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The idea of using foreign proteins on the + human system to repel enemies, is also interesting. Do you get it? + We didn't either until we read the story. Read the yarn and you'll + get it too._ + + +Although Divine intervention in human affairs passed into the realm of +the mythical toward the end of the twentieth or at the dawn of the +twenty-first century, one is almost inclined to give thanks to the +Supernatural for the marvelous efficacy of Dr. Rutledge's discovery and +stratagem which so recently freed us from the Oriental menace. + +A year ago only the Mississippi and the most severe winter in many +generations was staying the complete invasion of the United States. In +an unbelievably secret manner our enemies had for five decades been +developing a scientific offensive against which our laboratories could +not in a short interval protect us. The vast and fundamental discoveries +made during the past hundred years by the Orientals (and now the +heritage of the whole world) can only be compared to the Industrial +Revolution of the nineteenth century. Without warning, through the +discovery of the cause of gravitation, the Mongols practically lifted +their Nangsi metal transports (which were built of a material combining +the lightness of aluminum with the strength and hardness of steel) out +of the sea; and in five days skimmed across the surface of the Pacific. +The whole West lay at their mercy, though we know with what gallantry +their forces were held in check from summer until winter, when the enemy +had reached the Mississippi. + +[Illustration: They were planning details of the final campaign.] + +Of course, one of the surprises which the Orientals had not counted on +was the providential inspiration of Dr. Mernick of the Hopkins, who +devised the now famous Mernickian transformer by which light from the +sun, received through a series of grates, is stepped from the +wavelengths of light into those of electricity. This gave us a sudden +limitless source of power on which the enemy had not counted. It +virtually lifted our forces off the ground and made them almost the +equal of an enemy who had succeeded in neutralizing the gravitational +drag. + +The final and most disastrous card our subtle enemies played was dealt +on the prairies in Nebraska. They themselves were afraid of their weapon +and wanted plenty of space to try it in. I was personally present at its +debut, being at the time in General Sanford's stationary observing +helicopter which, through the agency of the power supplied by a +Mernickian transformer, hung motionless as a bee fifteen thousand feet +in the air. Only the treble hum of the air turbine could be heard +faintly through the transparent walls of the observatory constructed of +the annealed clersite, which has taken the place of the unsatisfactory +glass used by our forefathers. The toughness and tensile strength of +this element, comparable to the best chrome steels, combined with its +crystal clarity, made an ideal warfare observation unit. It was +practically invisible and likewise quite bullet proof. The great +strength of the material in our machine, and the rapidity with which we +could rise and fall, indeed made us difficult prey. In addition to this +we were hanging behind the great electric field that the Radio Defensive +Corps had spread like a screen before our forces, greatly to the +embarrassment of the enemy in the use of his anti-gravitational +machines. + +As we stood at our posts, we saw the great degravitated bombs hurtled +against our lines suddenly come into contact with the fan-like electric +field, somersault a few times and fall. At the edge of the electric +screen the ground was excavated to an enormous depth by the bursting of +these intercepted degravitated bombs, most of which had been projected +from stationary batteries three or four hundred miles behind the enemy +lines. The local batteries bombarding with the old fashioned Sangsi +steel shell were still effective. On the whole, however, from our own +observation of the local front and from the television reports we were +constantly receiving, we judged that the American and Allied Caucasian +forces were more than holding their own. + +General Sanford, the Chief of the Signal Corps, who stood by my side, +grasped my arm, and pointed to the west. Everyone crowded to our side in +excitement. Before we could gasp our amazement, the incandescent spot +which our Chief had mutely indicated on the distant horizon, zoomed in a +blazing arc across our zenith and plunged into the terrain of the +English forces which were occupying the little town of Ogallala about +six miles to our south. We held our breath. What next? + +Only a faint throbbing seemed to pulse in the air above the spot where +the missile sank. I was about to pronounce the diagnosis of "a dud," +when someone cried, "My God, General, they've turned hell loose this +time!" The whole atmosphere for a quarter of a mile radius about the +fatal bomb quivered as over a heated griddle. Even as we remarked this, +the area began to glow cherry red. A deafening thunder assaulted our +ears when to our horror the earth on which had stood the now burning +town