Page 9 of Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930

  The Thief of Time

  _By Captain S. P. Meek_

  The teller turned to the stacked pile of bills. They were gone! And no one had been near!

  "_That man never entered and stole that money as thepicture shows, unless he managed to make himself invisible._"]

  Harvey Winston, paying teller of the First National Bank of Chicago,stripped the band from a bundle of twenty dollar bills, counted outseventeen of them and added them to the pile on the counter before him.

  "Twelve hundred and thirty-one tens," he read from the payroll changeslip before him. The paymaster of the Cramer Packing Company nodded anassent and Winston turned to the stacked bills in his rear currencyrack. He picked up a handful of bundles and turned back to the grill.His gaze swept the counter where, a moment before, he had stacked thetwenties, and his jaw dropped.

  "You got those twenties, Mr. Trier?" he asked.

  "Got them? Of course not, how could I?" replied the paymaster. "Therethey are...."

  His voice trailed off into nothingness as he looked at the emptycounter.

  "I must have dropped them," said Winston as he turned. He glanced backat the rear rack where his main stock of currency was piled. He stoodparalyzed for a moment and then reached under the counter and pushed abutton.

  The bank resounded instantly to the clangor of gongs and huge steelgrills shot into place with a clang, sealing all doors and preventinganyone from entering or leaving the bank. The guards sprang to theirstations with drawn weapons and from the inner offices the bankofficials came swarming out. The cashier, followed by two men, hurriedto the paying teller's cage.

  "What is it, Mr. Winston?" he cried.

  "I've been robbed!" gasped the teller.

  "Who by? How?" demanded the cashier.

  "I--I don't know, sir," stammered the teller. "I was counting out Mr.Trier's payroll, and after I had stacked the twenties I turned to getthe tens. When I turned back the twenties were gone."

  "Where had they gone?" asked the cashier.

  "I don't know, sir. Mr. Trier was as surprised as I was, and then Iturned back, thinking that I had knocked them off the counter, and I sawat a glance that there was a big hole in my back racks. You can seeyourself, sir."

  The cashier turned to the paymaster.

  "Is this a practical joke, Mr. Trier?" he demanded sharply.

  "Of course not," replied the paymaster. "Winston's grill was closed. Itstill is. Granted that I might have reached the twenties he had piledup, how could I have gone through a grill and taken the rest of themissing money without his seeing me? The money disappeared almostinstantly. It was there a moment before, for I noticed when Winstontook the twenties from his rack that it was full."

  "But someone must have taken it," said the bewildered cashier. "Moneydoesn't walk off of its own accord or vanish into thin air--"

  A bell interrupted his speech.

  "There are the police," he said with an air of relief. "I'll let themin."

  * * * * *

  The smaller of the two men who had followed the cashier from his officewhen the alarm had sounded stepped forward and spoke quietly. Hisvoice was low and well pitched yet it carried a note of authority andpower that held his auditors' attention while he spoke. The voiceharmonized with the man. The most noticeable point about him was theinconspicuousness of his voice and manner, yet there was a glint ofsteel in his gray eyes that told of enormous force in him.

  "I don't believe that I would let them in for a few moments, Mr.Rogers," he said. "I think that we are up against something a littledifferent from the usual bank robbery."

  "But, Mr. Carnes," protested the cashier, "we must call in the police ina case like this, and the sooner they take charge the better chancethere will be of apprehending the thief."

  "Suit yourself," replied the little man with a shrug of his shoulders."I merely offered my advice."

  "Will you take charge, Mr. Carnes?" asked the cashier.

  "I can't supersede the local authorities in a case like this," repliedCarnes. "The secret service is primarily interested in the suppressionof counterfeiting and the enforcement of certain federal statutes, but Iwill be glad to assist the local authorities to the best of my ability,provided they desire my help. My advice to you would be to keep out thepatrolmen who are demanding admittance and get in touch with the chiefof police. I would ask that his best detective together with an expertfinger-print photographer be sent here before anyone else is admitted.If the patrolmen are allowed to wipe their hands over Mr. Winston'scounter they may destroy valuable evidence."

  "You are right, Mr. Carnes," exclaimed the cashier. "Mr. Jervis, willyou tell the police that there is no violence threatening and ask themto wait for a few minutes? I'll telephone the chief of police at once."

  * * * * *

  As the cashier hurried away to his telephone Carnes turned to hiscompanion who had stood an interested, although silent spectator of thescene. His companion was a marked contrast to the secret serviceoperator. He stood well over six feet in height, and his protruding jawand shock of unruly black hair combined with his massive shoulders andchest to give him the appearance of a man who labored with hishands--until one looked at them. His hands were in strange contrast tothe rest of him. Long, slim, mobile hands they were, with taperingnervous fingers--the hands of a thinker or of a musician. Telltalesplotches of acid told of hours spent in a laboratory, a tale that wasconfirmed by the almost imperceptible stoop of his shoulders.

