CHAPTER IV
CONCERNS THE SECRET
In our eagerness, Roseye and I set out to walk towards the pole, leaving Teddy in charge of the apparatus.
To approach the spot, we had to leave the market-garden and take a road lined by meagre cottages, then at last, skirting two orchards and yet another market-garden, we came out upon a second road, which we crossed, and at last found ourselves at the disused wireless-hut.
There a strange spectacle greeted our eyes for, the darkness having by that time become complete, we saw, around the lightning-conductor on the pole and over the steel stays, blue electric sparks scintillating.
'Look, darling!' I cried. 'See what we have at last produced by the unseen directive current!'
'Yes,' replied my well-beloved. 'Look at the sparks! How pretty they are! Why—they seem to be jumping across the insulators from one stretch of wire-rope to the other!'
'That effect is exactly what Teddy and I have for so long laboured to produce,' was my answer, as I
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