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Updated: May 24, 2025
For just an eyebeat he hesitated before he said, "I've seen him before somewhere." "We must take him to the hospital. Isn't there a doctor here? Someone run for a doctor." The young woman's glance swept the crowd in appeal. "I'll take care of him. Better get away before the crowd is too large, Miss Frome." "No. It was our machine did it. Oh, here's a doctor."
For an eyebeat it was all clear to me as day. Then I laughed aloud at myself in returning sanity. I was in the twentieth century, not the eighteenth. An imagination so vivid that it read all this from a scrap of paper picked from the gutter needed curbing. I repocketed the chart and went to lunch. But I found I could not laugh myself out of my interest. The mystery of it drew me, despite myself.
"Think so?" she returned airily. "I don't think. I know." Just an eyebeat her gaze met his, with that hint of shy questioning, of puzzled doubt that showed a growing interest. "I wonder," she murmured, and recovered herself little laugh. How she hated her task, and him!
Monster flames leaped at the walls of the gulch, swept in an eyebeat over draws, attacked with a savage roar the dry vegetation. The noise was like the crash of mountains meeting. Thunder could scarce have made itself heard. Rocks, loosened by the heat, tore down the steep incline of the walls, sometimes singly, sometimes in slides. These hit the bed of the ravine with the force of a cannon-ball.
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