of Ogallala, rose a gigantic incandescent ball and shot like a +meteor into the heavens. Our car was a feather tossed in the ensuing +hurricane, but even while we bobbed back and forth there was an +ear-splitting explosion as the land that was once an American village +burst into a blinding blue flare of hydrogen flame twenty-five miles +above us. + +The swaying of the car gradually subsided in the tortured atmosphere, +and a gentle rain began to fall. Ogallala had been chemically "stepped +down" into the most primitive element, combined with the oxygen above +and was condensing back to earth again as a few globules of H{2}O. That +day was a sort of crisis; the enemy had discovered and turned upon us +the power of atomic degeneration! And I, as assistant chief chemist of +the American Army, felt my heart become heavy within me as I soared back +to the Central Laboratory. + + * * * * * + +Even as I watched the advent of the electronic detonator two days +previously the inspiration had come to me. What had happened to the +doomed Nebraskan town had been so obvious. Through some unexplained +agency discovered by the Orientals, the electronic restraint of the +normally stable elements had been removed. In a brief time Ogallala had +degenerated through all the steps of the periodic table until it became +hydrogen, at which point, owing to the terrific air current and +incandescent heat, it had recombined with the oxygen of the air as +simple molecules of water. + +I thought I had a clue as to how it had been accomplished. The Central +Chemical Laboratory was the focus of feverish excitement. The air was +tense with the expectancy of tremendous things. Every scientist there +felt that we were on the verge of discovering the principle of the +Mongols' new weapon. "Give us time!" "Time" was the plea we sent daily +to the Defense Headquarters. "Only six weeks more, only a month," we +begged, "and then we'll make a boomerang out of the enemy's invention." +Anderson, Mahaffey, Dr. Spritz--all the great physicists and chemists of +the present age--labored at my side endeavoring to trick Nature into +giving us that saving secret. + +The television 'phone called my name. I immediately hurried to the booth +and saw General Loomis, the Commander-in-Chief of the American and +Caucasian Armies, standing in his helicopter headquarters. He seemed +haggard and worn. "How much longer, Johnson?" he asked. "The enemy has +pretty well eaten out the country and with the advent of winter and lack +of food, are bending all their efforts to crush us. Besides, we cannot +tell just how long it will be before they begin turning out their new +bomb in other than experimental quantities. Two weeks, I should +estimate, is about all the longer I can hold them." + +"If that is the case, General Loomis," I replied, "we may as well give +up. Two months will see us ready. But two weeks--!" + +I felt a hand laid on my shoulder. Dr. Rutledge, my science chief, had +stepped into the booth behind me and overheard the conversation. + +"General Loomis," Dr. Rutledge spoke, looking for all the world like a +patriarch of olden times, "until five minutes ago what Johnson has just +said would have sealed our fate. But now, I think, I believe, we have +one more card to play. I have only this moment completed a series of +reactions which have resulted (as I calculated they should) in the +production of a new protein, similar in appearance to flour. It should, +although of course I have not yet had time to verify this statement, be +a practical substitute for flour; and indeed, it is my belief that it +will easily be mistaken for that substance. Its particles are laminated +similar to starch, of an identical size, and the nutritive factor should +be greater than that of bread. It is, in short, a new, a foreign protein +never before found in this world of men!" + +"Very interesting, I am sure," replied General Loomis, with a trace of +bitterness and sarcasm in his voice. "Your noble efforts will result in +feeding the yellow devils an excellent artificial fare. They will be +grateful, I know!" + +"Exactly my object, general," Dr. Rutledge replied. He continued +impressively: "You have until now relied upon me largely in the waging +of this war to save the white race from the menace of the yellow. Since +all is lost at any rate, grant me one last effort in behalf of my +country. At all costs, Loomis, hold your present lines for two days, +preparing to suddenly retire to the west bank of the Mississippi. I +leave it to your strategy to make a sudden retreat (which should extend +over a period of at least ten days) appear as if enforced by the enemy +themselves." + +"There should be no difficulty in that direction," General Loomis +interpolated, smiling wryly on the television screen. + +"Once on the west bank," went on Dr. Rutledge seriously, not noticing +the interjection, "make a stand for a day or two and then suddenly +retreat across the river to the east bank as if again forced to do so. +Now, General, two days from this time--before your retreat begins--I +shall, I trust, have your armies all along the lines supplied with my +new artificial, foreign protein flour. This you will leave in the +enemy's hands, which, you have