Syx

Presently his mind seemed to return to the old magnet, and he whirled about and glanced down at the Syx mill.

The Moon Metal 1890

An electric indicator, of my invention, enabled me to locate the Syx tunnel when I got near it, and I have met it end on, and opened this peep-hole in order to observe the doctor's operations.

The Moon Metal 1890

As we passed the Syx mine the doctor himself confronted us.

The Moon Metal 1890

My mind was then full of suspicions concerning Syx, because I thought that a man who would fool people with one hand was not likely to deal fairly with the other.

The Moon Metal 1890

But, after thinking the matter over, he concluded that Syx was too powerful to be attacked with success, especially when the only evidence against him was that he had claimed to find artemisium in his mine at a time when, as everybody knew, artemisium actually was found outside the mine.

The Moon Metal 1890

The view was, of course, superb, but while I was admiring it in all its wonderful extent and variety, Hall, who had immediately pulled out his binocular, was busy inspecting the Syx works, the top of whose great tufted smoke column was thousands of feet beneath our level.

The Moon Metal 1890

The whole world is supplied by Syx's furnace, and Syx feeds his furnace with something that comes from his ten acres of Grand Teton rock.

The Moon Metal 1890

Syx tried to blast his rival with a glance, but knowledge is power, and my friend faced his mysterious antagonist, whose deepest secrets he had penetrated, with an unflinching eye.

The Moon Metal 1890

Behind us, somewhat north of east, lay the Syx works, with their black smoke rising almost vertically in the still air.

The Moon Metal 1890

Two days ago, after seeing what you have just witnessed in the Syx tunnel, I carefully cut out a section of the wall, making an aperture large enough to crawl through, and, when I knew the workmen were asleep, I crept in there and examined both tunnels from end to end.

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