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Cooperation and the International Criminal Court
 Nottingham Studies on
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Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations x
Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction 1

Legal Rules, Policy Choices and Political Realities in the Functioning of

the Cooperation Regime of the International Criminal Court 7
Annalisa Ciampi

The International Criminal Court Cooperation Regime – A Practical

Perspective from the Office of the Prosecutor 58
Pascal Turlan

Credible and Authoritative Enforcement of State Cooperation with the

International Criminal Court 80
Göran Sluiter and Stanislas Talontsi

Non-Compliance and the Law and Politics of State Cooperation: Lessons

from the Al Bashir and Kenyatta Cases 114
Lorraine Smith-van Lin

Practical Cooperation Challenges Faced by the Registry of the

International Criminal Court 152
Anne-Aurore Bertrand and Natacha Schauder

Non-cooperation and the Efficiency of the International

Criminal Court 185
Annika Jones

The Place of Consultation in the International Criminal Court’s

Approach to Complementarity and Cooperation 210
Nicola Palmer

Cooperation and the International Criminal Court: The Freezing,

Seizing and Transfer of Assets for the Purpose of Reparations 227
Carla Ferstman
vi Contents

Reflections of the Facilitator for Cooperation in the Hague Working

Group, 2012–2015 248
Anniken Ramberg Krutnes

A State’s Experience of Cooperation with the International Criminal

Court: The Case of Belgium 269
Gérard Dive and Julie de Hults

Strengthening the International Criminal Court Cooperation Regime

from the European Union’s Perspective 297
Christian Behrmann

Strengthening International Criminal Court Cooperation –

The Role of Civil Society 318
Matthew Cannock

Using ‘Managerial Compliance’ to Strengthen the International

Criminal Court Cooperation Regime 366
Emilie Hunter

Fostering Cooperation through Technology-Driven Tools 396

Olympia Bekou, William E. M. Lowe and Daley J. Birkett

Index 417
Foreword
The International Criminal Court (icc) cannot succeed in its mission to tackle
impunity for atrocities without cooperation from States. The necessity of
cooperation is apparent on even a cursory examination of the icc’s structure
and activities: the Court does not have a police force to arrest fugitives; it does
not have territory in which it can relocate victims and witnesses who require
protection; and its teams of investigators require access and assistance from
States in order to operate effectively. The essays in this timely collection explore
a number of current challenges affecting the Court’s international cooperation
regime. In this foreword I want to set out the importance of cooperation with
the icc and argue that States should think of cooperation with the Court as a
set of legal obligations and a partnership to achieve shared objectives of end-
ing impunity for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
States Parties to the Rome Statute of the icc have placed themselves under
a legal obligation to cooperate with the Court. In addition, two States which
are not Parties, Sudan and Libya, are under legal obligations to cooperate with
the Court pursuant to un Security Council Resolutions 1593 (2005) and 1970
(2011), respectively. The uk will continue to call on Sudan and Libya to meet
these obligations, in particular with respect to enforcement of outstanding
arrest warrants. We will continue to fulfil our own obligations to the Court and
encourage other States Parties to do likewise. In order for the icc to succeed, it
is important that States Parties look proactively at ways they can support the
Court.
First, the Court requires support at the political and diplomatic level. The
uk supports the Court in a number of ways: we encourage States to ratify or
accede to the Rome Statute and enact relevant implementing legislation; we
lobby States Parties (and non-States Parties) to cooperate with the Court; and
we use our position on the un Security Council to help ensure that interna-
tional criminal justice and icc-related issues are properly reflected in un
Security Council Resolutions. To give one practical example of our political
support for the icc, the uk, along with a number of other States Parties, has
adopted a policy of no non-essential contact with individuals subject to an icc
arrest warrant. There is no requirement in the Rome Statute to adopt such a
policy. But avoiding such non-essential contacts sends a powerful message that
there can be no ‘business as usual’ with fugitives from the Court and demon-
strates support for the icc.
Secondly, the icc requires practical support across a range of areas includ-
ing: relocating vulnerable victims and witnesses; accepting indictees on
interim release; and enforcing sentences. There is no legal obligation on a State
viii Foreword

