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A. Lafferty - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Seven-Day Terror - -Author: R. A. Lafferty - -Release Date: January 7, 2020 [EBook #61128] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEVEN-DAY TERROR *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="331" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>SEVEN DAY TERROR</h1> - -<h2>BY R. A. LAFFERTY</h2> - -<p class="ph1">Things just vanished. It was simple. As<br /> -a matter of fact, it was child's play!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1962.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Is there anything you want to make disappear?" Clarence Willoughby -asked his mother.</p> - -<p>"A sink full of dishes is all I can think of. How will you do it?"</p> - -<p>"I just built a disappearer. All you do is cut the other end out of a -beer can. Then you take two pieces of red cardboard with peepholes in -the middle and fit them in the ends. You look through the peepholes and -blink. Whatever you look at will disappear."</p> - -<p>"Oh."</p> - -<p>"But I don't know if I can make them come back. We'd better try it on -something else. Dishes cost money."</p> - -<p>As always, Myra Willoughby had to admire the wisdom of her -nine-year-old son. She would not have had such foresight herself. He -always did.</p> - -<p>"You can try it on Blanche Manners' cat outside there. Nobody will care -if it disappears except Blanche Manners."</p> - -<p>"All right."</p> - -<p>He put the disappearer to his eye and blinked. The cat disappeared from -the sidewalk outside.</p> - -<p>His mother was interested. "I wonder how it works. Do you know how it -works?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. You take a beer can with both ends cut out and put in two pieces -of cardboard. Then you blink."</p> - -<p>"Never mind. Take it outside and play with it. You hadn't better make -anything disappear in here till I think about this."</p> - -<p>But when he had gone his mother was oddly disturbed.</p> - -<p>"I wonder if I have a precocious child. Why, there's lots of grown -people who wouldn't know how to make a disappearer that would work. I -wonder if Blanche Manners will miss her cat very much?"</p> - -<p>Clarence went down to the Plugged Nickel, a pot house on the corner.</p> - -<p>"Do you have anything you want to make disappear, Nokomis?"</p> - -<p>"Only my paunch."</p> - -<p>"If I make it disappear it'll leave a hole in you and you'll bleed to -death."</p> - -<p>"That's right, I would. Why don't you try it on the fire plug outside?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>This in a way was one of the happiest afternoons ever in the -neighborhood. The children came from blocks around to play in the -flooded streets and gutters, and if some of them drowned (and we don't -say that they <i>did</i> drown) in the flood (and brother! it was a flood), -why, you have to expect things like that. The fire engines (whoever -heard of calling fire engines to put out a flood?) were apparatus-deep -in the water. The policemen and ambulance men wandered around wet and -bewildered.</p> - -<p>"Resuscitator, resuscitator, anybody wanna resuscitator," chanted -Clarissa Willoughby.</p> - -<p>"Oh, shut up," said the ambulance attendants.</p> - -<p>Nokomis, the bar man in the Plugged Nickel, called Clarence aside.</p> - -<p>"I don't believe, just for the moment, I'd tell anyone what happened to -that fire plug," he said.</p> - -<p>"I won't tell if you won't tell," said Clarence.</p> - -<p>Officer Comstock was suspicious. "There's only seven possible -explanations. One of the seven Willoughby kids did it. I dunno how. -It'd take a bulldozer to do it, and then there'd be something left of -the plug. But however they did it, one of them did it."</p> - -<p>Officer Comstock had a talent for getting near the truth of dark -matters. This is why he was walking a beat out here in the boondocks -instead of sitting in a chair downtown.</p> - -<p>"Clarissa!" said Officer Comstock in a voice like thunder.</p> - -<p>"Resuscitator, resuscitator, anybody wanna resuscitator?" chanted -Clarissa.</p> - -<p>"Do you know what happened to that fire plug?" asked officer C.</p> - -<p>"I have an uncanny suspicion. As yet it is no more than that. When I am -better informed I will advise you."</p> - -<p>Clarissa was eight years old and much given to uncanny suspicions.</p> - -<p>"Clementine, Harold, Corinne, Jimmy, Cyril," he asked the five younger -Willoughby children. "Do you know what happened to that fire plug?"</p> - -<p>"There was a man around yesterday. I bet he took it," said Clementine.</p> - -<p>"I don't even remember a fire plug there. I think you're making a lot -of fuss about nothing," said Harold.