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"You know me, Tibbetts," he said "I never speak about e my own point of view than otherwise"

"I've never noticed that," said Bones

"You know, anyway," urged Jelf, "that I want to see the bad side of

anything I take up"

He explained how he had sat up night after night, endeavouring to

discover some drawback to the Tibbetts-Jelf La, exhausted by the effort

"If I could only find one flaw!" he said "But the ingenious beggar

who invented it has not left a single bad point"

He went on to describe the lamp With the aid of a lead pencil and a

piece of Bones's priceless notepaper he sketched the front elevation

and discoursed upon rays, especially upon ultra-violet rays

Apparently this is a disreputable branch of the Ray faet an ultra-violet ray as he was sneaking out of the lamp,

and hit hi a

service to science and humanity

This lamp was so fixed that the moment Mr Ultra V Ray reached the

threshold of freedom he was tripped up, pounced upon, and beaten until

he (naturally enough) changed colour!

It was all done by the lens