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"Go right in there." He gaped at my arm when the bandages were off. I took a quick glance
and wished I hadn't. "How did you do this?" "Smoking in bed," I said. "Have you got ... something that...."
He caught me before I hit the floor, got me into a chair. Then he had
that Scotch he'd been wanting, gave me a shot as an... | 1 |
"He'll have it. In writing, if he wishes." "Yes, I assured him on that point. He'll be here about noon
tomorrow--it's a hundred and fifty miles from the hospital, but the
doctor flies his own plane--and the examination can start at two in
the afternoon. He seems familiar with the facilities of the
psychology department... | 1 |
"What we call Unit Eight--the heart of the drive." Then,
tight-beamed to Garlock:
"This is the thing that you designed _in toto_ and that I never could
understand any part of. All I did was build it. It must generate those
Prime fields." "Probably," Garlock flashed back. "I didn't understand it any too well
myself. Ho... | 1 |
"Excuse me," he said, "I think--"
"Thank you," said the girl. Garnet made his way back to his carriage. "They are blue," he said. THE ARRIVAL
IV
From Axminster to Lyme Regis the line runs through country as pretty
as any that can be found in the island, and the train, as if in
appreciation of this fact, does not hu... | 2 |
"Well, moderately so, Barncastle, moderately so. Fact is," said the
Duchess, "you can stir a multitude with your eloquence; you can write a
novel that so will absorb a school-girl that she can't take her eyes
from its early pages to look into the back of the book and see how it is
all going to turn out; you can talk a ... | 2 |
"Yes." . . . . "Well, take it. Pronounce my name, noting exactly the second when you
speak. I will repeat it as soon as it shall come to me, and you will
observe the exact moment when you get my answer." "Yes; and half the time between my call and your answer will exactly
indicate that which my voice will take in comin... | 1 |
What there's left of it, that is." Molly thanked him and there was a short pause, during which I felt
the speculative regard of the lieutenant. I pulled out a packet of
cigarettes, which I had opened, as always, by tearing off the top. I
happened to have it upside down and all the cigarettes fell out. Before
I could mo... | 1 |
All
three were nearly enough alike--small weapons, rather heavier than
they looked, firing a tiny ten-grain bullet at ten thousand
foot-seconds. On impact, such a bullet would almost disintegrate; a
man hit anywhere in the body with one would be killed instantly, his
nervous system paralyzed and his heart stopped by in... | 1 |
I looked down into the street, hitherto
deserted ... and into the upturned face of Fu-Manchu! Wearing a heavy fur-collared coat, and with his yellow, malignant
countenance grotesquely horrible beneath the shadow of a large tweed
motor cap, he stood motionless, looking up at me. That he had seen me,
I could not doubt; b... | 3 |
Drawing herself to her full height, she tossed
back her head and flung out her arms before her. "No one can know I am afraid--but you," she said. "And I--shall forget." She dropped her arms and stood passive. "I go now to take the drug--there in the little garden behind, where no
one can notice. You will come down?" Th... | 1 |
But each face she looked at was the same. Watching them dissolve and
regrow in the nutrient solution, she had only been able to guess at the
horror of what was happening. Now she knew. They were all the same lean-boned, blond-skinned face, with a
pin-feather growth of reddish down on cheeks and scalp. All
horribly--and... | 1 |
But to anyone who knew him as intimately as I
did, such an hypothesis is untenable; nor, if admitted, would it explain
some of the strangest incidents. Moreover, it was strongly negatived by
Dr. Frobisher, from whose verdict in such matters there was at the time
no appeal, by Dr. Dobie, and by Dr. Bruton, who had known... | 0 |
It was poor stuff, no
doubt--what else could one expect?--but it was a start. He would tell
them what was wrong with it, and they would try again. Literary criticism, armaments, tariffs, manners--there was no end to it. "What else?" Luke stepped forward. "The plans for the large weapons You commanded
Your servants to d... | 1 |
And I see he begun to be
impressed. How true it is that, from the Bible down to Josiah Allen's Wife, you
have to talk in stories in order to impress the masses! You have to hold
up the hammer of a personal incident to drive home the nail of Truth and
have it clench and hold fast. But mine wuz some different--mine wuz f... | 2 |
"Would you mind informing Spider Reilly