</p> - -<p>"City hall's going to hear about this," said Corinne.</p> - -<p>"Pretty dommed sure," said Jimmy, "but I wont tell."</p> - -<p>"Cyril!" cried Officer Comstock in a terrible voice. Not a terrifying -voice, a terrible voice. He felt terrible now.</p> - -<p>"Great green bananas," said Cyril, "I'm only three years old. I don't -see how it's even my responsibility."</p> - -<p>"Clarence," said Officer Comstock.</p> - -<p>Clarence gulped.</p> - -<p>"Do you know where that fire plug went?"</p> - -<p>Clarence brightened. "No, sir. I don't know where it went."</p> - -<p>A bunch of smart alecs from the water department came out and shut off -the water for a few blocks around and put some kind of cap on in place -of the fire plug. "This sure is going to be a funny-sounding report," -said one of them.</p> - -<p>Officer Comstock walked away discouraged. "Don't bother me, Miss -Manners," he said. "I don't know where to look for your cat. I don't -even know where to look for a fire plug."</p> - -<p>"I have an idea," said Clarissa, "that when you find the cat you will -find the fire plug the same place. As yet it is only an idea."</p> - -<p>Ozzie Murphy wore a little hat on top of his head. Clarence pointed -his weapon and winked. The hat was no longer there, but a little -trickle of blood was running down the pate.</p> - -<p>"I don't believe I'd play with that any more," said Nokomis.</p> - -<p>"Who's playing?" said Clarence. "This is for real."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>This was the beginning of the seven-day terror in the heretofore -obscure neighborhood. Trees disappeared from the parkings; lamp posts -were as though they had never been; Wally Waldorf drove home, got out, -slammed the door of his car, and there was no car. As George Mullendorf -came up the walk to his house his dog Pete ran to meet him and took -a flying leap to his arms. The dog left the sidewalk but something -happened; the dog was gone and only a bark lingered for a moment in the -puzzled air.</p> - -<p>But the worst were the fire plugs. The second plug was installed the -morning after the disappearance of the first. In eight minutes it -was gone and the flood waters returned. Another one was in by twelve -o'clock. Within three minutes it had vanished. The next morning fire -plug number four was installed.</p> - -<p>The water commissioner was there, the city engineer was there, the -chief of police was there with a riot squad, the president of the -parent-teachers association was there, the president of the University -was there, the mayor was there, three gentlemen of the F.B.I., a -newsreel photographer, eminent scientists and a crowd of honest -citizens.</p> - -<p>"Let's see it disappear now," said the city engineer.</p> - -<p>"Let's see it disappear now," said the police chief.</p> - -<p>"Let's see it disa—it did, didn't it?" said one of the eminent -scientists.</p> - -<p>And it was gone and everybody was very wet.</p> - -<p>"At least I have the picture sequence of the year," said the -photographer. But his camera and apparatus disappeared from the midst -of them.</p> - -<p>"Shut off the water and cap it," said the commissioner. "And don't put -in another plug yet. That was the last plug in the warehouse."</p> - -<p>"This is too big for me," said the mayor. "I wonder that Tass doesn't -have it yet."</p> - -<p>"Tass has it," said a little round man. "I am Tass."</p> - -<p>"If all of you gentlemen will come into the Plugged Nickel," said -Nokomis, "and try one of our new Fire Hydrant Highballs you will all be -happier. These are made of good corn whisky, brown sugar and hydrant -water from this very gutter. You can be the first to drink them."</p> - -<p>Business was phenomenal at the Plugged Nickel, for it was in front of -its very doors that the fire plugs disappeared in floods of gushing -water.</p> - -<p>"I know a way we can get rich," said Clarissa several days later to her -father, Tom Willoughby. "Everybody says they're going to sell their -houses for nothing and move out of the neighborhood. Go get a lot of -money and buy them all. Then you can sell them again and get rich."</p> - -<p>"I wouldn't buy them for a dollar each. Three of them have disappeared -already, and all the families but us have their furniture moved out -in their front yards. There might be nothing but vacant lots in the -morning."</p> - -<p>"Good, then buy the vacant lots. And you can be ready when the houses -come back."</p> - -<p>"Come back? Are the houses going to come back? Do you know anything -about this, young lady?"</p> - -<p>"I have a suspicion verging on a certainty. As of now I can say no -more."