to accept a particular witness or offer to enforce a particular sentence. But if

States do not volunteer to assist the icc in this way, the Court cannot function
effectively. The uk continues to encourage all States to support the icc, and
other international courts and tribunals, in this area. The uk is enforcing the
sentence of Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, following his convic-
tion by the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
Thirdly, for the Rome Statute system to be a success, States need to strengthen
their resolve to tackle impunity for serious international crimes domestically,
and work together to end the culture of impunity for these atrocities. The icc
operates on the basis of complementarity and is a court of last resort: its exis-
tence does not remove States’ responsibilities to address such crimes them-
selves. Furthermore, as the Preamble to the Rome Statute affirms, there must
also be enhanced international cooperation to ensure effective prosecution of
these crimes. As the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing
Sexual Violence in Conflict, I have a responsibility to help ensure that justice is
delivered for victims and that the perpetrators of these crimes are held
accountable. The uk continues to play a leading role on these issues through
the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (psvi) – which remains a key priority
for the Government. The uk supports the icc Prosecutor’s Policy Paper on
sexual and gender-based crimes.
In conclusion, the uk sees its cooperative relationship with the icc as a
partnership in pursuit of shared objectives and encourages other States to
view their interaction with the Court in the same way. But we are also con-
scious that State cooperation with the Court is only one part of the picture.
Civil society organisations have been an animating force in shaping the Court
since its inception. They have worked hard to build support for the Court
among States and with the public. International organisations, activists, survi-
vors, and other legal and academic experts also continue to play an important
role. This collection is a good example of how different experts can make a
valuable contribution to the Court’s international cooperation regime. It brings
together a range of expert perspectives from both theory and practice, address-
ing matters of law which are vital to the future of the icc as well as its current
operations. I commend it to you.

The Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns dbe

November 2015
Acknowledgements
First, the editors are grateful to the contributors to this volume, all of whom
provided timely and thoughtful contributions to what is expected will be a
valuable addition to the literature in this field. Sincere thanks are also due to
the 26 experts from academia, government, civil society and the icc who gath-
ered in Nottingham for the Expert Workshop from which this book stems.
The fruitful discussions that took place during this event stimulated a number
of the ideas explored in this book. Without the support of the University
of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre (hrlc) – and particularly its
Co-Directors, Professors David Harris and Dominic McGoldrick – which
funded the event, this project would not have been realised.
The editors wish to express their gratitude to Baroness Anelay and the War
Crimes Team at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for facilitating the
inclusion of an insightful foreword. The editors also wish to thank Ms Emma
Knight, a graduate from the ll.m. programme at the University of Nottingham,
whose assistance was invaluable during the editorial phase. Finally, thanks are
due to Ms Bea Timmer and the team at Brill Nijhoff, who ensured that the
publication process was effortless for both authors and editors from the
outset.

November 2015
Nottingham
List of Abbreviations
asp Assembly of States Parties
au African Union
car Central African Republic
cicc Coalition for the International Criminal Court
drc Democratic Republic of the Congo
eu European Union
hrw Human Rights Watch
icc International Criminal Court
ictr International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
icty International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ngo Non-governmental organisation
otp Office of the Prosecutor
RoC Regulations of the Court
rpe Rules of Procedure and Evidence
un United Nations
unsc United Nations Security Council
vwu Victims and Witnesses Unit
Notes on Contributors
Dr Christian Behrmann
Christian Behrmann, Attorney-at-Law, is Policy Officer for Global and
Multilateral Issues, European External Action Service. Before joining the diplo-
matic service, Dr Behrmann practised law in private practice, the eu institu-
tions, and the United Nations. He holds a Ph.D. in public international law and
lectures at the University of Leuven.

Professor Olympia Bekou

Olympia Bekou is Professor of Public International Law and Head of hrlc’s
International Criminal Justice Unit. A qualified lawyer, she specialises in inter-
national criminal law. Olympia has undertaken numerous capacity-building
missions, including in post-conflict situations, has provided legislation draft-
ing assistance to Samoa and Jamaica, and has been involved in training the
Thai judiciary. She is responsible for the National Implementing Legislation
Database (nild) of the icc’s Legal Tools Project and has taught law exten-
sively worldwide. In 2014, she was awarded the University of Nottingham
Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Award for Societal Impact in Social
Sciences.

