CHAPTER IX
THE SECOND LETTER
"On Board the 'Terror'
"July I5.
"To the Old and New World,
"The propositions emanating from the different governments of Europe, as also that
which has finally been made by the United States of America, need expect no other
answer than this:
"I refuse absolutely and definitely the sums offered for my invention.
"My machine will be neither French nor German, nor Austrian nor Russian, nor English
nor American.
"The invention will remain my own, and I shall use it as pleases me.
"With it, I hold control of the entire world, and there lies no force within the reach
of humanity which is able to resist me, under any circumstances whatsoever.
"Let no one attempt to seize or stop me. It is, and will be, utterly impossible. Whatever
injury anyone attempts against me, I will return a hundredfold.
"As to the money which is offered me, I depise it! I have no need of it. Moreover,
on the day when it pleases me to have millions, or billions, I have but to reach
out my hand and take them.
"Let both the Old and the New World realize this: They can accomplish nothing against
me; I can accomplish anything against them.
"So I sign this letter:
"The Master of the World."
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