  "Do you agree with my advice, Dr. Bird?" asked Carnes deferentially.

  The noted scientist, who from his laboratory in the Bureau of Standardshad sent forth many new things in the realms of chemistry and physics,and who, incidentally, had been instrumental in solving some of the mostbaffling mysteries which the secret service had been called upon toface, grunted.

  "It didn't do any harm," he said, "but it is rather a waste of time. Thethief wore gloves."

  "How in thunder do you know that?" demanded Carnes.

  "It's merely common sense. A man who can do what he did had at leastsome rudiments of intelligence, and even the feeblest-minded crooks knowenough to wear gloves nowadays."

  Carnes stepped a little closer to the doctor.

  "Another reason why I didn't want patrolmen tramping around," he said inan undertone, "is this. If Winston gave the alarm quickly enough, thethief is probably still in the building."

  "He's a good many miles away by now," replied Dr. Bird with a shrug ofhis shoulders.

  * * * * *

  Carnes' eyes opened widely. "Why?--how?--who?" he stammered. "Have youany idea of who did it, or how it was done?"

  "Possibly I have an idea," replied Dr. Bird with a cryptic smile. "Myadvice to you, Carnes, is to keep away from the local authorities asmuch as possible. I want to be present when Winston and Trier arequestioned and I may possibly wish to ask a few questions myself. Useyour authority that far, but no farther. Don't volunteer any informationand especially don't let my name get out. We'll drop the counterfeitingcase we were summoned here on for the present and look into this alittle on our own hook. I will want your aid, so don't get tied up withthe police."

  "At that, we don't want the police crossing our trail at every turn,"protested Carnes.

  "They won't," promised the doctor. "They will never get any evidence onthis case, if I am right, and neither will we--for the present. Ourstunt is to lie low and wait for the next attempt of this nature andthus accumulate some evidence and some idea of where to look."

  "Will there be another attempt?" asked Carnes.

  "Surely. You don't expect a man who got away with a crime like this toquit operations just because a few flatfeet run around and make ahullabaloo about it, do you? I may be wrong in my assumption, but if Iam right, the most important thing is to keep all reference to my nameor position out of the press reports."

  The cashier hastened up to them.

>   "Detective-Captain Sturtevant will be here in a few minutes with aphotographer and some other men," he said. "Is there anything that wecan do in the meantime, Mr. Carnes?"

  "I would suggest that Mr. Trier and his guard and Mr. Winston go intoyour office," replied Carnes. "My assistant and I would like to bepresent during the questioning, if there are no objections."

  "I didn't know that you had an assistant with you," answered thecashier.

  Carnes indicated Dr. Bird.

  "This gentleman is Mr. Berger, my assistant," he said. "Do youunderstand?"

  "Certainly. I am sure there will be no objection to your presence, Mr.Carnes," replied the cashier as he led the way to his office.

  * * * * *

  A few minutes later Detective-Captain Sturtevant of the Chicago policewas announced. He acknowledged the introductions gruffly and got down tobusiness at once.

  "What were the circumstances of the robbery?" he asked.

  Winston told his story, Trier and the guard confirming it.

  "Pretty thin!" snorted the detective when they had finished. He whirledsuddenly on Winston.

  "Where did you hide the loot?" he thundered.

  "Why--uh--er--what do you mean?" gulped the teller.

  "Just what I said," replied the detective. "Where did you hide theloot?"

  "I didn't hide it anywhere," said the teller. "It was stolen."

  "You had better think up a better one," sneered Sturtevant. "If youthink that you can make me believe that that money was stolen from youin broad daylight with two men in plain sight of you who didn't see it,you might just as well get over it. I know that you have some hidingplace where you have slipped the stuff and the quicker you come cleanand spill it, the better it will be for you. Where did you hide it?"

  "I didn't hide it!" cried the teller, his voice trembling. "Mr. Triercan tell you that I didn't touch it from the time I laid it down until Iturned back."

  "That's right," replied the paymaster. "He turned his back on me for amoment, and when he turned back, it was gone."

  "So you're in on it too, are you?" said Sturtevant.

  "What do you mean?" demanded the paymaster hotly.

  "Oh nothing, nothing at all," replied the detective. "Of course Winstondidn't touch it and it disappeared and you never saw it go, although youwere within three feet of it all the time. Did _you_ see anything?" hedemanded of the guard.

  "Nothing that I am sure of," answered the guard. "I thought that ashadow passed in front of me for an instant, but when I looked again, itwas gone."

  * * * * *

  Dr. Bird sat forward suddenly. "What did this shadow look like?" heasked.

  "It wasn't exactly a shadow," said the guard. "It was as if a person hadpassed suddenly before me so quickly that I couldn't see him. I seemedto feel that there was someone there, but I didn't rightly _see_anything."

  "Did you notice anything of the sort?" demanded the doctor of Trier.

