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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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Kendrick
saw
indeed.
It
was
simple,
so
simple!
Fool--why
hadn't
he
thought
of
it?
"But
your
invention
will
never
make
you
wealthy
now,
my
dear
fellow,"
Cor
went
on,
tauntingly.
"You
will
be
our
guest,
here,
until
we
have
taken
over
your
interesting
country.
After
that,
if
there
is
any
need
for
the
broadcasting
of
heat,
we
will
furnish
it
ourselves.
We
have
those
facilities,
among
others,
fully
developed.
Would
you
care
to
see
our
plant?"
Kendrick
naturally
admitted
that
he
would,
so
the
dwarf
led
him
through
a
rear
door
and
up
a
winding
flight
of
stairs.
They
emerged
presently
into
a
great
laboratory
housed
in
the
glass-roofed
pinnacle
of
the
tower.
There
he
beheld
a
sight
that
left
him
breathless.
Never
before
had
he
seen
such
an
assemblage
of
scientific
apparatus.
Its
vastness
and
strangeness
were
fairly
overpowering,
even
to
a
man
as
well
versed
in
physio-chemical
paraphernalia
as
he
was.
Before
his
eyes
could
take
in
a
tenth
part
of
the
spectacle,
Cor
had
led
him
to
the
left
wall.
"There,"
he
said,
"you
will
observe
a
development
of
your
heat
generator."
Kendrick
looked--to
see
a
long
bank
of
large
vacuum-tubes,
each
about
three
feet
high
and
a
foot
wide,
connected
by
a
central
shaft
that
caused
series
of
little
vanes
in
each
of
them
to
revolve
at
lightning
speed.
Around
the
apparatus
moved
numerous
small
attendants,
oiling,
wiping,
adjusting
its
many
delicate
parts.
"Well,
what
do
you
think
now?"
asked
Cor.
Kendrick
made
no
reply,
though
he
was
thinking
plenty.
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