Sherlock Holmes. "The dagger that killed Colonel Daley must do no further harm.”
The Adventure of the Black Baronet concludes tomorrow.
Stop Here For Slotted Angles
"Now, developments on dieplay
will include
slotted angler, aking
cleaners, time recorders, woges and salaries machines, wrifing machinga,
work
By LES ARMOUR
bins, dust collecting equip some obscure corner of the print, old man. Should have the produce of the working
ment.... Except Iram
an
nouncement of the Factory Equipe world. But only the Bri- read SKIN cleaners. ment Exhibition, Westminator.
Ntish ungenuity soars to
ible bing, sitting there eagerly waiting to swallow
classes.
No fear about writing "You ought to look into our Filmoline Barrier machines either. They are Cream, though. A superior ingenious gimmicks for fill- degreasant and industrial ing in municipal rating detergent will also be books. (Shortening the time between the bill and bailift, We hung up,
to be exact.).. and Wages
tish could have invented machines for collecting it, doubt about it, Bri-
But what really worried greater heights.
us was the writing machine. The man who invented a the day would come when We always suspected that slot for the angle must
would be replaced. have been doing some deep Quite simple, no doubt. You thinking indeed. And sking feed 500 cliches in one end, machines existed all right. A Mystery cleaners! We didn't even press a button, and you get But they only record what know akings existed, let Armour on the strike situs- you earn-("and deduct your alone that they needed to tion at the other. be cleaned.
•
We
test he.
substance
ing it, the excruciatingly severe tacular nuclear difference
On
burns that would shortly appear your band would tell you that you had dared to defy one of the basic forces of the uni- verse.
The
can
the
containing uranium and plutonium is now even if we could shoot a stream allowed to "cool" for a month of neutron bullets into a picoo or more in the canal.
You can
of uranium, we would succeed
1
It
"235," walk down to this cement-lined only in destroying the ing. There, deop below you,
difference be- Emid the subterranean equlp- tween
The
channel and look over the rail. nots and 238 that
ment used to transport the cans is of any consequence is a very, away from the reactor, you can very slight difference in weight sce one of the most eerie and U-235 is lighter. The scientists beautiful sights of the atomic seized upon this alight difference age--the
cold blue glow that in weight as the only hope for surrounds each can of uranium devising an effective method of and that marks the effect of its separation. intense radioactivity on the water.
It Worked
Several possible approaches were followed. One of the first was a process known as electro- magnetta. separation This consisted of
combining
the
From the canal your can of uranium goes to another building and back into the hands of the chemist.
Only a fraction of the uranlum has been changed into uran um with another substance plutonium, and the problem to form a then charging tho now is that old familiar one of gas electrically, then shooting reparation-to get the plutonium it in a stream of molecules past out. This, of course, is a. a giant magnet. The chemical problem, for uranium that the lighter molécules would
& theory WE and plutonium, being different be deflected ever so slightly. "more" basic elements with different than the heavier ones; as
they chemical properties, can be passed the magnet, and thus. separated by conventional, eculd be collected separately. chemical means.
Fantastle as it
it may
sound, process actually, worked, and a
tion
for
Radioactive
this
a newer process,
"gaseous
fffusion,
how.
De love
But we must remember that $20,000,000 plant was erected
at Oak Fudge to carry. It
However, your metal now la intensely radioactive. and cannot
be called In conventional ways, usod handled
"today, so the entire chemical separa- If you know
the works, you know how gaseous process, including handling of burning acids and diffusion wanks, for the basic the transfer of materials from ides is essentially the same. one cell to another, must be Uran
Uranium in gaseous form is carried out by remote control simply pumped through Sa behind great lead and concrete are on the cured
́of barriers.
Pure plutonium metal looks of U-235 are gradually concent- much like pure uranium, or, rated and taken off at the end
that matter like
of the line in virtually pure pure form. nickel, silver or chromlum.. It is heavy, like, natural uranium, Small Molecules: but differs from it in one very Important respect if it, is brought together into what the the adentlity call a
"critical But the slotted angle. machine yet invented. Just have not received Informa-fact, it would be an atomic not be seen even with the income tax faster thail any Ah, there is a mystery, "I amass," It will explode like a diffusion process we are dealing atomic bomb “As A · matter of matter so small that they can.“ what you need) Lake, flow from any of the ex- bomb. It is also poisonous, and, powerful microscope. It is a hole in the head, wo-need-hibitors relating to Slotted to make matters worse, those molecules that must be sifted through, the barriers, and Angles," reports the exhibiiy radioactive
From the Hanford chamita); therefore the holes in ✨ The" Dreams Fade
And 'dust collecting tion's publicity man a trifle
frocessing plant your urandum, barrier material must be war machines? MA "glbrifled;
*Or rather" XDW, your plutonium, en million AS
Billovably mall-less, than one. ls taken deep behind the cloak lameter:
an inch in vacuum cleaner, this.: We started with's the
of security to the secret loca- efficient, Imy
tions, where it la, fabricated By (C machine shopinthe
Faced with this sobering As to wages and salaries thought, wo decided to in machines! Forsooth! And
vestigate. here the boss" has been telling us that salaries have to be earned
Tha work; bin world is wholly foreign to us. Prob- sking cleaners. The dreama ably some. dodge for be busting strik
Doubtless
good market for dust intrave
them.
health ployees
voice at
he work the telephone like polite laugh. WMUs and miles of,
anlarios
you are]: From
the
an
It is not nearly to simple as separating and from gravel; however, for in the gasGOUN-
with individual molecules of
most
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