A few moments later the swinging rock door in the Graveyard of Genius
tilted and the two entered the strong-room, passing across the room and
out through the steel door into the cellar. Up the cellar steps they
proceeded until they reached the hall, then noiselessly they crossed
into the library. With his human companion the monster approached the
safe deliberately. Just as deliberately the Automaton reached out to
turn the handle of the combination.
There was a flash as the current passed through the arm of steel to the
foot of steel resting on the plate Locke had set in the floor. A
suppressed cry escaped from the henchman. As for the monster, he strove
with superhuman force to wrench himself away from the electric trap.
Meanwhile, up in his laboratory in the house, Locke and four men from
the Department of Justice had been waiting.
"The Department expects us to get this evidence _right_," he had
emphasized as he gave them their instructions.
Hardly had he finished when a signal light which Locke had arranged on
the wall flashed, giving the information that the trap had worked.
Out of the laboratory all piled, running down the hall, Locke paused
only a second to tap on Eva's door, as she had asked, if anything
happened, so that she might be present at the capture.
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