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Three eminent scientists were gathered in an untidy suite that looked -as though it belonged to a drunken sultan.</p> - -<p>"This transcends the meta-physical. It impinges on the quantum -continuum. In some ways it obsoletes Boff," said Dr. Velikof Vonk.</p> - -<p>"The contingence on the intransigence is the most mystifying aspect," -said Arpad Arkabaranan.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Willy McGilly. "Who would have thought that you could do it -with a beer can and two pieces of cardboard? When I was a boy I used -an oatmeal box and red crayola."</p> - -<p>"I do not always follow you," said Dr. Vonk. "I wish you would speak -plainer."</p> - -<p>So far no human had been injured or disappeared—except for a little -blood on the pate of Ozzie Murphy, on the lobes of Conchita when her -gaudy earrings disappeared from her very ears, a clipped finger or so -when a house vanished as the front door knob was touched, a lost toe -when a neighborhood boy kicked at a can and the can was not; probably -not more than a pint of blood and three or four ounces of flesh all -together.</p> - -<p>Now, however, Mr. Buckle the grocery man disappeared before witnesses. -This was serious.</p> - -<p>Some mean-looking investigators from downtown came out to the -Willoughbys. The meanest-looking one was the mayor. In happier days he -had not been a mean man, but the terror had now reigned for seven days.</p> - -<p>"There have been ugly rumors," said one of the mean investigators, -"that link certain events to this household. Do any of you know -anything about them?"</p> - -<p>"I started most of them," said Clarissa. "But I didn't consider them -ugly. Cryptic, rather. But if you want to get to the bottom of this -just ask me a question."</p> - -<p>"Did you make those things disappear?" asked the investigator.</p> - -<p>"That isn't the question," said Clarissa.</p> - -<p>"Do you know where they have gone?" asked the investigator.</p> - -<p>"That isn't the question either," said Clarissa.</p> - -<p>"Can you make them come back?"</p> - -<p>"Why, of course I can. Anybody can. Can't you?"</p> - -<p>"I cannot. If you can, please do so at once."</p> - -<p>"I need some stuff. Get me a gold watch and a hammer. Then go down to -the drug store and get me this list of chemicals. And I need a yard of -black velvet and a pound of rock candy."</p> - -<p>"Shall we?" asked one of the investigators.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said the mayor, "it's our only hope. Get her anything she wants."</p> - -<p>And it was all assembled.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Why does she get all the attention?" asked Clarence. "I was the one -that made all the things disappear. How does she know how to get them -back?"</p> - -<p>"I knew it!" cried Clarissa with hate. "I knew he was the one that did -it. He read in my diary how to make a disappearer. If I was his mother -I'd whip him for reading his little sister's diary. That's what happens -when things like that fall into irresponsible hands."</p> - -<p>She poised the hammer over the gold watch of the mayor on the floor.</p> - -<p>"I have to wait a few seconds. This can't be hurried. It'll be only a -little while."</p> - -<p>The second hand swept around to the point that was preordained for it -before the world began. Clarissa suddenly brought down the hammer with -all her force on the beautiful gold watch.</p> - -<p>"That's all," she said. "Your troubles are over. See, there is Blanche -Manners' cat on the sidewalk just where she was seven days ago."</p> - -<p>And the cat was back.</p> - -<p>"Now let's go down to the Plugged Nickel and watch the fire plug come -back."</p> - -<p>They had only a few minutes to wait. It came from nowhere and clanged -into the street like a sign and a witness.</p> - -<p>"Now I predict," said Clarissa, "that every single object will return -exactly seven days from the time of its disappearance."</p> - -<p>The seven-day terror had ended. The objects began to reappear.</p> - -<p>"How," asked the mayor, "did you know they would come back in seven -days?"</p> - -<p>"Because it was a seven-day disappearer that Clarence made. I also know -how to make a nine-day, a thirteen-day, a twenty-seven-day, and an -eleven-year disappearer. I was going to make a thirteen-day one, but -for that you have to color the ends with the blood from a little boy's -heart, and Cyril cried every time I tried to make a good cut."</p> - -<p>"You really know how to make all of these?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. But I shudder if the knowledge should ever come into unauthorized -hands."</p> - -<p>"I shudder too, Clarissa. But tell me, why did you want the chemicals?"