Ms Anne-Aurore Bertrand
Anne-Aurore Bertrand is a lawyer from France. She has an ll.m. in uk Human
Rights and Public Law from the University of Essex. She has worked at the icc
since 2004 as an Associate Legal Officer and, since August 2010, as a Cooperation
Adviser.

Mr Daley J. Birkett
Daley J. Birkett is Legal Consultant at the United Nations Assistance to the
Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia. He previously worked as Research Associate in HRLC’s International
Criminal Justice Unit, where he assisted in the development of the Cooperation
and Judicial Assistance Database (CJAD). Daley holds an ll.m. (cum laude)
from Leiden University and lectures at the Royal University of Law and
Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Mr Matthew Cannock
Matthew Cannock has been a Legal Officer at the Coalition for the icc since
2010, coordinating advocacy on behalf of civil society on a wide-range of topics
including fair trial rights and legal representation, victims’ participation and
xii Notes on Contributors

budget advocacy. Matthew also oversees the cicc’s extensive trial monitoring
programme. In relation to cooperation, Matthew coordinates the Coalition’s
team on icc cooperation issues, which undertakes advocacy with State Parties,
and is made up of many civil society organisations active on the issue of coop-
eration with the icc. Matthew holds an ll.m. (cum laude) from Leiden
University.

Professor Annalisa Ciampi

Annalisa Ciampi, ll.m. (Harvard) has taught law at the Universities of
Catanzaro, Macerata, Trento, Florence and Panthéon-Assas (Paris ii). She has
published extensively in the fields of international and European Union law
and her areas of expertise include human rights, international criminal law,
international economic law and cultural heritage. She is currently a Full
Professor of International Law at the University of Verona. In 2005, Professor
Ciampi was a Visiting Professional in the Office of the Prosecutor, Legal and
Advisory Section, at the International Criminal Court.

Ms Julie de Hults
Julie de Hults is Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Justice of Belgium. She is
Deputy Head of the Belgium Central Authority for Cooperation with the
International Criminal Court and other International Criminal Tribunals. Julie
holds an ll.m. from the Université catholique de Louvain.

Mr Gérard Dive
Gérard Dive studied law and public international law at the Université Libre de
Bruxelles. He then worked as a researcher in International Humanitarian Law
at the same institution from 1993–1996 before entering the Belgian Ministry of
Justice in 1996. Since then, Mr Dive has acted as the Belgian negotiator at the
first and second sessions of the United Nations Preparatory Committee, the
Assembly of States Parties, and the Kampala Review Conference. He is now
President of the Belgian Task Force for International Criminal Justice. Gérard
also serves as Scientific Collaborator at the Center for International Law at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Ms Carla Ferstman
Carla Ferstman joined REDRESS in 2001 as its Legal Director and became its
Director in 2005. She was called to the Bar in British Columbia, Canada in 1994
and practised there as a criminal law barrister. She has also been a visiting
professional with Australian National University in Canberra. She obtained an
Notes on Contributors xiii

ll.b. from the University of British Columbia and an ll.m. from New York
University and is working to complete a D.Phil at the University of Oxford.
Ms Ferstman has published and is a regular commentator on victims’ rights,
the International Criminal Court and the prohibition against torture.

Dr Emilie Hunter
Emilie Hunter is a Deputy Director of the Case Matrix Network and a Fellow
of the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. Emilie has
worked for the un in Iraq, with judiciaries and government agencies in
Iran, Iraq, Kaliningrad, Malaysia, México and Thailand and with ngos in
China, Iraq, Mexico and Spain on criminal law (national and international)
and international human rights standards. She is experienced in designing
and implementing bespoke capacity building and knowledge transfer
activities and, between 2005 and 2009, she oversaw the creation and devel-
opment of the National Implementing Legislation Database of the icc
Legal Tools Project.

Dr Annika Jones
Annika Jones is a Lecturer in Law at Durham University, where she teaches
international criminal law, international human rights law and legal skills. She
was formerly Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. Annika holds a first
class degree in Law and an ll.m. in International Criminal Justice and Armed
Conflict with distinction, both from the University of Nottingham. She com-
pleted her doctoral thesis at the same institution. In 2012, she was awarded the
University of Nottingham Endowed Postgraduate Award for her doctoral
research. Her research interests largely fall within the fields of international
criminal law and post-conflict reconstruction.