intimated, will be much to their delight. +You will do the same at the stand which for a while you held on the west +bank. But, mind you, let none of your men use any of this perfectly +harmless food. I will personally see to it that you will receive it in +such containers that none will come in contact with your persons." + +"Doctor," Loomis said after staring at the old scientist some time in +astonishment, "except for years of personal acquaintance, I would say +that you were suffering a mental shock. Knowing you as I do, however, I +pray to God you're making no mistake this time. I'll do as you wish." +His figure faded from the screen. + +The next fortnight was one of black despair. I myself doubted on +occasions whether or not the old doctor was mentally accountable--even I +who had trusted him so long. General Loomis and his staff called up +daily to inquire if Dr. Rutledge had any change of plans. As for the +army and the populace, they were one in calling on the President to make +terms with the enemy. The allies truly were on the point of collapse. +All that kept up what morale was left in the chemical division was the +unrelenting demands made on us by Dr. Rutledge to continue to ferret out +the electronic detonator. Until then, he had scarcely bothered with our +work; now he would hear of nothing else. "Today's the Day!" was the +slogan he had displayed above every bench. + +Finally the fatal day arrived. The retreat across the Mississippi was +consummated. This time it was not feigned. The Mongols were hungry, and +their appetites were whetted for more flour such as had sustained them +for the past twelve days. Moreover, new electronic bombs were beginning +to be supplied them. + +My name leapt at me across the room: I was being called by that almost +human instrument, the television 'phone. Both my superior and I hurried +to the cabinet. It was, as we had guessed, Loomis. "It's all up," he +said wretchedly. "The fresh supply of atomic degenerating bombs, for +which the enemy has been holding back, has now arrived. They matched and +neutralized our electric field defense screen just an hour ago, leaving +us at their mercy. You've had your chance, Doctor, and failed. I advise +you both to make your way north and wait until these fiends forget the +inconvenience you both have caused them. As for me, I'm leaving this +instant to offer unconditional surrender in the name of all the allies." + + * * * * * + +It was about ten o'clock in the morning, just after he had transported +all his forces hurriedly to the east bank, and as the Mongols were +occupying the old entrenchments on the west, that General Loomis closed +his conversation with the Chemical Laboratory. He turned to an aerial +officer who stood at attention beside him. "Major Maniu," he said, +"trail a white banner of truce on your plane and tell the enemy I will +parley with them. Tell them that we will serve rations presently to our +men who have worked all night without food or rest, and that if it is +agreeable to them, both sides shall simultaneously discontinue activity +at one o'clock. At that time I shall cross the river to offer them our +terms of surrender." + +The officer saluted and hastened to his near-by plane. General Loomis +ascended into his helicopter to confer with his staff to draw up in +documentary form the surrender, and give the necessary orders relative +to lowering of fire that afternoon. He also spoke to the President and +to the crowd outside the White House, and then began nervously waiting +the crucial moment. About twelve-thirty, however, a remarkable fact +forced itself on his attention. Whereas the allied batteries continued +to thunder away, the fire from the Orientals became irregular and +sporadic. "Celebrating their victory beforehand," the French commander +remarked bitterly to his chief. Loomis nodded. "And getting careless, +too," another of the Staff added as he saw one of the enemy's detonator +bombs disintegrate three or four hundred acres of a Mongolian base +encampment fifty miles to the northwest and shoot it a monstrous blazing +rocket twenty or thirty miles into the midday sky. + +By twelve forty-five the enemy's barrage had fallen completely all along +the line. Our battery nevertheless continued until the set time but +elicited no answer. Exactly at one General Loomis with two aides stepped +into his air-car. He was a picture of grief and despair. Three minutes +late the party landed forty miles across the river before the +headquarters and armored dining hall of the Oriental General Staff. + +Loomis and his officers stepped out of their car and looked about. No +one was in sight. Not even a sentry guarded the mess room door. The +General paced back and forth a few minutes in indecision. + +"Evidently they mean to make us feel our defeat," he said. "They +apparently do not even think it further necessary to observe rudimentary +diplomatic courtesy. Come on, boys, beggars can't be choosers, as the +antique saying goes." He led the way to the dining hall through a window +of which a light was seen shining. + +"Perhaps if we find his xanthic highness after a good meal he will be +inclined to be a bit more lenient," Loomis whispered with a forced +laugh, trying