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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Henderson
Blake
was
among
them,
as
was
Marjorie.
She
stepped
forward,
as
he
prepared
to
make
the
demonstration.
"I
know,
somehow,
you're
going
to
be
successful!"
she
murmured,
pressing
his
hand,
meeting
his
eyes
with
a
smile
of
confidence.
"I
hope
you're
right--Marjorie!"
he
replied,
letting
slip
the
last
word
almost
unconsciously.
Her
face
colored
warmly
as
the
stepped
back
and
rejoined
her
father.
Kendrick's
heart
was
beating
fast
as
he
turned
to
his
instruments.
How
could
he
fail,
with
faith
like
that
behind
him?--love,
even,
perhaps!
He
mustn't
fail--nor
would
he,
if
his
theories
were
sound.
Addressing
the
assemblage,
he
explained
briefly
the
complicated
apparatus.
"These
towers,"
he
said,
pointing
to
four
steel
structures
about
ten
feet
high,
arranged
at
the
corners
of
a
square
roughly
twenty
feet
across,
"are
miniature
radio
masts.
The
area
enclosed
by
them,
we
will
assume,
is
the
city
of
New
York.
That
metal
disc
suspended
above
the
area
represents
the
invader.
It
contains
a
miniature
heat-generator
such
as
I
was
experimenting
with
recently
in
the
Arizona
desert."
He
paused,
threw
a
switch.
Somewhere
in
the
laboratory
a
dynamo
began
to
whir.
"I
am
now
sending
electro-magnetic
waves
from
the
four
towers,"
he
resumed.
"But
instead
of
broadcasting
them
in
every
direction.
I
am
bending
them
in
concave
cathode
of
force
over
the
city.
You
may
picture
this
cathode
as
an
invisible
shield,
if
you
choose,
but
it
is
more
than
that.
It
it
a
reflector.
If
my
theories
are
right,
the
radio-energetic
ray
I
am
about
to
project
upon
it
from
my
miniature
disc
will
be
flung
back
to
its
source
as
though
it
had
been
a
ray
of
light
falling
on
a
mirror.
The
success
of
the
experiment
depends
upon
what
the
result
will
be."
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