of that fact? It will make life pleasanter for all of us." "Mr. Scobell sent me along here to ask you to come and talk over this
thing with him. He's at the Knickerbocker. I've a cab waiting outside. Can you come along?" "I'd rather he came here." "And I bet he'd rather come here... | 2 |
Further, I believe you are Terran
and I will not deal with you. And finally, you have twice saved my life
and I would find small pleasure in torturing you. I say no. Drink again
with me and we part without a quarrel." Beaten, I turned to go. "Wait," said Dallisa. She stood up and came down from the dais, slowly this ti... | 1 |
Dowson said, waving a hand at them. "You may feel that poking fun at insanity is humorous, Mr. Malone, but
let me tell you--"
"It wasn't like that at all," Boyd said. "And," Dr. Dowson continued in a somewhat louder voice, "wanting to
take Mr. Logan away from us. Mr. Logan is a very sick man, Mr. Malone. He should be ... | 1 |
My eyes clamped shut against the monstrous blaze of heat and light. Then, Snow's hand tightly gripped in mine, I was enveloped in inky
blackness, with nothing but empty air beneath the soles of my boots. And falling. 20
"Snow! Darling, are you all right?" I asked, getting groggily to my
feet and pressing her hand bet... | 1 |
of his
unfinished paper on "Snake Poisons and Their Antidotes." By chance he
pulled out the brief account, written the same morning, of his uncanny
experience during the night. He read it through reflectively. It was incomplete. A certain mental haziness which he had noted upon
awakening had in some way obscured the fa... | 3 |
The fortress-castle
of Oscarburg, on the lonely wooded shore of Viborg Bay, had kept many a
secret safely before now, and it would keep this one. Every retainer in
the Castle, every man, woman, and child on the estates for leagues
around, was his, body and soul, as their fathers before them had been
the blind, unquesti... | 1 |
"What the devil do you mean by entering my room?" A tall, irate man, with the Army stamped all over him, dressed in
pyjamas, with a monocle firmly wedged in his left eye, was fiercely
eyeing a smaller man in a bath-robe. "Not content with having got into my room, but damme, sir, you must
needs try and get into my trous... | 2 |
answered Connel. "What?" exclaimed Roger, momentarily forgetting he was addressing a
senior officer. "How in blazes are you going to do that?" Connel turned to the chart-screen projector and switched it on. Immediately an image of Earth and its Moon, and much farther away the
sun, was visible. Connel stepped to the scr... | 1 |
"Events have been moving somewhat rapidly since then," said Challenger,
picking up his pile of telegrams. "I am in close touch both with the
authorities and with the press, so that news is converging upon me from
all parts. There is, in fact, a general and very insistent demand that I
should come to London; but I see n... | 1 |
But
she looked real mauger, and I sez:
"You look kinder beat out, Jane Olive, hain't you well?" Yes, she said she wuz well, but had so many cares that they wore on her. "Why," sez I, "you don't try to do your housework alone, do you?" No, she said she had ten servants. So I knowed she didn't have to do the heaviest of... | 2 |
I shall watch till the end. Then he heard a faint, faint
noise. From somewhere there was a humming. The merest shadow of a hum,
and Robin listened to it, startled. The humming rose in pitch, it
was no dream, and as he sat, mouth open, amazed, there was a thin,
high-pitched screaming outside the rocket and he suddenly b... | 1 |
"Well, Axel, there is a very simple answer to your objection that
this soil is alluvial." "What! at such a depth below the surface of the earth?" "No doubt; and there is a geological explanation of the fact. At a
certain period the earth consisted only of an elastic crust or bark,
alternately acted on by forces from ab... | 1 |
"What a horrible-looking man!" said Billie, breaking it with a little
gasp. Jno. Peters often affected the opposite sex like that at first
sight. "I beg your pardon?" said Sam absently. "What a dreadful-looking man! He quite frightened me!" For some moments Sam sat without speaking. If this had not been one of
his Napo... | 2 |
We
bring you knowledge and skills and our own need, they said in effect, we
will be an asset to your country if you admit us. The Americans could
not understand; they themselves had been fair to all and only kept out
undesirable immigrants. Gradually the world geared itself to a slower tempo. The gogetter
followed the ... | 1 |
It was one of these extremely local tempests which expend all their
