And Then the Town Took Off

the Earth from sight. For a minute or more t

in a day," Jen Je

," Don agreed. "M

ing about the age of the Earth. I mean th

viously, whoever built it knew well in advance that Superior was going to take off. They also knew h

you mean, with

had cut the end off an orange. The flat part-where the cut was made-i

Cort, that even a child could

e tiny radio under his shirt could have only a vague idea of what was going on. Any little word pictures he could suppl

o the scathing comment and the barbed retort. He imagined she was e

ork of those boobies at the

your

ess, whatever they call it. They just wouldn'

entific malarkey. Old Doc Rubach, D.V.M., was going on about the ultimote being connected to

piece of dark glass that might be a television set, and a gray steel box about the size and shape of a three-drawer filing cabinet. This last was near the big window-wall and had three bl

aid. "Behi

something for the Un-Earthly Act

to it, he will. He undoubtedly is already. In the meantime, I can do

ou conclude from your info

conspiracy-" she began, then sto

Bobby the Bold subpoena everybody up here-every last man-jack o

ophomoric humor makes a big hit with your teen-age blonde. We'd better g

e her a mock bow, then turned for a last lo

Jervis

rted in horror, and as Don's gaze flicked to the screen he had the barest glimpse of a pair of eyes fading with a dissolving image. Then the screen w

ped to the fl

on of P-38's on a reconnaissance flight which resulted in the loss of one of the six World War II fighters in a crash

d told repo

an rise in a body off the face of the Earth. My reconnaissance has shown conclusively that the tow

contact him the moment she had anything to report, in

r, and declared he would demand a probe by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee, of which he is a member. He indicat

y in the Sky," complained today of a rain of empty beer cans and other rubb

anitation official here said, "that the

today were at a loss to explain the strange beha

ic experiments were in progress which could account for the phenom

ommunist plot" was at work were greeted wi

ll

irborne town of Superior began to