Chapter

 1 1 |          gave prompt echo to the public terror. The entire district
 2 4 |         my return to Washington, public attention was wholly distracted
 3 4 |          some unknown fluid.~The public imagination, highly excited,
 4 4 |       two hundred miles an hour. Public security demanded that some
 5 4 |          take steps against this public danger. To arrest or even
 6 5 | accomplish beyond satisfying the public curiosity and my own?~My
 7 5 |        The great majority of the public refused to accept this conclusion.
 8 5 |     invention, sought to attract public attention and to astound
 9 5 |         interfere to protect the public ways of travel.~That is
10 6 |          security of the general public. To be sure, only the inhabitants
11 6 |        crowded to the front. The public of two continents was interested.
12 7 |          and that of the general public in the previous mysteries
13 8 |        imply their identity. The public, grown blase with so many
14 8 |       his duty of protecting the public. How could we arrest criminals,
15 8 |      easily imagine how high the public curiosity rose. From morning
16 8 |         The whole world became a public market, an auction house
17 10|         the first comment of the public would be, “This is the work
18 10|      warning.”~All that day, the public excitement caused by the
19 10|          and at the Capitol that public opinion absolutely demanded
20 10|          constituted a perpetual public danger!~Influenced by these
21 10|      Terror’ has refused to make public his invention, at any price
22 10|        his machine constitutes a public menace, against which it
23 10|         the excited state of the public imagination, apparitions
24 16|         the entire world, as his public letter had suggested by
25 17|        that the attention of the public was now keenly fixed upon
26 18|        and even the lives of the public must have been forever in