principal fury over a small space of country; and, in this instance, the
space seemed to include little more than the river, and the few meadows
which immediately surrounded it, and lent it so much of its beauty. Marchdale soon found that his cries wer... | 0 |
Outside there was the occasional cry of some animal in alarm
or pain, or calling to its mate, and the intermittent sounds of the
Malay and Dyak servants. Presently one of the men began a queer
chanting song, in which the others joined at intervals. After this it
would seem that they turned in for the night, for no furt... | 1 |
Without conscious
volition, Howell's pistol was out and he was thumbing the safety off. The Svant stopped short, then dropped the knife, ducked his head,
and threw his arms over it to shield his comb. He backed away a few
steps, then turned and bolted into the nearest house. The others,
including the woman in the ragge... | 1 |
"And then?" I said huskily--for my heart was fluttering like a captive
bird. "Alas! from that day to this I see her no more, my gentlemen. I travel
not only in Egypt but near and far, and still I see her no more until
in Rangoon I hear that which brings me to England again"--he extended
his palms naïvely--"and here I a... | 3 |
I think
I can convince you that I am _not_ suffering from space-shock. I've
found Miss Ramsey. She's been badly hurt and needs immediate medical
attention." The Commander looked as if a man he had thought sane was standing
before him with a gun in his hand. Not Corriston, but some other, more
violent man. For a moment ... | 1 |
With upraised weapon I gazed
cautiously out. Miko had disappeared. The deck within my line of
vision, was empty. But was it? Something told me to beware. I clung to the casement,
ready upon the instant to shove myself down. There was a movement in a
shadow along the deck. Then a figure rose up. "Don't fire, Haljan!" Th... | 1 |
As she ascended the stairs, her fit of temper at the Doctor passed, and
she felt lonely, weary, and unutterably miserable. She sank to a seat
on the topmost step and gave herself over to bitter reflections. Nick was gone! The realization came poignantly at last; there would be
no more evening rides, no more conversatio... | 1 |
Prepare yourself!' When the Mantis' head finally did appear, leering in at them
ominously, she found doing exactly as he told her infinitely easier than
not doing it. She clung to him as if possessed, and the Mantis'
first glimpse of them was exactly as Kalus had wanted it. Akar stood
submissively to one side, allowing... | 1 |
Colonel Paula Quinton wanted to know. Her military
education was progressing, but it still had a few gaps to fill in. "The next time they're air-struck, they won't stay bunched,"
Mordkovitz replied. "A lot of them didn't stay bunched this time, if
you noticed. And they'll keep out from between the fences." In the large... | 1 |
The arrow caught the doe full in the side, and in the same moment Nobs
was after her. She turned to flee with the two of us pursuing her,
Nobs with his great fangs bared and I with my short spear poised for a
cast. The balance of the herd sprang quickly away; but the hurt doe
lagged, and in a moment Nobs was beside her... | 1 |
He
might have no soul, but a lifetime of being an overseer had given him
habits that replaced the need for what had been a pretty slim soul to
begin with. "Quitters!" he yelled. "Lazy, worthless, work-dodging goldbrick
artists!" He knelt in fury, thumbing back the eyelids of the corpses. There was little need for the t... | 1 |
Drinking and walking is what the
doctors prescribe and I d'no but what the walking in the invigorating
mountain air does as much good as the water. The doctor generally
makes you drink a glass about seven in the morning, then take a little
walk, then drink another glass, and another little walk and so on
until about ei... | 2 |
When he went for his constitutional that day
he was still chuckling at the absurd story his paper would have had him
believe. Wasps indeed--killing a dog! Incidentally as he passed by the
site of that first crop of puff-balls he remarked that the grass was
growing very rank there, but he did not connect that in any way... | 1 |
The loudspeaker said severely: "_The checking should have been done
earlier!_"
There was silence. Mike and Joe, together, painstakingly checked over
the very many items that had to be made sure. Every rocket had to have
its firing circuit inspected. The tanks' contents and pressure verified. The air connection to Mike... | 1 |
Up to a certain point it
maddens almost beyond endurance; but, that point past, it soothes. At least, it was so in my case. Gradually I found myself hating