  "I don't know," replied Trier thoughtfully. "Now that Williams hasmentioned it, I did seem to feel a breath of air or a motion as thoughsomething had passed in front of me. I didn't think of it at the time."

  "Was this shadow opaque enough to even momentarily obscure your vision?"went on the doctor.

  "Not that I am conscious of. It was just a breath of air such as aperson might cause by passing very rapidly."

  "What made you ask Trier if he had the money when you turned around?"asked the doctor of Winston.

  "Say-y-y," broke in the detective. "Who the devil are you, and what doyou mean by breaking into my examination and stopping it?"

  Carnes tossed a leather wallet on the table.

  "There are my credentials," he said in his quiet voice. "I am chief ofone section of the United States Secret Service as you will see, andthis is Mr. Berger, my assistant. We were in the bank, engaged on acounterfeiting case, when the robbery took place. We have had a gooddeal of experience along these lines and we are merely anxious to aidyou."

  Sturtevant examined Carnes' credentials carefully and returned them.

  "This is a Chicago robbery," he said, "and we have had a littleexperience in robberies and in apprehending robbers ourselves. I thinkthat we can get along without your help."

  "You have had more experience with robberies than with apprehendingrobbers if the papers tell the truth," said Dr. Bird with a chuckle.

  * * * * *

  The detective's face flushed.

  "That will be enough from you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," he said. "If youopen your mouth again, I'll arrest you as a material witness and as apossible accomplice."

  "That sounds like Chicago methods," said Carnes quietly. "Now listen tome, Captain. My assistant and I are merely trying to assist you in thiscase. If you don't desire our assistance we'll proceed along our ownlines without interfering, but in the meantime remember that this is aNational Bank, and that our questions will be answered. The UnitedStates is higher than even the Chicago police force, and I am here underorders to investigate a counterfeiting case. If I desire, I can seal thedoors of this bank and allow no one in or out until I have the evidenceI desire. Do you understand?"

  Sturtevant sprang to his feet with an oath, but the sight of the goldbadge which Carnes displayed stopped him.

  "Oh well," he said ungraciously. "I suppose that no harm will come ofletting Winston answer your fool questions, but I'll warn you that I'llreport to Washington that you are interfering with the course of justiceand using your authority to aid the getaway of a criminal."

  "That is your privilege," replied Carnes quietly. "Mr. Winston, will youanswer Mr. Berger's question?"

  "Why, I asked him because he was right close to the money and I thoughtthat he might have reached through the wicket and picked it up. Then,too--"

  He hesitated for a moment and Dr. Bird smiled encouragingly.

  "What else?" he asked.

  "Why, I can't exactly tell. It just seemed to me that I had heard therustle that bills make when they are pulled across a counter. When I sawthem gone, I thought that he might have taken them. Then when I turnedtoward him, I seemed to hear the rustle of bills behind me, although Iknew that I was alone in the cage. When I looked back the money wasgone."

  "Did you see or hear anything like a shadow or a person moving?"

  "No--yes--I don't know. Just as I turned around it seemed to me that therear door to my cage had moved and there may have been a shadow for aninstant. I don't know. I hadn't thought of it before."

  "How long after that did you ring the alarm gongs?"

  "Not over a second or two."

  "That's all," said Dr. Bird.

  "If your high and mightiness has no further questions to ask, perhapsyou will let me ask a few," said Sturtevant.

  * * * * *

  "Go ahead, ask all you wish," replied Dr. Bird with a laugh. "I have allthe information I desire here for the present. I may want to ask otherquestions later, but just now I think we'll be going."

  "If you find any strange finger-prints on Winston's counter, I'll beglad to have them compared with our files," said Carnes.

  "I am not bothering with finger-prints," snorted the detective. "This isan open and shut case. There would be lots of Winston's finger-printsthere and no others. There isn't the slightest doubt that this is aninside case and I have the men I want right here. Mr. Rogers, your bankis closed for to-day. Everyone in it will be searched and then all thosenot needed to close up will be sent away. I will get a squad of men hereto go over your building and locate the hiding place. Your money isstill on the premises unless these men slipped it to a confederate whogot out before the alarm was given. I'll question the guards about that.If that happened, a little sweating will get it out of them."

  "Are you going to arrest me?" demanded Trier in surprise.

  "Yes, dearie," answered the detective. "I am going to arrest you andyour two little playmates
if these Washington experts will allow me to.You will save a lot of time and quite a few painful experiences if youwill come clean now instead of later."

  "I demand to see my lawyer and to communicate with my firm," said thepaymaster.

  "Time enough for that when I am through with you," replied thedetective.

  He turned to Carnes.

  "Have I your gracious permission to arrest these three criminals?" heasked.

  "Yes indeed, Captain," replied Carnes sweetly. "You have my graciouspermission to make just as big an ass of yourself as you wish. We'regoing now."

