Section Eleven: Part Four (pages 253-278) Summary

The day following the arrangement, Tesla increases the price of the apparatus, but Angier agrees to the fee. Through the meetings with Tesla, Angier realizes Borden has never met with Tesla, and the information passed to him was a ruse to get him away. Tesla's work on the machine takes longer than Angier believes it should have, and they bicker about the matters of time and money. Testing on an iron rod does nothing more than provide a cold rod, and Angier becomes more irate. He states the machine will not do for his purposes, which Tesla points out were not specified. Angier informs him the machine is to transport a man. Renewed by the idea of transporting organic materials, Tesla experiments further while Angier returns to the town by a trail. In...