Ambassador Anniken Ramberg Krutnes

Ambassador Anniken Ramberg Krutnes has been the Norwegian Ambassador
to the Netherlands since September 2011, and Luxembourg from 2012.
Ambassador Krutnes was the Facilitator of the Informal Working Group on
Cooperation of The Hague Working Group from February 2012 until December
2015. She has held a variety of positions in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Oslo – including in the Legal Department. Previously posted to the
Norwegian Embassy in Madrid and the Norwegian Delegation to the Council
of Europe in Strasbourg, before assuming the position of Ambassador in The
Hague, she held the position of Director-General for External and Internal
Services within the Ministry.
xiv Notes on Contributors

Dr William E. M. Lowe
William E. M. Lowe is a political methodologist specialising in statistical text
analysis with applications to international relations and comparative politics,
based at Princeton University. He trained as a philosopher at the University of
Warwick and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. William was then
awarded an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in cognitive science from Edinburgh University.
He since worked at Tufts, Harvard University, Trinity College, Dublin, the
University of Mannheim, and the University of Nottingham – where he col-
laborated with the Human Rights Law Centre in the development of the
National Implementing Legislation Database.

Dr Nicola Palmer
Nicola Palmer is a lecturer in criminal law at the Dickson Poon School of Law,
King’s College London. Her book, ‘Courts in Conflict: Interpreting the Layers of
Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda’ was published by oup in early 2015. She has
previously written on the transfer of cases from the ictr to the Rwandan
national courts and the domestic interpretations of international law in
Rwanda. Nicola received her D.Phil in law from the University of Oxford in
2011. Prior to this, she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda, following her undergraduate in law and economics at Rhodes
University, South Africa.

Ms Natacha Schauder
Natacha Schauder is currently the Acting Head of Operations in the Victims
and Witnesses Unit of the Registry and is responsible for the unit’s legal team.
Natacha has a Master’s degree in Human Rights Law from the Strasbourg Law
Faculty. After teaching as a Professor-Assistant for four years at the Law Faculty
and the Institute of Political Studies, Natacha worked for four years as a lawyer
at the European Court of Human Rights. Natacha joined the icc in 2007 – first
as a lawyer in the Court Management Section of the Registry, and later on in
the Victims and Witnesses Unit.

Professor Göran Sluiter

Göran Sluiter specialises in criminal law, international law and interna-
tional criminal law. Göran represents clients in all of these areas of law, in
national and international procedures. His approach to cases leverages his
years of experience as a deputy judge, and his academic knowledge of the
subject gained in his additional role as Professor at the University of
Amsterdam.
Notes on Contributors xv

Ms Lorraine Smith-van Lin

Lorraine Smith-van Lin is the former Director of the International Bar
Association’s International Criminal Court Programme with responsibility for
monitoring the cases and developments at the icc. She currently works as an
independent legal consultant on international criminal justice issues.

Mr Stanislas Talontsi
Stanislas Talontsi is a Ph.D. Researcher at the Amsterdam Center for Inter­
national Law, University of Amsterdam. Supervised by Professor Göran Sluiter,
his research explores the mechanisms to enforce cooperation in the arrest and
surrender of suspects to the icc.

Mr Pascal Turlan
Pascal Turlan is Judicial Cooperation Adviser and Head of Judicial Cooperation
in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. He previ-
ously worked as a Legal Adviser at the French Ministry of Justice. Pascal holds
an ll.m. from the College of Europe and lectures on international criminal law
and justice at Sciences Po in Paris.
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 THE MYSTERY
OF THE
FIFTEEN SOUNDS
By Van Powell

The Goldsmith Publishing Company

CHICAGO

Copyright 1937 by

The Goldsmith Publishing Company

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

9
 FOREWORD

“No wonder I’m blue,” Roger told his father, “You’re

packing to head a museum expedition into the heart of
Borneo. You’ll have thrills.”

“Probably I will get my sort of excitement in plenty,

Roger. It won’t be what you are always dreaming about
—the ‘good old days’ of Pirates and Cowboys and Stage-
Coach Bandits.”

“No,” Roger agreed, “the real thrills are all gone. But
you can go on an expedition, instead of having school
and——”

“There will be vacation time—baseball——”

“But I want real excitement. I’d like to be a Modern

Pioneer. You are one, going off to Borneo for the
museum just the way Columbus set out for Queen
Isabella.”