him less. Soon I began to listen, then to answer. Before I left
the club that night, the first mad frenzy, in which I could have
been capable of anything, had gone ... | 2 |
A desperate effort was in me to say the strong, sensible thing which
should destroy the oppressive horror that grew so stiflingly about us
both, but again the mirror drew the attempted smile into the merest
grin, betraying the distortion that was everywhere in the place. "You mean," I stammered beneath my breath, "that... | 0 |
"I do," he answered. "It may be that it is something in
my temperament, I suppose one would call it a sort of
spiritual mindedness. But I think of it all constantly. Often as I stand here beside the window and see these
cars go by"--he indicated a passing street car--"I cannot
but realise that the time will come when I... | 2 |
Brutal? You bet it was, but I couldn't
afford to take any chances on his coming to. What would you have done? If I'd killed him right then and there, the
Board would not have censured me. I was sure of that. Not to have done
so was perhaps foolish, a weakness in me. I was cutting down my chances
of getting as far as th... | 1 |
Mr Bickersdyke seemed to think them so. He rose again, and returned to
the first room. 'I have made you restless,' said Psmith, in a voice of self-reproach,
when he had settled himself once more by the manager's side. 'I am
sorry. I will not pursue the subject. Indeed, I believe that my fears
are unnecessary. Statistic... | 2 |
It's Dan. Daniel Crowley." The three of them looked at him in bewilderment. The ape was beginning to shimmer as though he was being seen through a
window wet with driving rain. "Don's my goody-goody brother. Used to live in the same house with me,
but ever since we were kids and I got picked up on a juvenile delinquent... | 1 |
_Mrs. L.-C._ And I never knew a woman who couldn't work and talk bonnets
at the same time. _Mrs. C._ Just a few palms--don't you think, Mrs. Bulkwise?--in those
dreary, _dreary_ rooms, and some oriental rugs on the floors, and a
little bunch of flowers on each desk would make life so much easier to
live. [_Colonel Bulk... | 2 |
It's frozen solid. It would take almost a year to get to it on Abbot drive, and if your
ship has Dillinghams, why not take a little longer and go to a good
planet? So nobody bothered with Abaddon." But for Dunnan's purpose, it would be perfect. He called Prince
Bentrik and Alvyn Karffard to him; they found the idea ins... | 1 |
The minutes passed; the silence lengthened out, and at last
after an hour of security my courage began to return to me. By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion
made me... | 1 |
Therefore, if father had not made a fortune
he would not have bullied her. Practically, in fact, if father
did not bully her he would not be rich. And if he were not rich--
She took in the faded carpet, the stained wall paper and the
soiled curtains with a comprehensive glance. It certainly cut
both ways. She began to... | 2 |
On coming close to their victims they found them to
measure twelve feet from tip to tip, and to have a tremendous
thickness of feathers and down. "From the looks of these beauties," said Bearwarden, "I should
say they probably inhabited a pretty cold place." "They are doubtless northern birds," said Cortlandt, "that ha... | 1 |
To steady himself he shut his
eyes, shook his head as though to clear it, then looked again at that
strip of metal in his hand. Attached to it were two slender strips of
leather like straps, ending in small, bronze buckles. "Why, it's not from the plane," he stammered aloud. "Damned if it
doesn't look like a greave the... | 1 |
Aga's burned corpse. The cutlass was lying by her side, assuring him of her identity. Re-oriented, he turned back, still pulling Amra by the hand. This time
he ran into a wall, but he had his free hand stretched out in front of
him for just such an event. Frantically, he groped to his left until
he came to the corner o... | 1 |
"'Look what I worked out, with a little, minor help from one of the
employees in my sector.' "But I've seen that line worked before, Bond, and worked smoothly. You
don't catch the Old Man napping so easily as that." He paused. "Of course we don't know whether or not this device is going to be of
any real use. But we do... | 1 |
"May I speak?" Reiner asked icily. The old man nodded and re-lit his cigar. "I have been called--behind my back, naturally--a fanatic," Reiner
said. He pointedly did not look anywhere near F. W. Taylor as he spoke
the word. "Perhaps this is correct and perhaps fanaticism is what's
needed at a time like this. Let me poi... | 1 |
"Your eyes drive me mad!" he hissed. "Your lips taunt me, and I know