  * * * * *

  "By the way, Captain," said Dr. Bird as he followed Carnes out. "Whenyou get through playing with your prisoners and start to look for thethief, here is a tip. Look for a left-handed man who has a thoroughknowledge of chemistry and especially toxicology."

  "It's easy enough to see that he was left-handed if he pulled that moneyout through the grill from the positions occupied by Trier and hisguard, but what the dickens led you to suspect that he is a chemist anda toxicologist?" asked Carnes as he and the doctor left the bank.

  "Merely a shrewd guess, my dear Watson," replied the doctor with achuckle. "I am likely to be wrong, but there is a good chance that I amright. I am judging solely from the method used."

  "Have you solved the method?" demanded Carnes in amazement. "What onearth was it? The more I have thought about it, the more inclined I amto believe that Sturtevant is right and that it is an inside job. Itseems to me impossible that a man could have entered in broad daylightand lifted that money in front of three men and within sight of ahundred more without some one getting a glimpse of him. He must havetaken the money out in a grip or a sack or something like that, yet thebank record shows that no one but Trier entered with a grip and no oneleft with a package for ten minutes before Trier entered."

  "There may be something in what you say, Carnes, but I am inclined tohave a different idea. I don't think it is the usual run of bankrobbery, and I would rather not hazard a guess just now. I am going backto Washington to-night. Before I go any further into the matter, I needsome rather specialized knowledge that I don't possess and I want toconsult with Dr. Knolles. I'll be back in a week or so and then we canlook into that counterfeiting case after we get this disposed of."

  "What am I to do?" asked Carnes.

  "Sit around the lobby of your hotel, eat three meals a day, and read thepapers. If you get bored, I would recommend that you pay a visit to theArt Institute and admire the graceful lions which adorn the steps.Artistic contemplations may well improve your culture."

  "All right," replied Carnes. "I'll assume a pensive air and moon at thelions, but I might do better if you told me what I was looking for."

  "You are looking for knowledge, my dear Carnes," said the doctor with alaugh. "Remember the saying of the sages: To the wise man, no knowledgeis useless."

  * * * * *

  A huge Martin bomber roared down to a landing at the Maywood airdrome,and a burly figure descended from the rear cockpit and waved his handjovially to the waiting Carnes. The secret service man hastened over togreet his colleague.

  "Have you got that truck I wired you to have ready?" demanded thedoctor.

  "Waiting at the entrance; but say, I've got some news for you."

  "It can wait. Get a detail of men and help us to unload this ship. Someof the cases are pretty heavy."

  Carnes hurried off and returned with a gang of laborers, who took fromthe bomber a dozen heavy packing cases of various sizes, several of themlabelled either "Fragile" or "Inflammable" in large type.

  "Where do they go, Doctor?" he asked when the last of them had beenloaded onto the waiting truck.

  "To the First National Bank," replied Dr. Bird, "and Casey here goeswith them. You know Casey, don't you, Carnes? He is the bestphotographer in the Bureau."

  "Shall I go along too?" asked Carnes as he acknowledged theintroduction.

  "No need for it. I wired Rogers and he knows the stuff is coming andwhat to do with it. Unpack as soon as you get there, Casey, and startsetting up as soon as the bank closes."

  "All right, Doctor," replied Casey as he mounted the truck beside thedriver.

  "Where do we go, Doctor?" asked Carnes as the truck rolled off.

  "To the Blackstone Hotel for a bath and some clean clothes," replied thedoctor. "And now, what is the news you have for me?"

  "The news is this, Doctor. I carried out your instructions diligentlyand, during the daylight hours, the lions have not moved."

  * * * * *

  Dr. Bird looked contrite.

  "I beg your pardon, Carnes," he said. "I really didn't think when I leftyou so mystified how you must have felt. Believe me, I had my ownreasons, excellent ones, for secrecy."

  "I have usually been able to maintain silence when asked to," repliedCarnes stiffly.

  "My dear fellow, I didn't mean to question your discretion. I know thatwhatever I tell you is safe, but there are angles to this affair thatare so weird and improbable that I don't dare to trust my ownconclusions, let alone share them. I'll tell you all about it soon. Didyou get those tickets I wired for?"

  "Of course I got them, but what have two tickets to the A. A. U. trackmeet this afternoon got to do with a bank robbery?"

  "One trouble with you, Carnes," replied the doctor with a judicial air,"is that you have no idea of the importance of proper relaxation. Is itpossible that you have no desire to see Ladd, this new marvel who issmashing records right and left, run? He performs for the IllinoisAthletic Club this afternoon, and it would not surprise me to see himlower the world's record again. He has already lowered the record forthe hundred yard dash from nine and three-fifths to eight andfour-fifths. There is no telling what he will do."

  "Are we going to waste the whole afternoon just to watch a man run?"demanded Carnes in disgust.

  "We will see many men run, my dear fellow, but there is only one inwhom I have a deep abiding interest, and that is Mr. Ladd. Have youyour binoculars with you?"