His father looked up.

“You can be a Modern Pioneer. I will show you a House

of Mystery, and once you step into its door you are in a
land where there are more exciting activities packed
into one day than you could get being a combination
cow-hand, bad man, pirate and pony express rider. You
may not be able to convoy an ox-team across a prairie,
carry a squirrel gun and stand off scalping Sioux; but
you will help battle against Pirate Fire, and Bad Man
Erosion, and Bandit Microbe.”

“You mean—work in cousin Grover’s research lab?”

That was it, he found. And under the brilliant training of

his older cousin, as he came to be the supply clerk and
learned more about the work of the active place, Roger
saw how truly his father had spoken.

There was fun, and mystery, and excitement, even in 10

the work. Also, there was the feeling of being a Modern
Pioneer, one who belonged to the band that had
substituted electricity and wings for ox-wagon and
candles, who gave the world instead of the pony rider
carrying news, the radio and radio-telephone. Science
was the Modern Pioneer.

Where their forefathers sought new borderlands, these

modern way-showers explore the stratosphere. As their
trail-blazing ancestors fought Indians and hardship and
poor crops, these men battle against disease germs,
and soil erosion, and eye-straining light and every other
detriment to safer, happier existence.

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announcement that a cure had been found for a terrible
disease.

On a par with Daniel Boone’s fame was the renown of

the research worker who extended the range of
compact radio receivers.

In such privately owned laboratories as that of his

cousin, Grover Brown, and in those associated with
universities and colleges and other institutions, the work
of the Modern Pioneers went on.

They loved it, found adventure in it, and joy of

achievement.

Not always was there the sort of mystery usually read

about in detective stories; but when such problems did
come up, Roger realized how the equipment of scientific
research could be a useful aid to the clever deductive
brain in solving the puzzle.

It is to show how much of adventure and thrill, 11

excitement and romance can hide behind electrical
transformers and tubes of germs, bags of sodium
carbonate and humming motors that this experience of
a boy in a scientific research laboratory is offered.
Perhaps some boy, who has almost decided that the
only “real” life involves guns and “rackets,” will be
shown how the useful life of the fellow who fights for
humanity and not against it brings more thrill and joy
and contentment than any of the risky, falsely
stimulating adventures that only lead to discredit,
sorrow and punishment.

Van Powell

13

NOTE

Names used in this story are purely fictitious and if any

name is like that of a real person it is coincidence and
no libel or aspersion on character is intended or implied.
However, every scientific device, process and theory
herein is based on electrical, chemical and other data of
developed apparatus and procedure or on theories so
far perfected as to be acceptable to Science.

15
 Contents

PAGE
Foreword 9
CHAPTERS
1. “Them Mouses Is Extraverted!” 17
2. A Creeping Thing! 23
3. A “Sound” Clue 29
4. An Electrical Trap 38
5. What Electricity Could Not Catch 44
6. A Weird Story 52
7. Science to the Rescue 60
8. Basketball and Brains 66
9. The Voice in the Silence 72
10. A Defeat for Science! 78
11. A Puzzling Thump 84
12. Detective Roger 90
13. Scientist Roger 97
14. Captive Roger 102
15. In the Lamasery 107
16. The Image Speaks 113
17. Black Silence 117
18. A Letter Roger Had Not Sent 121
19. Disquieting Deductions 127
20. Ghost Voices 131
21. Tragedy! 137
22. What Happened to the Eye of Om 143
23. The Acid Test 147
24. An Impossible Camera “Shot” 151
25. Score One for the Mystery Wizard 154
26. Roger Lists His Clues 159
27. A “Thermal” Trick 166
28. The Fuse 172
29. A Surprising Capture 176
30. The Voiceless Warning 184
31. The Hidden Menace 188
32. Science Fights Craft 191
33. A New Suspicion 195
34. Tragedy Strikes Again 201
35. The Stalking Terror 206
36. A Law of Nature 212
37. Revelation! 217
38. The Vigil 223
39. The Ape and the Kangaroo 227
40. The Mystery Wizard’s Solution 235
41. Man and Beast 241
42. Closing Time 246

17
 Chapter 1
“THEM MOUSES IS EXTRAVERTED!”

Something was wrong at the laboratory! Ringing bells,

long before dawn, awakened Roger Brown.