</p> - -<p>"For my chemistry set."</p> - -<p>"And the black velvet?"</p> - -<p>"For doll dresses."</p> - -<p>"And the pound of rock candy?"</p> - -<p>"How did you ever get to be mayor of this town if you have to ask -questions like that? What do you think I wanted the rock candy for?"</p> - -<p>"One last question," said the mayor. "Why did you smash my gold watch -with the hammer?"</p> - -<p>"Oh," said Clarissa, "that was for dramatic effect."</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Seven-Day Terror, by R. A. 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Lafferty - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Seven-Day Terror - -Author: R. A. Lafferty - -Release Date: January 7, 2020 [EBook #61128] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEVEN-DAY TERROR *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - SEVEN DAY TERROR - - BY R. A. LAFFERTY - - Things just vanished. It was simple. As - a matter of fact, it was child's play! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1962. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -"Is there anything you want to make disappear?" Clarence Willoughby -asked his mother. - -"A sink full of dishes is all I can think of. How will you do it?" - -"I just built a disappearer. All you do is cut the other end out of a -beer can. Then you take two pieces of red cardboard with peepholes in -the middle and fit them in the ends. You look through the peepholes and -blink. Whatever you look at will disappear." - -"Oh." - -"But I don't know if I can make them come back. We'd better try it on -something else. Dishes cost money." - -As always, Myra Willoughby had to admire the wisdom of her -nine-year-old son. She would not have had such foresight herself. He -always did. - -"You can try it on Blanche Manners' cat outside there. Nobody will care -if it disappears except Blanche Manners." - -"All right." - -He put the disappearer to his eye and blinked. The cat disappeared from -the sidewalk outside. - -His mother was interested. "I wonder how it works. Do you know how it -works?" - -"Yes. You take a beer can with both ends cut out and put in two pieces -of cardboard. Then you blink." - -"Never mind. Take it outside and play with it. You hadn't better make -anything disappear in here till I think about this." - -But when he had gone his mother was oddly disturbed. - -"I wonder if I have a precocious child. Why, there's lots of grown -people who wouldn't know how to make a disappearer that would work. I -wonder if Blanche Manners will miss her cat very much?" - -Clarence went down to the Plugged Nickel, a pot house on the corner. - -"Do you have anything you want to make disappear, Nokomis?" - -"Only my paunch." - -"If I make it disappear it'll leave a hole in you and you'll bleed to -death." - -"That's right, I would. Why don't you try it on the fire plug outside?" - - * * * * * - -This in a way was one of the happiest afternoons ever in the -neighborhood. The children came from blocks around to play in the -flooded streets and gutters, and if some of them drowned (and we don't -say that they _did_ drown) in the flood (and brother! it was a flood), -why, you have to expect things like that. The fire engines (whoever -heard of calling fire engines to put out a flood?) were apparatus-deep -in the water. The policemen and ambulance men wandered around wet and -bewildered. - -"Resuscitator, resuscitator, anybody wanna resuscitator," chanted -Clarissa Willoughby. - -"Oh, shut up," said the ambulance attendants. - -Nokomis, the bar man in the Plugged Nickel, called Clarence aside. - -"I don't believe, just for the moment, I'd tell anyone what happened to -that fire plug," he said. - -"I won't tell if you won't tell," said Clarence. - -Officer Comstock was suspicious. "There's only seven possible -explanations. One of the seven Willoughby kids did it. I dunno how. -It'd take a bulldozer to do it, and then there'd be something left of -the plug. But however they did it, one of them did it." - -Officer Comstock had a talent for getting near the truth of dark -matters. This is why he was walking a beat out here in the boondocks -instead of sitting in a chair downtown. - -"Clarissa!" said Officer Comstock in a voice like thunder. - -"Resuscitator, resuscitator, anybody wanna resuscitator?" chanted -Clarissa. - -"Do you know what happened to that fire plug?" asked officer C. - -"I have an uncanny suspicion. As yet it is no more than that. When I am -better informed I will advise you." - -Clarissa was eight years old and much given to uncanny suspicions. - -"Clementine, Harold, Corinne, Jimmy, Cyril," he asked the five younger -Willoughby children. "Do you know what happened to that fire