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DuQuesne was in his laboratory, poring over an abstruse article in a foreign journal of science, when Scott came breezily in with a newspaper in his hand, across the front page of which stretched great headlines.
"Hello, Blackie! " he called. "Come down to earth and listen to this tale of mystery from that world-renowned fount of exactitude and authority, the _Washington Clarion_. Some miscreant has piled up and touched off a few thousand tons of T. N. T. and picric acid up in the hills. Read about it, it's good."