to cheer his glum companions. + +He opened the unguarded door of the hall. An instant later he reeled +back horror-stricken. Instead of a feasting gathering of officers +attached to the Mongolian Staff he saw before a feast of men contorted +in grotesque shapes by some violent death. Many lay beside the table, +some on it, their faces blotched with great, unsightly wheals, their +chests bloated until they seemed about to burst. Only one poor wretch +had any life left in him--he lay exhausted on the floor with great +streams of frothy mucous pouring from his nose and throat. + +A possibility dawned in Loomis' mind. He dashed away to search the other +mess tents, shouting to his aides to follow suit. It was as he guessed: +they had landed in a camp of dead and dying; stricken by some mysterious +power. Hope suddenly surged back into his soul. He felt dizzy and faint. +Could a similar fate have caused the unaccountable silence of the +enemy's cannonade? Even as the thought came to him, he knew it must be +so. His marvelous old friend, Dr. Rutledge, had risen to the need of the +world and crushed the yellow menace. + + * * * * * + +Such, truly, had been the case. In a single hour, through the agency of +a harmless food, the subtle scientist had crushed a nation. The +principle involved had been discovered nearly two centuries before, when +it was well-known that if an animal were injected with a small quantity +of a protein foreign to his body, a subsequent dose a hundred million +times as weak would cause its immediate and violent death. Even the +quantity that might be flying in the atmosphere and become dissolved in +the fluids of the nose or eyes would act as the most virulent of known +poisons. Through the ages, however, the human race had more or less come +in contact with all the proteins in their world and hence rarely became +highly sensitized to any protein occurring in nature. The terrible +toxicity of a protein which had never before occurred in nature and to +whose power mankind had never been even partially desensitized had up to +the time of Dr. Rutledge only entered the minds of a few scientists. His +strategy was the working out of a new maxim: Nature is terrible, but man +makes it more so. + + * * * * * + +Foreign protein sensitization or anaphylaxis was the basis of Dr. +Rutledge's coup. The laws governing this reaction had been more or less +worked out by a group of scientists in the twentieth century. They had +demonstrated that if a guinea-pig or rabbit were injected with the blood +serum of another species, a subsequent dose of an infinitely small +quantity of this substance would cause convulsions, collapse and rapid +death. Inasmuch as there were many proteins in the atmosphere at that +time due to the unrestrained pollination of plants of every description, +it was not surprising that they found as many as ten per cent of the +white race afflicted with a slight pollen sensitivity which showed up +seasonally by causing spasms of the smooth muscle of the respiratory +system, a disease popularly called "hay-fever." + +Since, however, the proteins of the world had always been present, the +human race had, by constantly coming into contact with them, become more +or less immunized to the majority. Only occasionally a case of violent +sensitivity came to light and was recognized as such. Two or three cases +there had been which the old scientist discovered while searching the +archives of ancient medicine and these gave him the clew he needed. + +One was the case of a little girl who had somehow or other become +sensitized to the protein of wasp toxin and who suffered almost +immediate death from anaphylactic "choc" as the result of being stung by +that insect. A second instance concerned a woman who went into violent +asthmatic paroxysms if a mouse entered the room where she was, and whose +skin broke out into large wheals if touched with mouse hair. Finally, +and most outstanding in his mind, was the case of a child who was +thought to be sensitive to the fish protein in glue and who died almost +immediately when the physician testing her had brought a small quantity +of the dry protein into contact with a scratch on her arm. + +These had, however, been rare cases, but they pointed out the method. It +had already been proved over and over again that animals could be +sensitized experimentally by treating them with foreign proteins, +provided that after the initial dose they did not come into contact with +the same protein until after a lapse of about two weeks. If they +happened to do so the first injection or treatment was frequently +neutralized and failed to give the desired sensitivity. + +With the discovery of a new, highly pure and synthetic protein by Dr. +Rutledge the situation with the enemy could be put on a close parallel +with the laboratory condition. The enemy could be fed the protein when +they were in need of food and had little else, but since it was +synthetic, they could not get a second supply until the Doctor was able +to put the fatal meal in their way. + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ April 1956 and was + first published in _Amazing Stories_ January 1930. 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