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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
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"Our
guest!"
amended
Marjorie,
with
a
warm
smile.
Next
morning
Blake
motored
Kendrick
out
to
the
Brooklyn
Laboratory
of
the
Consolidated
Electric
Utilities
Corporation
and
installed
him
there.
Then
he
left--to
return
at
noon
with
the
promised
delegation
of
generals,
admirals,
statesmen
and
financiers.
They
were
all
frankly
sceptical,
though
realizing
that
Henderson
Blake
was
not
a
man
given
to
exaggeration.
Nor
did
their
scepticism
altogether
vanish
when
Kendrick
had
ended
his
bizarre
story
with
a
demonstration
of
the
invisibility
device.
Murmurs
of
amazement
ran
around
the
laboratory,
it
is
true,
but
the
more
hard-headed
of
his
spectators
charged
him
with
having
invented
the
apparatus
himself.
Though
they
didn't
come
right
out
and
say
so,
they
seemed
to
imply
that
he
was
seeking
publicity.
Annoyedly,
Kendrick
tried
to
refute
their
charges.
But
even
as
he
was
summoning
words,
refutation
utter
and
complete
came
from
the
air.
A
low,
humming
vibration
sounded,
grew
in
volume
till
it
filled
the
room--and
as
suddenly
ceased:
The
light
of
midday
faded
to
twilight.
"The
disc!"
gasped
Kendrick,
rushing
to
the
west
windows.
They
followed,
tense
with
awe.
And
there,
between
earth
and
sun,
its
myriad
towers
and
spires
refracting
a
weird
radiance,
hovered
that
vast
flying
city.
"My
God!"
muttered
a
famous
general,
staring
as
though
he
had
seen
a
ghost.
A
great
statesman
opened
his
lips,
but
no
words
came.
"Appalling!
Incredible!"
burst
from
others
of
that
stunned
assemblage.
Their
comments
were
cut
short
by
a
broadcast
voice,
thin
and
clear,
tremendously
amplified,
a
voice
Kendrick
recognized
at
once
as
that
of
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