  "No."

  "Then by all means beg, borrow or steal two pairs before this afternoon.We might easily miss half the fun without them. Are our seats near thestarting line for the sprints?"

  "Yes. The big demand was for seats near the finish line."

  "The start will be much more interesting, Carnes. I was somewhat of aminor star in track myself in my college days and it will be of thegreatest interest to me to observe the starting form of this new speedartist. Now Carnes, don't ask any more questions. I may be barking upthe wrong tree and I don't want to give you a chance to laugh at me.I'll tell you what to watch for at the track."

  * * * * *

  The sprinters lined up on the hundred yard mark and Dr. Bird and Carnessat with their glasses glued to their eyes watching the slim figure inthe colors of the Illinois Athletic Club, whose large "62" on his backidentified him as the new star.

  "On your mark!" cried the starter. "Get set!"

  "Ah!" cried Dr. Bird. "Did you see that Carnes?"

  The starting gun cracked and the runners were off on their short grind.Ladd leaped into the lead and rapidly distanced the field, his legstwinkling under him almost faster than the eye could follow. He wasfully twenty yards in the lead when his speed suddenly lessened and thebalance of the runners closed up the gap he had opened. His lead was toogreat for them, and he was still a good ten yards in the lead when hecrossed the tape. The official time was posted as eight and nine-tenthsseconds.

  "Another thirty yards and he would have been beaten," said Carnes as helowered his glasses.

  "That is the way he has won all of his races," replied the doctor. "Hepiles up a huge lead at first and then loses a good deal at the finish.His speed doesn't hold up. Never mind that, though, it is only anadditional point in my favor. Did you notice his jaws just before thegun went?"

  "They seemed to clenc
h and then he swallowed, but most of them did something like that."

  "Watch him carefully for the next heat and see if he puts anything intohis mouth. That is the important thing."

  Dr. Bird sank into a brown study and paid no attention to the next fewevents, but he came to attention promptly when the final heat of thehundred yard dash was called. With his glasses he watched Ladd closelyas the runner trotted up to the starting line.

  "There, Carnes!" he cried suddenly. "Did you see?"

  "I saw him wipe his mouth," said Carnes doubtfully.

  "All right, now watch his jaws just before the gun goes."

  * * * * *

  The final heat was a duplicate of the first preliminary. Ladd took anearly lead which he held for three-fourths of the distance to the tape,then his pace slackened and he finished only a bare ten yards ahead ofthe next runner. The time tied his previous world's record of eight andfour-fifths seconds.

  "He crunched and swallowed all right, Doctor," said Carnes.

  "That is all I wanted to be sure of. Now Carnes, here is something foryou to do. Get hold of the United States Commissioner and get a John Doewarrant and go back to the hotel with it and wait for me. I may phoneyou at any minute and I may not. If I don't, wait in your room until youhear from me. Don't leave it for a minute."

  "Where are you going, Doctor?"

  "I'm going down and congratulate Mr. Ladd. An old track man like mecan't let such an opportunity pass."

  "I don't know what this is all about, Doctor," replied Carnes, "but Iknow you well enough to obey orders and to keep my mouth shut until itis my turn to speak."

  Few men could resist Dr. Bird when he set out to make a favorableimpression, and even a world's champion is apt to be flattered by theattention of one of the greatest scientists of his day, especially whenthat scientist has made an enviable reputation as an athlete in hiscollege days and can talk the jargon of the champion's particular sport.Henry Ladd promptly capitulated to the charm of the doctor and allowedhimself to be led away to supper at Bird's club. The supper passed offpleasantly, and when the doctor requested an interview with the youngathlete in a private room, he gladly consented. They entered the roomtogether, remained for an hour and a half, and then came out. The smilehad left Ladd's face and he appeared nervous and distracted. The doctortalked cheerfully with him but kept a firm grip on his arm as theydescended the stairs together. They entered a telephone booth where thedoctor made several calls, and then descended to the street, where theyentered a taxi.

  "Maywood airdrome," the doctor told the driver.

  * * * * *

  Two hours later the big Martin bomber which had carried the doctor toChicago roared away into the night, and Bird turned back, reentered thetaxi, and headed for the city alone.

  When Carnes received the telephone call, which was one of those thedoctor made from the booth in his club, he hurried over to the FirstNational Bank. His badge secured him an entrance and he found Caseybusily engaged in rigging up an elaborate piece of apparatus on one ofthe balconies where guards were normally stationed during banking hours.

  "Dr. Bird said to tell you to keep on the job all night if necessary,"he told Casey. "He thinks he will need your machine to-morrow."

  "I'll have it ready to turn on the power at four A.M.," replied Casey.

  Carnes watched him curiously for a while as he soldered together theelectrical connections and assembled an apparatus which looked like amotion picture projector.

  "What are you setting up?" he asked at length.