all earthly greatness to be a mirage, its conquests visions, and its
fairness dust. I would rather be a captive in your white arms than
the emperor of heaven! Your sweetness intoxicates me, Miska. A fever
burns me up!" Helpless, enmeshed in the toils ... | 3 |
Well, he drew himself up proudly, there was a way. He was not afraid to
die. "Whoa, now, wait a minute. Let's think this out. Death's no answer." For a new idea had just struck him. He forced the worry, the fear,
the ... the self-pity ... from his mind, and settled down to consider
this new concept. Maybe it wasn't as ... | 1 |
They had one proverb that embraced it all: "Labor is
the necessity of life." I studied this peculiar phase of Mizora life,
and at last comprehended that in this very law of social equality lay
the foundation of their superiority. Their admirable system of adapting
the mind to the vocation in which it was most capable o... | 1 |
West, that this explanation corresponds with the facts
as you observed them?" "Entirely so," I replied. "It might be added, too, that the changes in
fashions were greatly fomented and assisted by the self-interest of vast
industrial and commercial interests engaged in purveying the materials of
dress and personal belon... | 1 |
The dark blur of struggling Tartars and Mamelukes grew rapidly larger. Qutuz's banner was nowhere to be seen, but the beast-tail Tartar
standard rose up in the west, and Kalawun's black banner was waving far
to the north. They were coming on the Tartar horsemen from the flank and rear. Daoud
was close enough to see fac... | 1 |
"We accept," I answered; "only I will ask your permission, sir, to
address one question to you--one only." "Speak, sir." "You said that we should be free on board." "Entirely." "I ask you, then, what you mean by this liberty?" "Just the liberty to go, to come, to see, to observe even all that
passes here save under rar... | 1 |
Don't you know
that the heir to the title always goes on a yachting cruise, with
his whole family, and gets drowned--and the children too? It
happens in every English novel you read." "Listen, Aline! Let us get this thing straight: I have been in
love with you since I wore knickerbockers. I proposed to you at
your firs... | 2 |
And Joe was
very glad they did make it before then. He wouldn't have liked to be
merely astride a skinny framework in that ghastly darkness, with the
monstrous blackness of the Abyss seeming to be trying to devour him. Haney met them in the airlock. He grinned. "Nice job, Joe! Nice job, Chief!" he said warmly. "Uh--the... | 1 |
But a moment later I saw it--a small black oblong bundle--hovering
beside us. It was perhaps a hundred feet away, circling us. Held by the
Planetara's bulk, it had momentarily become our satellite. It swung
around us like a moon. Gruesome satellite, by nature's laws forever to
follow us. Then from another tube at the b... | 1 |
He knew not whether they
were players, men that would vanish suddenly as they came, disappearing
by the track that climbed the hill; or whether they were indeed
magicians, workers of great and efficacious spells, who knew the secret
word by which the earth may be transformed into the hall of Gehenna, so
that they that ... | 0 |
"What?" He was settling himself beside the mouth of the crack, where a
man would have to come clear inside to get a shot at him. "A starship implies the intention to go to the stars. Why haven't you?" "For the simplest reason in the world," said Shearing bitterly. "The
damn thing can't fly." "But--" said Hyrst, in asto... | 1 |
"What I call you if I not call you father?" "Don't call me anything. Say 'sir.' What did you want to say?" "Father, sir," began Brute again, "Adam forget. Adam fall." With a muted roar, Adam swept his powerful arm in a backhanded arc that
caught Brute full on the side of his head. The blow would have felled an
ox, but ... | 1 |
Wayne bent and, for good measure,
took off the man's helmet and tapped him none too gently on the skull. There was the sound of footsteps, the harsh _chitch-chitch_ of feet
against the rock. "He's up that way," he heard a deep voice boom. That meant the others had heard the rock hitting Hollingwood's plexalloy
helmet. ... | 1 |
Your boss said "Trail along." Well, do it, then. I
should hate to lose you. I don't suppose you know it, but you've been
the best mascot this tour that I've ever come across. Right from the
start we've been playing to enormous business. I'd rather kill a black
cat than lose you. Drop the disguises, and stay with us. Co... | 2 |
"Part! No!" "You have thought?" he insisted. "I will not part." She took his hand. "If this meant death, _now_, I
