d in the exposed village on Palgrave
Island. It was the product of their toil that had purchased the yachts
and merchant steamers and enabled Goliah's agents to permeate society and
carry out his will. And what was the product of their toil that had
given Goliah the wealth necessary to realize his plans? Commercial
radium, the newspapers proclaimed; and radiyte, and radiosole, and
argatium, and argyte, and the mysterious golyte (that had proved so
valuable in metallurgy). These were the new compounds, discovered in the
first decade of the twentieth century, the commercial and scientific use
of which had become so enormous in the second decade.

The line of fruit boats that ran from Hawaii to San Francisco was
declared to be the property of Goliah. This was a surmise, for no other
owner could be discovered, and the agents who handled the shipments of
the fruit boats were only agents. Since no one else owned the fruit
boats, then Goliah must own them. The point of which is: _that it leaked
out that the major portion of the world's supply in these precious
compounds was brought to San Francisco by those very fruit boats_. That
the whole chain of surmise was correct was proved in later years when
Goliah's slaves were liberated and honourably pensioned by the
international government of the world. It was at that time that the seal
of secrecy was lifted from the lips of his agents and higher emissaries,
and those that chose revealed much of the mystery of Goliah's
organization and methods. His destroying angels, however, remained for
ever dumb. Who the men were who went forth to the high places and killed
at his bidding will be unknown to the end of time--for kill they did, by
means of that very subtle and then-mysterious force that Goliah had
discovered and named "Energon."

But at that time Energon, the little giant that was destined to do the
work of the world, was unknown and undreamed of. Only Goliah knew, and
he kept his secret well. Even his agents, who were armed with it, and
who, in the case of the yacht _Energon_, destroyed a mighty fleet of
war-ships by exploding their magazines, knew not what the subtle and
potent force was, nor how it was manufactured. They knew only one of its
many uses, and in that one use they had been instructed by Goliah. It is
now well known that radium, and radiyte, and radiosole, and all the other
compounds, were by-products of the manufacture of Energon by Goliah from
the