  "It is a high speed motion picture camera," replied Casey, "with atelescopic lens. It is a piece of apparatus which Dr. Bird designedwhile he was in Washington last week and which I made from his sketches,using some apparatus we had on hand. It's a dandy, all right."

  "What is special about it?"

  "The speed. You know how fast an ordinary movie is taken, don't you? No?Well, it's sixteen exposures per second. The slow pictures are takensometimes at a hundred and twenty-eight or two hundred and fifty-sixexposures per second, and then shown at sixteen. This affair will takehalf a million pictures per second."

  "I didn't know that a film would register with that short an exposure."

  * * * * *

  "That's slow," replied Casey with a laugh. "It all depends on the light.The best flash-light powder gives a flash about one ten-thousandth of asecond in duration, but that is by no means the speed limit of the film.The only trouble is enough light and sufficient shutter speed. Pictureshave been taken by means of spark photography with an exposure of lessthan one three-millionth of a second. The whole secret of this machinelies in the shutter. This big disc with the slots in the edge is set upbefore the lens and run at such a speed that half a million slots persecond pass before the lens. The film, which is sixteen millimeterX-ray film, travels behind the lens at a speed of nearly five miles persecond. It has to be gradually worked up to this speed, and after thewhole thing is set up, it takes it nearly four hours to get to fullspeed."

  "At that speed, it must take a million miles of film before you get upsteam."

  "It would, if the film were being exposed. There is only about a hundredyards of film all told, which will run over these huge drums in anendless belt. There is a regular camera shutter working on an electricprinciple which remains closed. When the switch is tripped, the shutteropens in about two thirty-thousandths of a second, stays open just oneone-hundredth of a second, and then closes. This time is enough toexpose nearly all of our film. When we have our picture, I shut thecurrent down, start applying a magnetic brake, and let it slow down. Ittakes over an hour to stop it without breaking the film. It soundscomplicated, but it works all right."

  "Where is your switch?"

  * * * * *

  "That is the trick part of it. It is a remote control affair. Theshutter opens and starts the machine taking pictures when the back doorof the paying teller's cage is opened half an inch. There is also a handswitch in the line that can be opened so that you can open the doorwithout setting off the camera, if you wish. When the hand switch isclosed and the door opened, this is what happens. The shutter on thecamera opens, the machine takes five thousand pictures during the nexthundredth of a second, and then the shutter closes. Those five thousandexposures will take about five minutes to show at the usual rate ofsixteen per second."

  "You said that you had to get plenty of light. How are you managingthat?"

  "The camera is equipped with a special lens ground out of rock crystal.This lens lets in ultra-violet light which the ordinary lens shuts out,and X-ray film is especially sensitive to ultra-violet light. In orderto be sure that we get enough illumination, I will set up these twoultra-violet floodlights to illumine the cage. The teller will have towear glasses to protect his eyes and he'll get well sunburned, butsomething has to be sacrificed to science, as Dr. Bird is always tellingme."

  "It's too deep for me," said Carnes with a sigh. "Can I do anything tohelp? The doctor told me to stand by and do anything I could."

  "I might be able to use you a little if you can use tools," said Caseywith a grin. "You can start bolting together that light proof shield ifyou want to."

  * * * * *

  "Well, Carnes, did you have an instructive night?" asked Dr. Birdcheerfully as he entered the First National Bank at eight-thirty thenext morning.

  "I don't see that I did much good, Doctor. Casey would have had themachine ready on time anyway, and I'm no machinist."

  "Well, frankly, Carnes, I didn't expect you to be of much help to him,but I did want you to see what Casey was doing, and a little of it waspretty heavy for him to handle alone. I suppose that everything isready?"

  "The motor reached full speed about fifteen minutes ago and Casey wentout to get a cup of coffee. Would you mind telling me the object of thewhole thing?"

  "Not at all. I plan to m
ake a permanent record of the work of the mostingenious bank robber in the world. I hope he keeps his word."

  "What do you mean?"

  "Three days ago when Sturtevant sweated a 'confession' out of poorWinston, the bank got a message that the robbery would be repeated thismorning and dared them to prevent it. Rogers thought it was a hoax, buthe telephoned me and I worked the Bureau men night and day to get mycamera ready in time for him. I am afraid that I can't do much toprevent the robbery, but I may be able to take a picture of it and thusprevent other cases of a like nature."

  "Was the warning written?"

  "No. It was telephoned from a pay station in the loop district, and bythe time it was traced and men got there, the telephoner was probably amile away. He said that he would rob the same cage in the same manner ashe did before."

  "Aren't you taking any special precautions?"

  "Oh, yes, the bank is putting on extra guards and making a lot of fussof that sort, probably to the great amusement of the robber."

  "Why not close the cage for the day?"

  "Then he would rob a different one and we would have no way ofphotographing his actions. To be sure, we will put dummy money there,bundles with bills on the outside and paper on the inside, so if I don'tget a picture of him, he won't get much. Every bill in the cage will bemarked as well."

