Part of the apparatus
consisted of an elongated box lined with lead, to which were
several other attachments, the nature of which I did not
understand, and a crank-handle.
"What's that?" asked Andrews curiously, as Craig set up a screen
between the apparatus and the body.
"This is a calcium-tungsten screen," remarked Kennedy, adjusting
now what I know to be a Crookes' tube on the other side of the
body itself, so that the order was: the tube, the body, the
screen, and the oblong box. Without a further word we continued to
watch him.
At last, the apparatus adjusted apparently to his satisfaction, he
brought out a jar of thick white liquid and a bottle of powder.
"Buttermilk and a couple of ounces of bismuth sub-carbonate," he
remarked, as he mixed some in a glass, and with a pump forced it
down the throat of the body, now lying so that the abdomen was
almost flat against the screen.
He turned a switch and the peculiar bluish effulgence, which
always appears when a Crookes' tube is being used, burst forth,
accompanied by the droning of his induction-coil and the welcome
smell of ozone produced by the electrical discharge in the almost
fetid air of the tomb.
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