would not let you go." "If it meant death," he said, and she felt his grip upon her fingers. He looked about him as if he feared to see the little people coming as
he spoke. And then: "It may mean death." | 1 |
Now, have you had any information on
Kennedy since I called last?" "Hm, no. I did mention to Thomson, as you asked me to, that I'd heard
rumors of some revolutionary encephalographic techniques and would be
interested in seeing the work. Why did you want me to do that?" "Thomson," said Fraser, "is one of Kennedy's men.... | 1 |
"O.K., Tom, I'm sorry," he said. "O.K.,
let's get back to work," ordered Tom. Back at the _Polaris_, as they continued cleaning the hull of the ship,
Tom saw the two men disappear into their craft, throwing dirty looks
back at the three cadets as they went. "You know, Roger, I think you made a very bad mistake," he sai... | 1 |
He might know that a rocket doesn't go where it's
pointed, as a matter of theory. He might even know intellectually that
the final speed and course of a rocket is the sum of all its previous
speeds and courses. But he hadn't used the knowledge Joe and the Chief
had. Something rushed at them. They went into evasive acti... | 1 |
He knew he was not alone in this, for the arresting planes of
her face, the dramatic color of her rustling taffeta gowns, attracted
many followers. He would sit in the lounge at night and watch her
dancing, and then realize, suddenly, that she had disappeared, long
before the evening was over. She was an elusive creatu... | 1 |
But I will not hamper your
escape. Burdened with me you would fail. Nay, do not fear for me. They
will never suspect that I aided you willingly. Go! What you have just
said will glorify my life throughout the long years.' He caught her up in his iron arms, crushed her slim, vibrant figure to
him and kissed her fiercely... | 1 |
"It's the journey, dude, not the destination -- the act
of organizing all these people, of putting up the APs, of advancing the
art. It's all worthwhile in and of itself." Kurt shook his head. "You want to eat Vietnamese?" "Sure," Alan said. "I know a place," he said, and nudged the car through traffic and on to
the Do... | 1 |
Later, Sola, with the aid of several of the other women, remodeled the
trappings to fit my lesser proportions, and after they completed the
work I went about garbed in all the panoply of war. From then on Sola instructed me in the mysteries of the various
weapons, and with the Martian young I spent several hours each d... | 1 |
"None of the rest of
the staff will come in until we're through." Colonel Mannheim looked at the biophysicist speculatively. "You seem to
think secrecy's important all of a sudden." Bart Stanton grinned and kept silent. Dr. Farnsworth went over to a table, where an urn of coffee radiated soft
warmth. "Cream and sugar o... | 1 |
Of course, if anything
happens to the old man, then we get it all. I don't think
he'll last long. I notice him each day, how weak he's
getting. My son in the business? Well, I'd like him to be. But he
don't seem to take to it somehow--I'm afraid he takes
more after his mother; or else it's the college that's
doing it. ... | 2 |
Continually he was thrown into the rough wall at his right by the
centrifugal force of the asteroid. How far did the passageway extend? Was Ku Sui at the end of it? It occurred to the Hawk that the asteroid
was a developing shooting star, eating up the few hundred miles of
life that remained, streaking down into the at... | 1 |
Show a picture of what
you see. Are the slaves escaping?" "Everything's all right," Sherman sent back. "Something broke loose down
below and I stumbled trying to look at it." He closed his eyes, forming
a mental picture of the hall, with everything in order, then one of the
passage, and reached up and detached the helm... | 1 |
But
there are one or two things I should like to get settled in my mind.' He meditated for a long while, pacing up and down the room. Light after
light was extinguished in Edna Road, and the people of the suburb slept
all around him, but still the gas was alight in Darnell's drawing-room,
and he walked softly up and do... | 0 |
* * * * *
Ambition has many origins. The urge to return home became a drive. The
result was Junior Spaceman Howard Reed's complete preoccupation with
the mathematics known as Hansen's Folly. As the months went by he exhausted his original knowledge. He took to
the library, to the local schools,... | 1 |
It would detect those immediately and I would only
stand convicted as a liar or worse. Tonight's events might well spell
the end, the closing of the door just when I thought I stood on the
threshold of a momentous discovery....
