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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938
Page 19
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19. Retribution *********************************************************** near. The fool will think he is humoring me! By giving myself a larger dose of the drug than I will administer to him, I shall see to it that I revive--in his body-- before he does in mine. Then the doctors, convinced of my insanity, will consider his protestations but the ravings of a disordered mind. They will carry him away to the fate he had planned for me, and I shall be free to go on with my great work! I shall even keep my fortune, since the lawyers will turn it all over to me, thinking I am Vinton! Revenge; at last! August 11, I write this a broken man. This morning, Shelley, in his unfamiliar body, lost his balance and fell against the cabinet in which I had placed the Markley tubes. There was a crash. I rushed over and opened the door. The box the tubes were in had fallen to the floor of the cabinet. I opened the box. They were smashed beyond repair. Unfortunately--how inadequate the word! --only this morning a telegram arrived from Professor Markley, advising me to guard the tubes as I would my life, since he had inadvertently broken the four tubes he had kept. There is left to me only one ignominous course--that of running away. Tomorrow I shall pack and clip away to Markley's, where I may again reach the pinnacle of success I had achieved up to now. . . . * * *
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19. Retribution *********************************************************** near. The fool will think he is humoring me! By giving myself a larger dose of the drug than I will administer to him, I shall see to it that I revive--in his body-- before he does in mine. Then the doctors, convinced of my insanity, will consider his protestations but the ravings of a disordered mind. They will carry him away to the fate he had planned for me, and I shall be free to go on with my great work! I shall even keep my fortune, since the lawyers will turn it all over to me, thinking I am Vinton! Revenge; at last! August 11, I write this a broken man. This morning, Shelley, in his unfamiliar body, lost his balance and fell against the cabinet in which I had placed the Markley tubes. There was a crash. I rushed over and opened the door. The box the tubes were in had fallen to the floor of the cabinet. I opened the box. They were smashed beyond repair. Unfortunately--how inadequate the word! --only this morning a telegram arrived from Professor Markley, advising me to guard the tubes as I would my life, since he had inadvertently broken the four tubes he had kept. There is left to me only one ignominous course--that of running away. Tomorrow I shall pack and clip away to Markley's, where I may again reach the pinnacle of success I had achieved up to now. . . . * * *
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