The Flaming Phantom, Chapter 2

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌​​​​​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​⁠It was ten o'clock that morning when Hutchinson Hatch called on Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen—The Thinking Machine. The reporter's face was still white, showing that he had slept little, if at all. The Thinking Machine squinted at him a moment through his thick glasses, then dropped into a chair.

"Well?" he queried.

"I'm almost ashamed to come to you, Professor," Hatch confessed, after a min