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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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"Right!"
He
held
up
his
wrist.
"See
this?
Now
watch!"
Whereupon
he
pressed
the
button.
But
to
their
dismay,
nothing
happened.
"Wa-al.
I'm
still
watchin'!"
drawled
the
officer.
"Who's
loony
now?"
Kendrick
examined
the
mechanism
in
impatience,
pressed
that
little
button
repeatedly:
but
still
nothing
happened.
"Try
yours!"
he
told
Marjorie
finally.
She
did
so,
with
similar
results--or
lack
of
them,
rather.
"Something's
wrong,"
he
said
at
length.
"The
ray
isn't
working."
"Wrong
is
right!"
declared
the
officer
with
a
contemptuous
flood
of
tobacco
juice.
"Yuh
folks
better
go
catch
yuhr
train
'fore
yuh
ferget
where
it
is."
Chagrined,
embarrassed,
they
took
their
leave,
headed
back
toward
the
railroad
station.
"Of
all
the
utterly
silly
things!"
declared
Marjorie,
as
they
walked
along.
"Why
do
you
suppose
it
didn't
work?"
Kendrick
didn't
reply
at
once.
When
he
did,
his
voice
was
grave.
"Because
the
disc
has
gone!"
he
said.
"We
are
outside
its
zone
of
influence.
That's
my
hunch,
at
least,
and
I
think
we'd
better
act
on
it."
"You
mean...?"
"I
mean
our
escape
has
probably
caused
them
to
hurry
their
plans.
They're
probably
over
New
York
right
now.
I
think
we'd
better
get
there
the
quickest
possible
way."
The
result
was
that
when
the
train
came,
they
remained
on
it
only
to
Tucson.
There
they
chartered
a
fast
plane
and
started
east
at
once.
At
sunset
the
following
day
the
plane
swooped
out
of
the
sky
and
slid
to
rest
on
the
broad
grounds
of
the
Blake
estate
at
Great
Neck.
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