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He pressed his foot down on the accelerator viciously, and the car shot forward.

I'm very glad you told me that.

It gives me what you might call a personal interest in the case.

He was silent for a minute or two, and then he said, "'Did you say that German inventor's name was Eberhard?'

"'Yes.

Why?'

"'Wait a minute.

Something's coming back to me.

Eberhard.'

"'Yeah.

I'm sure that was the name.'

"'Tell me.'

"'Eberhard was the Johnny who'd got some patent process he applied to Steele.'

I can't put the thing properly because I haven't got the scientific knowledge, but I know the result was that it became so toughened that a wire was as strong as a steel bar had previously been.

Eberhard had to do with aeroplanes, and his idea was that the weight would be so enormously reduced that flying would be practically revolutionized.

The cost of it, I mean.

I believe he offered his invention to the German government, and they turned it down.

pointed out some undeniable flaw in it.

But they did it rather nationally.

So he set to work, and circumvented the difficulty, whatever it was.