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A speaker under the viewport throbbed with the sound of a human voice. "Auto-shuttle SC 539, attention. You are assigned landing slot seven-three-one, Port Chicago. I repeat, seven-three-one. Dial that destination. Do you read me?" Three times the message was repeated before Mryna concluded that it was meant for her.
The young inventor did not know that a key was missing from his ring, nor, as he twirled the dial of the combination-lock, did he realize that a slender lever had been severed from below, thus rendering useless the intricate mechanism. "Who done dis to you', Massa Tom?" asked Rad. "Wish I knew. Anyhow, there's been no damage done except to me! My head's splitting, so I must get to bed.
Although Florent deserved praise for the cheerfulness of which his reply was proof, the first moments which he spent alone after the departure of his two witnesses were very painful. That which Chapron experienced during those few moments was simply very natural anxiety, the enervation caused by looking at the clock, and saying: "In twenty-four hours the hand will be on this point of the dial.
On his kitchen wall hangs the year clock. It has only one hand, and the figures on its face run from one to fifteen. Each figure represents one of your years, but the hand of the clock has to go completely around the dial and reach the figure fifteen before the Magician counts a year. In therefore what has been five years to us in the Magician's house has been seventy-five years to you.
In the apparatus which will probably be in use during the twentieth century, each subscriber will have a dial carrying on its face the names and numbers of all those with whom he is in the habit of holding communication.
"Looks as though we were stuck, all right," was McClure's solitary comment as he gazed again at the depth dial. The engines now were shut down, the air pumps had ceased working. There was not a sound throughout the submersible, except the low drone of the electric fans that swept the air along the passageways. Every man waited in stoical silence a further word from his chief.
Since revolutions are inevitable, let us try at least to make them profitable." They are always talking about the people who are ruined by revolutions, but perhaps the number of those enriched by revolutions is still greater. The Americans experience the attraction of Paris very strongly. There is no town in the world where it is easier or more agreeable to spend a great dial of money.
Seeing myself unobserved, I took the old-fashioned key that dangled from the chain and quickly turned back the hands of the watch a full hour; then, closing the case, I handed Bartine his property and saw him replace it on his person. "I think you said," I began, with assumed carelessness, "that after eleven the sight of the dial no longer affects you.
Every minute all the night he shall wink, just for kindness and good luck to all the world, till the daylight." On the ninth of November, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Baptiste went into the tower to see that the clockwork was in order for the night. He set the dial on the machine, put a few drops of oil on the bearings of the cylinder, and started to wind up the weight.
As I ran now I could see a huge phantom clock, the dial marked with enormous Roman letters, and the hands moving with dreadful swiftness toward the hour of nine. I had underestimated Leroux's shrewdness.
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