Besides, I don't know anything about science,
and I'm trying to learn something about strategy. What time do you
expect to be back?"
"Rather early; ten or half-past."
"Good, I'll wait up for you."
At five o'clock Jack was at the chemist's and received his package. On
opening it he found the ozak in two four-ounce, glass-stoppered
bottles, and these be put in his pocket.
"Will you give me three spray syringes, as large a size as you have,
rubber, glass, and metal. I'm not sure but this stuff will attack one
or other of them, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life
running down to your shop."
Getting the syringes, he jumped into his cab, and was driven to the
Professor's.
"You may call for me at ten," he said to the cabman.
There were three others besides the Professor and himself, and they
were all interested in learning the latest scientific news from New
York and London.
It was a quarter past ten when the company separated. Lermontoff
stepped into his cab, and the driver went rattling up the street. In
all the talk the Prince had said nothing of his own discovery, and now
when he found himself alone his mind reverted to the material in his
pocket, and he was glad the cabman was galloping his horse, that he
might be the sooner in his workshop. Suddenly he noticed that they
were dashing down a street which ended at the river.
"I say," he cried to the driver, "you've taken the wrong turning.
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