Dazed at first, he became alert as a strange, cold

foreboding made him leap out of bed.

“Just the telephone,” his thirty year old cousin, head of

the laboratory, called from his room beyond the
adjoining bath. Roger, who was already on his way to
the downstairs library of his cousin’s home, paused.

“No!” Well built and athletic, sharp-eyed, keen minded,

a worthy student under his brilliant scientific cousin,
Roger spoke earnestly, “It wasn’t just the protective
beam system, or just the fire alarm, either. Grover, it
was both!”

“Impossible! Why have they stopped ringing?” Tying his

robe cord, the older cousin followed Roger. He knew
that “Ear Detective’s” reputation for reading sounds,
even if his own incisive reasoning made him feel that
this time Roger had been too drowsy to live up to his
nickname.

Just the same, he followed.

“As long as the beam was broken,” he insisted, “The
bells ought to continue to ring. I think your fame as a
sound interpreter is done.”

Roger did not try to defend himself.

“It was probably a wrong number on the telephone.” 18

Grover was five steps behind his younger relative, “If
you are so sure it was our alarm system, especially both
bells, why aren’t you dressing to rush to the lab?”

“I’m getting down to be ready when Tip calls.”

Potiphar Potts, nicknamed Tip, was handy man at the

scientific research plant. He slept there. In a moment
Roger expected to have him call up to report the reason
for the alarm.

“You will never hold your reputation now.” Grover turned

at the library door as Roger, inside, stared, baffled, at
the annunciator panel.

The reputation his cousin spoke about had come when

a chemist, sent to them to help the laboratory develop a
new series of dyes for a textile mill, had begun to “hear
things.” Deaf, wearing an Amplivox, composed of a
chest microphone, batteries and an ear piece, the man
had been nearly crazed by a persecuting, accusing voice
picked up, it seemed, by his device. Roger, by
identifying an odd click he got in a makeshift imitation
Amplivox set, gave Grover the clue through which a
revengeful enemy who had sought to terrify the man
had been discovered. As The Ear Detective, Roger, who
was in charge of the laboratory stock-room, had really
been the means of solving the mystery.

“I know I heard the laboratory bells,” Roger insisted.

“But the lights on our tell-tale are not lit.”

“I can’t help it. Both the fire alarm bell and the system
that warns us if anybody enters——”

“But Potts has not called up, either. Go back to bed.”

Grover turned to leave the room. Roger, who was 19

staying with his cousin while his own father headed an
exploring expedition into Borneo for a museum, knew
that his ears had not betrayed him.

His cousin, several years before, had secured capital

with which to start a scientific research laboratory for
the use of small companies unable to maintain
equipment and an expensive staff.

Every form of research, electrical, chemical, industrial,

and in one instance medical, had been successfully
undertaken.

The “lab” prospered, and enjoyed a reputation for

scientific and human thoroughness and dependability.

Priceless secrets, formulae, data and results were

always in the laboratory, and its owner had devised
seemingly perfect methods for safeguarding the secrets
which rivals, or competing firms, might covet. A
completed series of experiments to find a synthetic
substitute for camphor gum, an industrial formula
almost beyond price, was reposing in the safe on this
early morning of Spring.

The safeguards comprised two:

There was a series of light-beams, interconnected with

microphones and tiny speed cameras, at every possible
entrance. Any broken beam, telling of wrongful entry,
set off a laboratory bell in the room where Potts slept;
and it also was wired to ring a bell at the owner’s home;
and on a panel, numbered lights would show, by the
one that glowed, which entrance had been used.

To protect the laboratory from fire, and warn of its

existence, a bell of a higher tone with a thermostat
connection in the laboratory, in each section, would give
warning; and if the blaze was in the cellar, a green bulb
would glow; if in the main floor, a red bulb, and for the
upper section a blue bulb would be lit.

Naturally, Grover felt that his younger cousin had 20

mistaken the sound that had awakened both.

Roger, still feeling his weird and unexplainable sense of

hidden danger, picked up the telephone.

The laboratory, when he dialed repeatedly and waited

long, did not respond. Tip, trusted, loyal, paid extra
salary because he was counted on not to leave the
mechanical devices to give the sole protection, should
have answered his extension telephone.

