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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