But on closer examination
I saw that it could not be a light. The reflector seemed to have
been constructed so that in the focus was a peculiar coil of
something, and to the ends of this coil, Garrick attached two
wires which he fastened to an instrument, cylindrical, with a
broadened end, like a telephone receiver.
Dillon, who had returned by this time, after sending his chauffeur
back on his errand, appeared very much interested in what Garrick
was doing.
"Now, Tom," said Garrick, "while I am fixing this thing, I wish
you would help me by undoing that large package carefully."
While I was thus engaged, he continued talking with Dillon in a
low voice, evidently explaining to him the use to which he wished
the large reflector put.
I was working quickly to undo the large package, and as the
wrappings finally came off, I could see that it was some bulky
instrument that looked like a huge gun, or almost a mortar. It had
a sort of barrel that might have been, say, forty inches in
length, and where the breechlock should have been on an ordinary
gun was a great hemispherical cavity.
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