plug?" - -"There was a man around yesterday. I bet he took it," said Clementine. - -"I don't even remember a fire plug there. I think you're making a lot -of fuss about nothing," said Harold. - -"City hall's going to hear about this," said Corinne. - -"Pretty dommed sure," said Jimmy, "but I wont tell." - -"Cyril!" cried Officer Comstock in a terrible voice. Not a terrifying -voice, a terrible voice. He felt terrible now. - -"Great green bananas," said Cyril, "I'm only three years old. I don't -see how it's even my responsibility." - -"Clarence," said Officer Comstock. - -Clarence gulped. - -"Do you know where that fire plug went?" - -Clarence brightened. "No, sir. I don't know where it went." - -A bunch of smart alecs from the water department came out and shut off -the water for a few blocks around and put some kind of cap on in place -of the fire plug. "This sure is going to be a funny-sounding report," -said one of them. - -Officer Comstock walked away discouraged. "Don't bother me, Miss -Manners," he said. "I don't know where to look for your cat. I don't -even know where to look for a fire plug." - -"I have an idea," said Clarissa, "that when you find the cat you will -find the fire plug the same place. As yet it is only an idea." - -Ozzie Murphy wore a little hat on top of his head. Clarence pointed -his weapon and winked. The hat was no longer there, but a little -trickle of blood was running down the pate. - -"I don't believe I'd play with that any more," said Nokomis. - -"Who's playing?" said Clarence. "This is for real." - - * * * * * - -This was the beginning of the seven-day terror in the heretofore -obscure neighborhood. Trees disappeared from the parkings; lamp posts -were as though they had never been; Wally Waldorf drove home, got out, -slammed the door of his car, and there was no car. As George Mullendorf -came up the walk to his house his dog Pete ran to meet him and took -a flying leap to his arms. The dog left the sidewalk but something -happened; the dog was gone and only a bark lingered for a moment in the -puzzled air. - -But the worst were the fire plugs. The second plug was installed the -morning after the disappearance of the first. In eight minutes it -was gone and the flood waters returned. Another one was in by twelve -o'clock. Within three minutes it had vanished. The next morning fire -plug number four was installed. - -The water commissioner was there, the city engineer was there, the -chief of police was there with a riot squad, the president of the -parent-teachers association was there, the president of the University -was there, the mayor was there, three gentlemen of the F.B.I., a -newsreel photographer, eminent scientists and a crowd of honest -citizens. - -"Let's see it disappear now," said the city engineer. - -"Let's see it disappear now," said the police chief. - -"Let's see it disa--it did, didn't it?" said one of the eminent -scientists. - -And it was gone and everybody was very wet. - -"At least I have the picture sequence of the year," said the -photographer. But his camera and apparatus disappeared from the midst -of them. - -"Shut off the water and cap it," said the commissioner. "And don't put -in another plug yet. That was the last plug in the warehouse." - -"This is too big for me," said the mayor. "I wonder that Tass doesn't -have it yet." - -"Tass has it," said a little round man. "I am Tass." - -"If all of you gentlemen will come into the Plugged Nickel," said -Nokomis, "and try one of our new Fire Hydrant Highballs you will all be -happier. These are made of good corn whisky, brown sugar and hydrant -water from this very gutter. You can be the first to drink them." - -Business was phenomenal at the Plugged Nickel, for it was in front of -its very doors that the fire plugs disappeared in floods of gushing -water. - -"I know a way we can get rich," said Clarissa several days later to her -father, Tom Willoughby. "Everybody says they're going to sell their -houses for nothing and move out of the neighborhood. Go get a lot of -money and buy them all. Then you can sell them again and get rich." - -"I wouldn't buy them for a dollar each. Three of them have disappeared -already, and all the families but us have their furniture moved out -in their front yards. There might be nothing but vacant lots in the -morning." - -"Good, then buy the vacant lots. And you can be ready when the houses -come back." - -"Come back? Are the houses going to come back? Do you know anything -about this, young lady?" - -"I have a suspicion verging on a certainty. As of now I can say no -more." - - * * * * * - -Three eminent scientists were gathered in an untidy suite that looked -as though it belonged to a drunken sultan. - -"This transcends