  "Did he say at what time he would operate?"

  "No, he didn't, so we'll have to stand by all day. Oh, hello, Casey, iseverything all right?"

  "As sweet as chocolate candy, Doctor. I have tested it out thoroughly,and unless we have to run it so long that the film wears out and breaks,we are sitting pretty. If we don't get the pictures you are looking for,I'm a dodo, and I haven't been called that yet."

  "Good work, Casey. Keep the bearings oiled and pray that the filmdoesn't break."

  * * * * *

  The bank had been opened only ten minutes when the clangor of gongsannounced a robbery. It was practically a duplicate of the first. Thepaying teller had turned from his window to take some bills from hisrack and had found several dozens of bundles missing. As the gongssounded, Dr. Bird and Casey leaped to the camera.

  "She snapped, Doctor!" cried Casey as he threw two switches. "It'll takean hour to stop and half a day to develop the film, but I ought to beable to show you what we got by to-night."

  "Good enough!" cried Dr. Bird. "Go ahead while I try to calm down thebank officials. Will you have everything ready by eight o'clock?"

  "Easy, Doctor," replied Casey as he turned to the magnetic brake.

  By eight o'clock quite a crowd had assembled in a private room at theBlackstone Hotel. Besides Dr. Bird and Carnes, Rogers and several otherofficials of the First National Bank were present, together withDetective-Captain Sturtevant and a group of the most prominentscientists and physicians gathered from the schools of the city.

  "Gentlemen," said Dr. Bird when all had taken seats facing a miniaturemoving picture screen on one wall, "to-night I expect to show you somepictures which will, I am sure, astonish you. It marks the advent of anew departure in transcendental medicine. I will be glad to answer anyquestions you may wish to ask and to explain the pictures after they areshown, but before we start a discussion, I will ask that you examinewhat I have to show you. Lights out, please!"

  He stepped to the rear of the room as the lights went out. As his eyesgrew used to the dimness of the room he moved forward and took a vacantseat. His hand fumbled in his pocket for a second.

  "Now!" he cried suddenly.

  In the momentary silence which followed his cry, two dull metallicclicks could be heard, and a quick cry that was suddenly strangled asDr. Bird clamped his hand over the mouth of the man who sat between himand Carnes.

  "All right, Casey," called the doctor.

  * * * * *

  The whir of a projection machine could be heard and on the screen beforethem leaped a picture of the paying teller's cage of the First NationalBank. Winston's successor was standing motionless at the wicket, hislips parted in a smile, but the attention of all was riveted on a figurewho moved at the back of the cage. As the picture started, the figurewas bent over an opened suitcase, stuffing into it bundles of bills. Hestraightened up and reached to the rack for more bills, and as he did sohe faced the camera full for a moment. He picked up other bundles ofbills, filled the suitcase, fastened it in a leisurely manner, openedthe rear door of the cage and walked out.

  "Again, please!" called Dr. Bird. "And stop when he faces us full."

  The picture was repeated and stopped at the point indicated.

  "Lights, please!" cried the doctor.

  The lights flashed on and Dr. Bird rose to his feet, pulling up afterhim the wilted figure of a middle-aged man.

  "Gentlemen," said the doctor in ringing tones, "allow me to present toyou Professor James Kirkwood of the faculty of the Richton University,formerly known as James Collier of the Bureau of Standards, and robberof the First National Bank."

  Detective-Captain Sturtevant jumped to his feet and cast a searchingglance at the captive.

  "He's the man all right," he cried. "Hang on to him until I get a wagonhere!"

  "Oh, shut up!" said Carnes. "He's under federal arrest just now, chargedwith the possession of narcotics. When we are through with him, you canhave him if you want him."

  "How did you get that picture, Doctor?" cried the cashier. "I watchedthat cage every minute during the morning and I'll swear that man neverentered and stole that money as the picture shows, unless he managed tomake himself invisible."

  * * * * *

  "You're closer to the truth than you suspect, Mr. Rogers," said Dr.Bird. "It is not quite a matter of invisibility, but something prettyclose to it. It is a matter of catalysts."

  "What kind of cats?" asked the cashier.

  "Not cats, Mr. Rogers, catalysts. Catalysts is the name of a chemicalreaction consisting essentially of a decomposition and a new combinationeffected by means of a catalyst which acts on the compound bodies inquestion, but which goes through the reaction itself unchanged. Thereare a great many of them which are used in the arts and inmanufacturing, and while their action is not always clearly understood,the results are well known and can be banked on.

  "One of the commonest instances of the use of a catalyst is the use ofsponge platinum in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. I will not burdenyou with the details of the 'contact' process, as it is known, but thecombination is effected by means of finely divided platinum which isneither changed, consumed or wasted during the process. While there area number of other catalysts known, for instance iron in reactions inwhich metallic magnesium is concerned, the commonest are the metals ofthe platinum group.

