No one
can shoot the monster. Nothing seems to stop it. But this weapon, I
think, will at last prove a match for it."
Eva, who had always had the deepest interest in Quentin's work, listened
attentively as he explained in detail the working of the new weapon.
"And now we come to the actual loading of these asphyxiating-poison
bullets," concluded Quentin. "I really must ask you, Eva, to go into
another room, for it is dangerous work and you must not risk your life
here."
"But, Quentin," remonstrated Eva, "we've risked our lives so often
together that I have ceased to be afraid of anything."
Quentin was insistent, and finally Eva agreed.
As Doctor Q and Zita neared the former's laboratory, they saw that all
the lights in the house were out. Doctor Locke, against Zita's advice,
insisted on going in, and told his daughter to wait outside. It was then
that Zita disobeyed her father for the first time, for she flatly
refused to be left behind.
"No," she insisted. "I found a father to-night and what we must risk we
risk together. It is no worse than the peril from which I once escaped."
There was no reasoning with Zita, and they let themselves into the
little yard and went up the back steps.
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