the meta-physical. It impinges on the quantum -continuum. In some ways it obsoletes Boff," said Dr. Velikof Vonk. - -"The contingence on the intransigence is the most mystifying aspect," -said Arpad Arkabaranan. - -"Yes," said Willy McGilly. "Who would have thought that you could do it -with a beer can and two pieces of cardboard? When I was a boy I used -an oatmeal box and red crayola." - -"I do not always follow you," said Dr. Vonk. "I wish you would speak -plainer." - -So far no human had been injured or disappeared--except for a little -blood on the pate of Ozzie Murphy, on the lobes of Conchita when her -gaudy earrings disappeared from her very ears, a clipped finger or so -when a house vanished as the front door knob was touched, a lost toe -when a neighborhood boy kicked at a can and the can was not; probably -not more than a pint of blood and three or four ounces of flesh all -together. - -Now, however, Mr. Buckle the grocery man disappeared before witnesses. -This was serious. - -Some mean-looking investigators from downtown came out to the -Willoughbys. The meanest-looking one was the mayor. In happier days he -had not been a mean man, but the terror had now reigned for seven days. - -"There have been ugly rumors," said one of the mean investigators, -"that link certain events to this household. Do any of you know -anything about them?" - -"I started most of them," said Clarissa. "But I didn't consider them -ugly. Cryptic, rather. But if you want to get to the bottom of this -just ask me a question." - -"Did you make those things disappear?" asked the investigator. - -"That isn't the question," said Clarissa. - -"Do you know where they have gone?" asked the investigator. - -"That isn't the question either," said Clarissa. - -"Can you make them come back?" - -"Why, of course I can. Anybody can. Can't you?" - -"I cannot. If you can, please do so at once." - -"I need some stuff. Get me a gold watch and a hammer. Then go down to -the drug store and get me this list of chemicals. And I need a yard of -black velvet and a pound of rock candy." - -"Shall we?" asked one of the investigators. - -"Yes," said the mayor, "it's our only hope. Get her anything she wants." - -And it was all assembled. - - * * * * * - -"Why does she get all the attention?" asked Clarence. "I was the one -that made all the things disappear. How does she know how to get them -back?" - -"I knew it!" cried Clarissa with hate. "I knew he was the one that did -it. He read in my diary how to make a disappearer. If I was his mother -I'd whip him for reading his little sister's diary. That's what happens -when things like that fall into irresponsible hands." - -She poised the hammer over the gold watch of the mayor on the floor. - -"I have to wait a few seconds. This can't be hurried. It'll be only a -little while." - -The second hand swept around to the point that was preordained for it -before the world began. Clarissa suddenly brought down the hammer with -all her force on the beautiful gold watch. - -"That's all," she said. "Your troubles are over. See, there is Blanche -Manners' cat on the sidewalk just where she was seven days ago." - -And the cat was back. - -"Now let's go down to the Plugged Nickel and watch the fire plug come -back." - -They had only a few minutes to wait. It came from nowhere and clanged -into the street like a sign and a witness. - -"Now I predict," said Clarissa, "that every single object will return -exactly seven days from the time of its disappearance." - -The seven-day terror had ended. The objects began to reappear. - -"How," asked the mayor, "did you know they would come back in seven -days?" - -"Because it was a seven-day disappearer that Clarence made. I also know -how to make a nine-day, a thirteen-day, a twenty-seven-day, and an -eleven-year disappearer. I was going to make a thirteen-day one, but -for that you have to color the ends with the blood from a little boy's -heart, and Cyril cried every time I tried to make a good cut." - -"You really know how to make all of these?" - -"Yes. But I shudder if the knowledge should ever come into unauthorized -hands." - -"I shudder too, Clarissa. But tell me, why did you want the chemicals?" - -"For my chemistry set." - -"And the black velvet?" - -"For doll dresses." - -"And the pound of rock candy?" - -"How did you ever get to be mayor of this town if you have to ask -questions like that? What do you think I wanted the rock candy for?" - -"One last question," said the mayor. "Why did you smash my gold watch -with the hammer?" - -"Oh," said Clarissa, "that was for dramatic effect." - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Seven-Day Terror, by R. A. 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