“I tell you there is something wrong,” insisted Roger.

His cousin, partly convinced, taking on some of Roger’s

concern, began to dress.

Just as he came down Roger knotted his tie.

In the car kept handy in the garage, they drove the

several blocks to the two-story building.

Before they got near it, Grover put on speed.

Fire sirens and the scream of the warning signal on a
police car made both cousins wonder what terrible
situation they might face.

Had some one, entering the laboratory, set off the first
alarm as fire broke out? Had Potts, fighting either fire or
intruder, been rendered incapable of responding to their
telephone call?

“Oh, I hope nothing has happened to Tip.”

Roger was very fond of the dull-witted, but dependable

man, almost an Albino with his sandy hair and light
eyes, who loved to use big words whether they fitted
his idea or not, and who helped in the many
mechanical, photographic and other activities involved
in their work.

The car, racing forward, turned into the proper street 21

and they saw fire apparatus gathering in front of the
building. Roger, as the car slowed, leaped out,
crouching and running to avoid being thrown down by
the momentum.

“Don’t break in!” he shouted to firemen, “Our protective

gas will prevent damage—and water would ruin our
electrical things.”

The company captain paused as he saw, behind the

youthful caller, the taller laboratory owner striding
forward.

His men, with a battering ram, delayed.

The helmeted men, some with axes, others with scaling

ladders, hose, or the rubber covers used by the
emergency squad from the Fire Underwriters, paused.
“What-da-ya mean, nothing more won’t burn?” growled
a policeman from the patrol car standing nearby.

His finger pointed toward the glass panel of the main

door.

Roger, looking in, saw the curious orange glow and the
weirdly bluish-violet splaying out across the office from
the inner spaces.

“Who—what set off the flouroscope and the X-rays?” he

gasped, while Grover reassured the gathered people.

Unobtrusively setting one foot well to the side on the

top step, so that his toe, pressed forward, found the
small protecting pin, he unlocked the door, careful to
keep the knob turned toward the left, instead of in the
natural hand-turn to the right.

That, Roger knew, cut out that particular light-beam 22

system, so that they could enter without altering the
present status of the tell-tale panel inside that would
reveal where entry had been made, and by which
magnetized plate the marauder would be held in trying
to escape.

They rushed in. His first rush took Roger to the panel.

Not a bulb glowed! He stared, unable to accept the

story it told—somebody had set off every light-beam-
trip! That put out the lights.

Not one of the row connected-in with the magnetized

plates was lit, either, and yet no living person should
have walked or crept or climbed away through door,
window, coal-chute or other exit without getting caught.
But Roger did not pause. He ran to Tip’s room.
Tip, tied tightly to a bedpost, his lips taped shut, his
eyes rolling as he sweated in his frantic effort to escape,
saw him.

Roger first took the tape off as gently as haste allowed.

Just as soon as he was able to speak, Tip gasped:

“Tell Grover them mouses ain’t is.”

“Ain’t is?——”

He knew that Potts used queer phrases, trying to fit big

words in, and this might be his way of leading up to
some puzzling declaration.

“What happened? Stop being smart, and tell me!”

ordered Roger.

“If mouses is here, you say they is here?”

“Well?——”

“They ain’t is.”

“Gone?” Roger stared, “The white rats. Gone?”

“They done extraverted.”

Roger had to study that out. He knew that the 23

psychological word was used by analysts of human
minds to indicate people whose outlook on life was
normal, while introverts were shy, timid people who
were afraid of life. “Extraverted” must mean that the
animals had turned outward toward the world—run
away, or escaped.
“But those white rats—Doctor Ryder’s—were in a cage
with a trap door on top, and they’d been inoculated with
cultures of a spinal disease,” cried Roger. “How do you
know?”

“I was up lookin’ at ’em, and somethin’ with a hand like

a ham hit me back of the ears, and when I come to,
tied, them rats was evacuated. I was drug down here by
a ape and tied. An’ there was somethin’ else I didn’t get
a look at, behind the ape.”

Was the man crazed? It worried Roger.

But a call from Grover, upstairs, quickly told him that

Potts had not been talking wildly.

“Roger,” called his cousin, “The white rats’ cage is

empty!”