  "Less is known of the action of catalysts in the organic reactions, butit has been the subject of intensive study by Dr. Knolles of the Bureauof Standards for several years. His studies of the effects of differentcolored lights, that is, rays of different wave-lengths, on thereactions which constitute growth in plants have had a great effect onhothouse forcing of plants and promise to revolutionize the truckgardening industry. He has speeded up the rate of growth to as high asten times the normal rate in some cases.

  "A few years ago, he and his assistant, James Collier, turned theirattention toward discovering a catalyst which would do for the metabolicreactions in animal life what his light rays did for plants. What hismethod was, I will not disclose for obvious reasons, but suffice it tosay that he met with great success. He took a puppy and by treating itwith his catalytic drugs, made it grow to maturity, pass through itsentire normal life span, and die of old age in six months."

  * * * * *

  "That is very interesting, Doctor, but I fail to see what bearing it hason the robbery."

  "Mr. Rogers, how, on a dark day and in the absence of a timepiece, wouldyou judge the passage of time?"

  "Why, by my stomach, I guess."

/>   "Exactly. By your metabolic rate. You eat a meal, it digests, you expendthe energy which you have taken into your system, your stomach becomesempty and your system demands more energy. You are hungry and you judgethat some five or six hours must have passed since you last ate. Do youfollow?"

  "Certainly."

  "Let us suppose that by means of some tonic, some catalytic drug, yourrate of metabolism and also your rate of expenditure of energy has beenincreased six fold. You would eat a meal and in one hour you would behungry again. Having no timepiece, and assuming that you were in alight-proof room, you would judge that some five hours had passed, wouldyou not?"

  "I expect so."

  "Very well. Now suppose that this accelerated rate of digestion andexpenditure of energy continued. You would be sleepy in perhaps threehours, would sleep about an hour and a quarter, and would then wake,ready for your breakfast. In other words, you would have lived through aday in four hours."

  "What advantage would there be in that?"

  "None, from your standpoint. It would, however, increase the rate ofreproduction of cattle greatly and might be a great boom to agriculture,but we will not discuss this phase now. Suppose it were possible toincrease your rate of metabolism and expenditure of energy, in otherwords, your rate of living, not six times, but thirty thousand times. Insuch a case you would live five minutes in one one-hundredth of asecond."

  "Naturally, and you would live a year in about seventeen and one-halfminutes, and a normal lifespan of seventy years in about twenty hours.You would be as badly off as any common may-fly."

  * * * * *

  "Agreed, but suppose that you could so regulate the dose of yourcatalyst that its effect would last for only one one-hundredth of asecond. During that short period of time, you would be able to do thework that would ordinarily take you five minutes. In other words, youcould enter a bank, pack a satchel with currency and walk out. You wouldbe working in a leisurely manner, yet your actions would have been soquick that no human eye could have detected them. This is my theory ofwhat actually took place. For verification, I will turn to Dr. Kirkwood,as he prefers to be known now."

  "I don't know how you got that picture, but what you have said is aboutright," replied the prisoner.

  "I got that picture by using a speed of thirty thousand times the normalsixteen exposures per second," replied Dr. Bird. "That figure I got fromDr. Knolles, the man who perfected the secret you stole when you leftthe Bureau three years ago. You secured only part of it and I suppose ittook all your time since to perfect and complete it. You gave yourselfaway when you experimented on young Ladd. I was a track man myself in mycollege days and when I saw an account of his running, I smelt a rat, soI came back and watched him. As soon as I saw him crush and swallow acapsule just as the gun was fired, I was sure, and got hold of him. Hewas pretty stubborn, but he finally told me what name you were runningunder now, and the rest was easy. I would have got you in time anyway,but your bravado in telling us when you would next operate gave me theidea of letting you do it and photographing you at work. That is all Ihave to say. Captain Sturtevant, you can take your prisoner whenever youwant him."

  * * * * *

  "I reckoned without you, Dr. Bird, but the end hasn't come yet. You maysend me up for a few years, but you'll never find that money. I'm sureof that."

  "Tut, tut, Professor," laughed Carnes. "Your safety deposit box in theCommercial National is already sealed until a court orders it opened.The bills you took this morning were all marked, so that is merelyadditional proof, if we needed it. You surely didn't think that such atransparent device as changing your name from 'James Collier' to 'JohnCollyer' and signing with your left hand instead of your right wouldfool the secret service, did you? Remember, your old Bureau recordsshowed you to be ambidextrous."

  "What about Winston's confession?" asked Rogers suddenly.

  "Detective-Captain Sturtevant can explain that to a court when Mr.Winston brings suit against him for false arrest and brutal treatment,"replied Carnes.

  "A very interesting case, Carnes," remarked the doctor a few hourslater. "It was an enjoyable interlude in the routine of most of thecases on which you consult me, but our play time is over. We'll have toget after that counterfeiting case to-morrow."

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