* * * * *
Cephalon Ariz. Nov. 11th. Went to the P. G. last ... | 1 |
He remembered now the skulking figure he had seen outside the house. There were more than two, for now he heard other voices, and some one
calling Targo's name. He held the girl closer and stood motionless. Like rats in a trap, he
thought. He felt the fingers of his right hand holding something heavy. It was a piece of... | 1 |
Where will you find a cooler spot?" "Oh, it's cool enough anywhere! Let's go back," she replied, starting to
return as she spoke. She saw his excitement, and, being herself a little
confused, had no idea of allowing a scene to be precipitated just then. She flitted on before with so light a foot that he did not overtak... | 1 |
"I will reorganise my campaign. First the
skirmishers, then the real attack. I will peg along with verses till
somebody begins to take my stories and articles." I felt easier in my mind than I had felt for some time. A story came
back by the nine o'clock post from a monthly magazine (to which I had
sent it from mere br... | 2 |
"What's the meaning of this?" he muttered. "What was the idea?..." He picked it up examined it. Then he gave a grin and a click of the tongue
and chuckled, slowly:
"Don't move an eyelash, my dear. Let all these people clear off. All this
is no business of ours, is it? The troubles of police don't concern us. We
are tw... | 3 |
"Naturally you doubt me, my boy, naturally. All you need do is to wait
until Friday the thirteenth and if I'm right you'll know it and if I'm
wrong you'll know it. But I assure you that I am not wrong. The war is
over and Roosevelt is the only obstacle to certain long-range practical
arrangements for organizing the pea... | 1 |
"How can that possibly be?" "Mr. West, we are losing some charming music," was her only reply to
this, and turning to the telephone, at a touch of her finger she set
the air to swaying to the rhythm of an adagio. After that she took good
care that the music should leave no opportunity for conversation. She
kept her fac... | 1 |
This room is free of ammonia
gas." "But how in the star-blazing dickens can they keep it out of here when
everything else outside is flooded with it?" asked Tom. Astro spun around and began to examine the walls. "Just as I thought!" he exclaimed. "This room is airtight! Sealed! Oxygen is being pumped in
here." "From wh... | 1 |
My message was in code, but it could be quickly broken if someone wanted
to try hard enough. I took it to the message center myself. The psiman
was in his transparent cubicle and I locked myself in with him. His eyes
were unfocused as he spoke softly into a mike, pulling in a message
from somewhere across the galaxy. O... | 1 |
She said unsteadily, "Holding the wire, I smell that
horrible smell." He put his hand on the wire's end. He shared the sensation. "Terror beam across the highway," he said calmly. "Maybe on our
account, maybe not. But there was a side road a little way back." He backed the car. He'd smashed the backing lights, too. He ... | 1 |
I only want to
know what it is that he is after. In the quiet hours when we are
alone with ourselves and there is nobody to tell us what fine
fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a weak moment in which we
wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we are
becoming, but what good we are doing. If a barri... | 2 |
It makes terrible hams of them all. He spat on the
floor. "A living doll," I said. I took a better look at this honey. Face it, he
was an oily snake, cleaned up as much as possible, but not enough. No
amount of dude ranch duds, gold spurs or Indian jewelry could hide his
stiletto mentality. He was just a Tenderloin hoo... | 1 |
"Very well," he said, finally, "It was nice knowing you." "Shut the door quietly on the way out," she retorted. He stared at her, his face revealing nothing. He turned, went to the
door, and opened it. He looked back. She had not moved. He left without
a word. Rhoda Kane lit another cigarette. She stared out across the... | 1 |
I put
the gun away and stood up. I had a feeling I would have to put it over now or not at all. "The rest of the squadron is still out there. If we don't show, they'll
carry on alone. They're supplied for a century's operation. They don't
need us." That was true up to a point. The squadron had everything--except fuel. ... | 1 |
When they sank out of sight it was supposed that the god had accepted
the present, and would show his gratitude for it by favoring winds and
peaceful weather. "A thousand years afterward history speaks of the occurrence derisively,
as an absurd superstition, and at the same time they believed in and
lauded a more absur... | 1 |
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