human
And it takes _you_, after all, to lead us to the actual secret! he said affectionately, smiling into Mr. Narkom's astonished face.
gpt
For here's the thing in a nutshell. What a blind fool I've been all the time, old friend. Here's the murderer, the perpetrator of last night's crime--the mechanical means of doing away with human life in such a perplexing manner. Here--right here. See?
human
What the--what are you driving at, my dear chap? ejaculated the Superintendent excitedly, stooping at the pressure of Cleek's arm upon his shoulder.
gpt
This--spinning-wheel thing? You don't mean to tell me that _It_ murdered Sir Andrew, do you? Because I'm not fool enough to believe _that_ story--and not dunderhead enough to be taken in by a practical joke. What _do_ you mean, old chap? I'm on pins and needles to know.
human
And it's just those particular pins and needles of yours which have found the thing out, returned Cleek in the sharp staccato of excitement.
gpt
Look here! It's as easy as A B C--once you've got the hang of it. And that sensation of yours _was_ an electric shock all right. And it was just this spinning wheel which gave it to you. The thing's wired--see? Devilishly well done, too, and disguised very successfully. But here it is. Under the wheel. And see that funny box-like thing attached, which looks as though it belonged to a part of the machinery?--and doesn't. That's a battery, by all that's good! Now, what the dickens does that battery do, I'd like to know?... 'A whirring sound'--'hum-hum-hum!' That's how they described it to me this morning, do you remember? Gad! And this is the thing that produced that supernatural sound, then! Just a touch of a switch somewhere, and the thing sets in motion. Now let's follow this wiring along to its destination, and that will tell us a good deal.